GO924: Dutch Marriages and Lifespans from 1600 to 1999

924 genealogical files form a database of marriages in the Netherlands from 1600 to 1999. The anonymized dataset includes lifespans, marriage ages, and urban/rural classifications for birth, marriage, and death locations. It was constructed by Utrecht University researcher Corry Gellatly from user-contributed family trees.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical life expectancy based on lifespan data for spouses and their parents.
• Analyzing trends in marriage age over four centuries based on the marriage age variable.
• Studying historical urbanization patterns based on the urban/rural classification for locations between 1600 and 1800.
• Investigating family structure and intergenerational mortality using data on parents' death locations.

Strengths

• Covers a 400-year time span from 1600 to 1999.
• Derived from 924 error-checked genealogical files, suggesting a structured compilation process.
• Includes urban/rural classification for locations between 1600 and 1800 based on a specific population threshold.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to user-contributed genealogical records, potentially favoring certain family lineages.

Provenance

Source

Utrecht University

Collection Method

Constructed from user-contributed family tree (GEDCOM) files from genealogieonline.nl, error-checked and combined using the TreeChecker application.

Time Range

1600 to 1999

Geography

Netherlands