Identifying People in the Past
20 December 2014 Nominal record linkage—"the process by which items of information about a named individual may be associated with each other in a coherent whole"— is an issue historians and IT specialists have wrestled with for nearly a half-century. ...
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Citing Legal Registrations
8 December 2014 Across centuries of recorded history, many classes of people have had to legally register themselves—voters, military-aged men, free people of color in slave regimes, aliens during a time of war, and "just plain folk" on the occasions of their births, marriages, and deaths.
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