What this corpus shows
Three research questions, answered by counting the corpus already published.
Published scope: 1500-1800. 34,990 records · 212,889 mentions
Snapshot from 11 August 2026 · hash e8a202c7cc03.
Development
How did they develop?
Methodological caveat
This curve measures published records, not population itself. Its rise may reflect real community growth as much as more intensive transcription of the registers over the corpus’s most recent decades, and this count alone does not tell the two causes apart.
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- Saint-Sauveur
- Sainte-Catherine Bethléem
- En Kerem
- Custodie de Terre Sainte — S. Salvatore
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76 records with no date cannot be broken down by decade and do not appear in this chart.
Survival
How did they survive?
Methodological caveat
This curve shows published deaths, not actual mortality. A peak can be amplified by a parish more thoroughly transcribed for that period, or masked where transcription is less advanced elsewhere: no peak in a given year does not prove the absence of a crisis.
Scroll to see 1500 → 1800
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118 deaths with no known year are not shown on this curve.
Social ties
What were their social ties?
Methodological caveat
These figures count role mentions in the records (godfather, godmother, witness), not reconstructed people: the same person may appear more than once. These mentions are not currently linked to reconstructed people in the published snapshot.
What did they experience?
This question awaits an extension of the corpus that does not exist yet: a reference layer for the historical events the communities lived through. It cannot be answered by a simple count on the records published today.