PARESv3 : PArish REgistry Survey − Historical Census Table Dataset (19th, 20th centuries) − France

PARES Dataset v3

PARES (PArish REcord Survey) contains 535 images of handwritten census tables for years ranging from around 1650 A.D. until 1850 A.D..They come from two French cities, Vic-sur-Seille (French department of Moselle) and Echevronne (French department of Côte d'Or). While they mention very ancient times, the documents are handwritten transcriptions of even older documents and are quite recent, copied from original documents during the 1950's and 1960's for demographic studies led by the INED in France (Institut National des études démographiques − National Institute for Demographic Studies). These copies were made by only a few different writers.

In this updated version of the dataset, each table row has been carefully annotated and transcribed. Please note that for each row transcription, we have specified the attribute to which each value corresponds.

We published a paper, The PARES Database: Information Extraction over Historical Parish Records, in which we better describe the dataset and the tasks it's possible to run on it.