POPLINK - Demographic Data Base

The POPLINK database contains personal records entered from parish registers from large parts of the Västerbotten county and the inland of Norrland. The database covers parish registers from the end of the 17th century until 1950. The personal records stem from different types of parish registers such as catechetical registers, birth and baptism registers, banns and marriage registers, migrations registers, and death registers. These datasets, ranging from birth to death, provides possibilities to link together individuals and generations. The life stories of individuals as well as family histories can be tracked. Moreover, the dataset offers the possibility to study demographical and socio-economic changes over time across different regions and parishes. The purpose of the POPLINK database is to provide detailed individual records from church books between the late 1600s and around 1950 for research. It enables studies on demography, social structures, and historical development in Sweden. POPUM offers data on, among other things, population development, migration patterns, economic changes, industrialization, agricultural communities, small-scale farming, Sámi history, and urbanization. The database is a resource in many areas of research. Not least because of the possibility to link together POPLINK with other modern registers. This means, among other things, that the life sciences can investigate how nature and nurture influence the development of our most common national diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. Within the social sciences and the humanities, the increasing access to personal records brings about an opportunity for new perspectives on the rise of the welfare state and the time that shaped the modern Sweden. POPLINK is a research database, which means that only academic researchers can be given access. In some cases it requires approval from The Swedish Ethical Review Authority.