The UC Croatia Project
This site is under construction
04.I.2004
History
of the UC Croatia Project
The UC Croatia Project was conceived by E. A. Hammel in the
early 1980s with financial support at various points 1983-03 from the
American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Slavic and East
European Studies at U. C. Berkeley, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, the National Science Foundation, the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and logistical support
throughout from the Department of Demography at U. C. Berkeley.1
The project was initiated in the spirit of comparative social analysis to explore the differences in demographic behavior between otherwise identical peasant populations living under civil vs. military serfdom before and and after emancipation, and between populations of different ethnicity but under the same feudal regime, on the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier c. 1700-1900. Planning began with conversations between Hammel, Frank Dubinskas (an anthropology doctoral student at Stanford who had worked in the region under Hammel's supervision), and Dr. Olga Supek (then of the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb). In 1983 Hammel began work in archives in Vienna, Zagreb, and Budapest. This work was facilitated by the advice and cooperation of Michael Mitterauer, Rainer Münz, Wolfgang Lutz, Joseph Eimer, Rudolph Andorka, and Tamas Farago in Austria and Hungary. The majority of work unfolded in Zagreb, with the active assistance of the staff of the State Archive of Croatia, particularly Dr. Josip Kolanović (later Director of the Archive) and the encouragment of Vladimir Stipetić, Alica Wertheimer-Baletić, and Jakov Gelo of the Faculty of Economics. Most particularly it was assisted by staff and logistical support from the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, under the directorship of Dr. Dunja Rihtman-Augustin. Jasna Čapo at that Institute, who later took her doctorate in Demography at Berkeley, played a leading role in compilation and recording of the data, assisted by Dubravka Mindjek and others. The basic collection of parish data took a number of years of effort, supervised by Čapo in Zagreb. Hammel is indebted to Prof. Vlado Ivir and Charlotte Ivir for hospitality and support. Initial efforts at family reconstitution were undertaken in Fortran by Ruth Deuel, with assistance from Čapo, later modified by Marcia Feitel. Final efforts at reconstitution, using the Perl language, were begun by Hammel with the advice of Carl Mason about 1996 and improved and finalized by Aaron Gullickson starting about 1998.
The final version of this website will contain all of the
originally transcribed data, in standardized format, the linked
reconstitution data, and the Perl code used in the linkages. Readers of these materials should note
that the original manuscript data and their unmodified transcription are
the property of the State Archive of Croatia, or the Republic of
Croatia, or the Bishopric of Zagreb.2
The processed data are the property of the Regents of the University of
California and are in the public domain for legally permissible
noncommercial purposes only. Genealogists should note that nominal
data linkages are not free of error.
That said, the scholarly community is encouraged to make use of these data.
The following links provide access to the
documents. All of the data and format files are straight ASCII text. You
can save (download) any of them to your local machine by using "Save
As...", or right-click, or command-click (Macintosh), depending on your
browser. You should check the file size before downloading. Some files
are quite large; for example, birth.w contains over 112k records and has
over 14 gigabytes.
- Map of Slavonia and
the study region
- Data
- Basic
Data
- The basic data (records of baptisms,
marriages, and burials) from 7 parishes of central Slavonia c.
1700-1900, uniformly formatted to overcome changes in the way records
were entered in different periods in different parishes. These are the *.uni files. There is a
separate file for each parish and each type of record, e.g. baptisms in
parish X.
- The same data reduced to fields thought essential to nominal record linkage. For example, the name of the officiating priest is not included. Names are tokenized to standardize spelling. The data are in three files, one for each type of event, but data from all parishes are included. For example, there is one file for all burials instead of seven. These are the *.w files. Most researchers will use these files.
- Linked data, based on the latest iteration of our nominal linkage procedures.
- Special data sets used in particular
analyses.
- Codes and Procedures
- Concordances of the tokenization of baptismal names, surnames, and place names.
- Perl scripts (by Aaron Gullickson) for nominal data linkage.
- Publications
relevant to and arising from these data and procedures. Some are given
as references, others to downloadable pdf files.
Note 2: Parish records up to about 1848 were copied from the State Archive of Croatia. Parish records after that date were collected from police stations in Slavonia. Some ancillary information was obtained from the archives of the Bishopric of Zagreb. Information on libri status animarum from the parish of Cernik were copied from the books in the Monastery of Cernik.
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