Working group for population registers
The working group population register (AKVZ) is a group of historically interested, volunteers (non-profit, non-registered association).
The members and employees have set themselves the goal of transferring and digitizing the results of the official, but handwritten census records from the past 250 years in the Latin script corresponding to today's traffic custom.
This historical and personal cultural asset is accessible to the interested public and is available worldwide via the Internet.
The first large-scale census only took place in the Duchy of Schleswig in 1769 (excluding estate and monastery districts). Censuses were initiated by the governments of the time and carried out for the first time nationwide in 1803 in the entire Duchy of Schleswig and Duchy of Holstein (first general census in Schleswig-Holstein). In 1819 also in the Prince Diocese of Lübeck and the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg , consisting of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The last surviving population registers of this North German region date from 1864. All lists of persons from the surveys carried out later in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein were destroyed immediately after their statistical analysis by the Berlin central government. The census carried out by the British occupying forces in 1946 can be seen as the only exception for Schleswig-Holstein.
Most of the records from 1769 have been lost. The records of the population censuses from 1803 to 1864 are almost completely preserved in the state and state archives in Schleswig , Copenhagen , Hamburg , Oldenburg and Schwerin .
Here the work is the AKVZ to: This archive material , in handwritten old cursive hand , are the AKVZ in the now common Latin transcribed and fed into a database. Since the working group was founded in 2002, more than 200 employees of the AKVZ have managed to make around 4,000 censuses with over 2,200,000 personal data records available (as of February 1, 2020).
aims
- To transfer (transcribe) the population register into a script that can be read today and to make it available in digital form as a database on the Internet.
- The interdisciplinary collaboration between the historical and genealogical promote research.
Cooperation partner of the AKVZ
Archive:
- Schleswig-Holstein State Archives
- Imperial Archives Copenhagen
- State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- State Archives Oldenburg
- State Main Archive Schwerin
- Dansk Data Arkiv
- Genealogical Society of Utah
Historical research:
- Working group for economic and social history of Schleswig-Holstein
- Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History