Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia
Studies on displaced persons often suffer from a lack of data on the long-term effects of forced migration. A register created during 1960s and published as a book series ‘Siirtokarjalaisten tie’ in 1970 documented the lives of individuals who fled the southern Karelian district of Finland after its...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/65212 2023-05-15T17:00:09+02:00 Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia Loehr, John Lynch, Robert Mappes, Johanna Salmi, Tuomas Pettay, Jenni Lummaa, Virpi 2017-12-20 application/pdf https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212 https://doi.org/10.23979/fypr.65212 eng eng the Family Federation of Finland https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212/28467 https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212 doi:10.23979/fypr.65212 Copyright (c) 2017 John Loehr, Robert Lynch, Johanna Mappes, Tuomas Salmi, Jenni Pettay, Virpi Lummaa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Finnish Yearbook of Population Research; Vol 52 (2017); 59-70 1796-6191 1796-6183 births digitization databases [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3056] displaced persons Finland forced migration marriage [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2790] mobility [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p252] occupations (professions) [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1179] register information info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.23979/fypr.65212 2020-07-01T22:45:28Z Studies on displaced persons often suffer from a lack of data on the long-term effects of forced migration. A register created during 1960s and published as a book series ‘Siirtokarjalaisten tie’ in 1970 documented the lives of individuals who fled the southern Karelian district of Finland after its first and second occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and 1944. To realize the potential value of these data for scientific research, we have recently scanned the register using optical character recognition (OCR) software, and developed proprietary computer code to extract these data. Here we outline the steps involved in the digitization process, and present an overview of the Migration Karelia (MiKARELIA) database now available to researchers. The digitized register contains over 160000 adults and a wide range of data on births, marriages, occupations and movements of these forced migrants, likely to be of interest to researchers across disciplines including demographers, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, historians, economists and sociologists. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* karelian Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 52 59 70 |
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Studies on displaced persons often suffer from a lack of data on the long-term effects of forced migration. A register created during 1960s and published as a book series ‘Siirtokarjalaisten tie’ in 1970 documented the lives of individuals who fled the southern Karelian district of Finland after its first and second occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and 1944. To realize the potential value of these data for scientific research, we have recently scanned the register using optical character recognition (OCR) software, and developed proprietary computer code to extract these data. Here we outline the steps involved in the digitization process, and present an overview of the Migration Karelia (MiKARELIA) database now available to researchers. The digitized register contains over 160000 adults and a wide range of data on births, marriages, occupations and movements of these forced migrants, likely to be of interest to researchers across disciplines including demographers, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, historians, economists and sociologists. |
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Loehr, John Lynch, Robert Mappes, Johanna Salmi, Tuomas Pettay, Jenni Lummaa, Virpi |
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Loehr, John Lynch, Robert Mappes, Johanna Salmi, Tuomas Pettay, Jenni Lummaa, Virpi |
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Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia |
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Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia |
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Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia |
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Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia |
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Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia |
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newly digitized database reveals the lives and families of forced migrants from finnish karelia |
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https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212 https://doi.org/10.23979/fypr.65212 |
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https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212/28467 https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/65212 doi:10.23979/fypr.65212 |
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Copyright (c) 2017 John Loehr, Robert Lynch, Johanna Mappes, Tuomas Salmi, Jenni Pettay, Virpi Lummaa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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