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Transforming an Eighteenth‐Century Archive into a Twenty‐First‐Century Database: The Early California Population Project
Author(s) -
Hackel Steven W.,
Reid Anne Marie
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00429.x
Subject(s) - frontier , population , electronic database , history , database , colonialism , historical demography , genealogy , archaeology , geography , library science , demography , sociology , research methodology , computer science
The Early California Population Project is a database recently completed by research scholars at the Henry E. Huntington Library. The project is part of a wave of new databases that are opening up various regions of Early America for additional study; yet, unlike other databases, the Early California Population Project's records are overwhelmingly of Indians. The database offers new opportunities for historians and anthropologists interested in Indians, Catholic missions, Spanish soldiers and settlers, and family and community formation along the Spanish colonial frontier of North America between 1769 and 1850.