POPUM - Demographic Data Base

The POPUM database contains personal records entered from parish registers from the areas around Linköping, Sundsvall, large parts of the Västerbotten county and the inland of Norrland. The database covers parish registers from the end of the 17th century until the end of the 19th century. 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 POPUM database is to provide detailed individual records from church books between the late 1600s and around 1910 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.