General comments on codes

Names in the *.uni files are as written in the original data and not tokenized. Names in the *.w files are tokenized, 5 characters for baptismal and place names, 10 characters for surnames; however, some untokenized names are left in the *.w files at their original length, in special fields. These will be clear from the field lengths in the *.w.format files. "fname" means first or baptismal name, "lname" means last or surname.

"Book" means the catalog number of the original record book in the Archive of Croatia. "Page" is the page in that book.

Binary (yes/no) variables such as the legitimacy of a birth are coded 1 for positive, 0 for negative. Other codes are indicated in the format files.

The website files do not include the "comment" codes, which were primarily used to alert us during data entry.

"Parish" in the *.uni files is inherent in the file name. In the *.w files it is indicated by the initial letter of the parish name.

Users please note that parishes begin and end recording for different events at different times and that there are occasional gaps in the data where events were not recovered.


When you display a data file in your browser, you can download it by saving it to a local file. All data files are straight ASCII text files. They vary in size from less than a kilobyte to more than 14 gigabytes. Consult the table below before downloading. Read the *.format files first.

*.uni files. 21 files for 7 parishes x 3 events plus 3 codebooks

*.w files. 3 files, one for each event type across all 7 parishes, plus 3 codebooks