Schedule – The Systematic Linking of Historical Records

Time	Speaker
09:00	Angela Cunningham, Enabling geographies of militarism: using individual civilian and US WWI military records to link home and front
10:00	Jean-Sebastien Bournival et al, Comparing information from vital events to census data in Saguenay 1852-1911
11:00	Break
11:15	Jeanne Cilliers et al, Record Linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel
12:15	Lunch and orientation to the University of Guelph
12:45	Ron Goeken et al, Evaluating the Accuracy of Linked U.S. Census Data, 1870-1880: A Household Linking Approach
13:45	Mats Berggren & Maria Larsson, Group linking and the evaluation of multiple linked Swedish censuses
14:45	Break
15:00	Özgür Akgün et al, Probabilistic linkage of Vital Events in Scotland using familial groups
16:00	Luiza Antonie et al, Bias, accuracy & sample size in the systematic linking of Cdn historical records
Evening	Restaurant reception and dinner

Time	Speaker
09:00	Francsico Anguita & Diogo Paiva, Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands into American censuses, 1850-1940
10:00	Alexander Persaud, Non-western name matching with (proto) administrative data from Fiji
11:00	Break
11:15	Björn Eriksson, False positives & faulty estimates: Linked census data & bias to Swedish social mobility estimates
12:15	Lunch
12:45	Chad Gaffield, The Deep Complexity of Historical Change, the Deep Complexity of Research Collaboration
13:45	Trygve Andersen, et al. Linking 19th century individuals and farms for Norway: update
14:45	Break & Change Rooms
15:00	Catherine Massey et al, How well do automated linking methods perform? Evidence from the Life-M Project
16:00	Shari Eli et al, Marrying the right man: Effects of cash transfers on behavior and outcomes of poor mothers
Evening	Drinks at University Club, no formal dinner plan

Time	Speaker
09:00	Tom Dalton et al, Creating longitudinal synthetic data to provide ‘gold-standard’ linked data sets for comprehensive linkage evaluation
10:00	Ahmad Alsadeeqi & Alasdair Gray, Systematically corrupting data to assess data linkage quality
11:00	Break
11:15	Elisabeth Engberg & Maria Larsson, How much do link metrics matter?
12:15	Lunch
12:45	Chuck Humphrey, The Longterm Stewardship of Canada’s Historical Census Microdata
13:45	Peter Baskerville, Mobility studies: The importance of timing and sources
14:45	Break
15:00	Kees Mandemakers & Gerrit Bloothooft, Linking Dutch marriages into pedigrees over 5 generations, 1795-1938
16:00	Hamish Maxwell-Stewart et al, Inter-generational Trajectories of Occupation and Stature for Prisoners and Soldiers