Article 2025
Authors / editors: Ewelina Wałach
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article examines marriages contracted in Pstrągowa between 1851 and 1914. It presents the early history of the parish, the gradual demographic changes, and the succession of parish officials. A separate section is devoted to the source material, describing its location, acces…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2025.47-06 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Jakub Dobrzyński
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article examines marriage in the Podlasie Catholic parish of Lapy from 1919–1939. It considers the occupations of the grooms, the age at which the couples married and the seasonality (monthly and weekly) of marriages. The source for the article was the Łapy parish registers k…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-07 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Paweł Pietrowcew
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
In the article, I discuss the seasonality of marriages, conceptions and first conceptions in early modern communities from the territory of present-day Poland. I looked for the influence of the Catholic liturgical calendar there. The source basis was the data published so far in …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2023
Authors / editors: Piotr Rachwał
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The objective of the article is an attempt at a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the “incidental” material that is present in the pages of parish registers. This source is characterized by interdisciplinarity, but is most often used by genealogists and historical demograp…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2023.45-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Jarosław Roman Marczewski
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
Population censuses from before the second half of the 18th century are rare in Poland. Therefore, an exceptional find in the parish archives of the former Latin rite Chełm diocese is the confessional register from Bończa, dating from 1728–1750. Its publication, which is the incl…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2022.44-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Elena Crinela Holom, Nicoleta Hegedűs
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
Our research explores issues related to the process of classifying causes of death, using information from parish registers of burials included in the Historical Population Database of Transylvania (HPDT), and covering the period between 1850 and 1920. In the first phase, causes …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2022.44-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Radosław Gaziński
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article aims to show the value that Protestant parish registers kept in the State Archives in Szczecin have for demographic research. The paper will also examine the internal structure of the Pomeranian and New Marchian parish registers, showing the changes that took place in…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2020.42-07 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Jakub Dobrzyński
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents weddings in the parish of Płonka Kościelna in the years 1826– 1864, on the basis of parish registers residing in the parish archive. It contains basic issues such as the age of the betrothed and their marital status. Special attention was paid to the question…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2019.41-06 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Sabina Rejman
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents deaths in the Rzeszów parish between the years 1876–1913, based on the parish register. Attention was paid to facts, which could confirm (or deny) the process of the first demographic transition. This took place in Galicja at the turn of the 20th century and …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2018.40-11 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Radosław Gaziński
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The main purpose of the paper is to familiarize readers with the parish registers kept by the pastors of the Calvinist (French) commune in Szczecin. They allow us to follow changes in the number of births, marriages and deaths among the French community in the city for 220 years …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2018.40-05 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Sabina Rejman
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents the question of the popularity of Christian names children were baptised in the urban-rural church parish in Rzeszów at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of parish registers. The following problems have been analysed: the number of births in the …
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-10 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Konrad Kołodziejczyk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents a demographic description of reconstructed families in the Parish of Nowy Korczyn in the second half of the 18th century. The description has been made thanks to the method of family reconstruction recognised in demography, created by Louis Henry, which consi…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-04 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Piotr Rachwał
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article presents the current state of research into vital events in the Region of Lublin and identifies the research problems which were connected with parish registers, the basic source in the research of that kind. Henryk Wiercieński is considered the forerunner of that res…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2016
Authors / editors: Konrad Kołodziejczyk
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article contains a demographicdescription of the ancient Polish familyexemplified with the parish of NowyKorczyn in the second half of the 18th century.The content of the article has beendetermined by the continuity and relativecompleteness of the records in the parishregiste…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2016.3.38-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189
Article 2016
Authors / editors: Vladimir Vladimirov, Dmitriy Sarafanov, Anna Shchetinina
Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article examines the main features of the “New Historical Demography” which developed in Russia during the 1990s. The authors analyze factors and trends in social science and the humanities that have influenced the formation of this new research strand and review the main pro…
DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2016.1.38-01 · ISSN: 0079-7189