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A Methodology for Reconstructing Complex Puzzles in Multiple Dimensions without a Prior Vision of the Whole Image: A Case Study: The Genealogical History of the Entire Jewish Population of the Polish Town of Pinczow in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Journal of multidisciplinary research (Miami Gardens, Fla.), 2020-03, Vol.12 (1), p.69-96
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Miami: St. Thomas University
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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We have developed a new technique for the systematic analysis of civil registration records in a typical Polish town during the period 1810 to 1912. We have applied the technique to the Jewish population of Pinczow, 5,000-strong by 1912. We extracted more than 27,000 birth, marriage, and death records and reconstituted 1900 family histories with the aid of a set of systematic rules, partially computerized, which allows one to make a 1:1 mapping of the subset of pre-1826 records (that did not employ surnames) to the partially overlapping subset of the remaining records, which did use surnames. Mapping requires agreement on the basis of several criteria. Total consistency and lack of ambiguity are hallmarks of the resulting success. The algorithm not only allows one to establish family trees leading as far back as 1700 but also permits one to simultaneously conjecture surnames, where needed, on the basis of those that descendants eventually adopted. This symbiotic process succeeds only because of the application of the algorithm on a massive scale. One can apply the method to any town of similar size, and one can use the results to study sociological behaviour and town history. In the case of Jewish Pinczow, this study also demonstrates an advance in Rabbinic genealogy.