Genealogical Sources in Economic History 2024

Genealogical Sources in Economic History 2024

Hosted by the Department of Economic History, LSE

Organised by Neil Cummins and Eric Schneider (LSE)

3 & 4 June 2024, LSE

https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/HED/Workshops/Genealogical-sources-in-economic-history

Workshop programme

3rd June

10am-12noon: Migration

Guillaume Blanc, University of Manchester “Malthusian Migrations”

Andrea Colasurdo, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research “Long term trends in transnational kin networks in Europe and the US: 1700-1900”

Miriam Manchin, University College London “Fields and Foreign Lands: Pre-industrial Climate Risk and International Migration”

Tianning Zhu, LSE “Kinship Networks and Persisting Outmigration Patterns: A Case Study of 19th and Early 20th Century Guangdong, China”

12.15-1.30pm: Inheritance

Tommaso D’Amelio, Université Libre de Bruxelles “Inheritance and Migration: Evidence from 19th Century Italy”

Matt Curtis, Southern Denmark University “Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment”

Xizi Luo, LSE “Ethnic Similarities and Disparities in Intergenerational Mobility during the Qing Dynasty, 1614-1854”

12.30-4pm: Marriage and Wealth

Erling Häggström Gunfridsson, Umeå University “Detecting Inbreeding, Consanguinity and Endogamy using Swedish Registers”

Auke Rijpma, Utrecht “Family Trees and Taxes: Marriage and Wealth in the Cape Colony”

Felix Selgert, Universität Bonn “The survival of the richest in early modern Germany”

4.30-5.15pm: Keynote

Carol Shiue, University of Colorado “Long-run Longitudinal Data from Chinese Genealogies for Family Research”

4th June

10am-12noon: Sources and Bias

Sijie Hue, Renmin University of China “Unlocking Historical Insights: Exploring Chinese Demography with the Chinese Genealogy Database”

Stéphane Jettot, Sorbonne “The commercialisation of genealogical data in the 18th century book market”

Nathaniel Darling “The nature and magnitude of bias in complete crowd-sourced genealogies”

Jim Oeppen, Southern Denmark University “Ascendant Genealogies as a Source for Demographic and Genetic Studies: some estimates of bias and incompleteness”

2.15-1.30pm US and UK

Adrian Haws, Cornell University “Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project”

Alice K. Adams, University of South Carolina “Changing Spatial Connections in the US from 1779 to 1930: A genealogical view”

Aurelius Noble, LSE “The Persistence of the Aristocracy: Financial and Social Measures, England and Wales (1858-1907)”

2.30pm-4pm: Health

Jan Kok, Radboud University “Genealogical explorations in anthropometric history, Texel island, The Netherlands, 1790-1940”

Thomas Baudin, IESEG School of Management “Historical life expectancy in Africa - new evidence on trends and major mortality crisis from online genealogies”

Saverio Minardi, University of Bologna “Historical Patterns in the Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan and Longevity: A Research Note on the United States, 1700-1900”

4.30-5.15pm: Keynote

Gregory Clark, Southern Denmark University “Genealogy as an instrument for Social Science investigation”

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