Denmark becomes a leader in historical life course data

Via Link-Lives, you can find the life course of many families, e.g. the Harboe family pictured outside their house in 1895. Photo: Unknown photographer, Copenhagen City Archives

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Danish National Archives and the Copenhagen City Archives are compiling historical life histories for all Danes from 1787 to 1901. The starting point is 64 million entries from censuses, church books and burial records.

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