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In this paper we present a method of parsing unstructured textual records briefly describing a person and their direct relatives, which we use in the construction of a browsing tool for genealogical data. The records have been created by researchers who are currently digitising a collection of historical archives stored at the Abbaye de Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. The string 'Beatrix, daughter of Johannes Trona, of Saillon' is a typical example of a record. We wish to annotate every term (word and symbol) in our records with a label which describes whether the term is a name (e.g.

Many genome-based research projects include familial
relationships, such as pedigrees, with genomic data
records. To protect anonymity when sharing family
information, data holders remove, or encode, explicit
identifiers (e.g. personal name). In this paper,
however, we introduce IdentiFamily, a software
program that can link de-identified family relations to
named people. The program extracts genealogical
knowledge from publicly available records and
ascertains the re-identification risk for specific family
relations. We find robust genealogies on current

This paper describes hybrid name matching algorithms developed to provide nominal data linkage within English parish register data. LIG2 has been shown to perform as well as conventional matching algorithms found in the literature, while its probability version LIG3 provides sufficient flexibility to be included in a Nominal Data Linkage Workbench which allows other dimensions e.g. geographical space, and historical time to be included in the linkage/matching process. The paper reports some initial findings on implementing such a Workbench.

In this paper we describe past experience and outline current
directions in performing record linkage over large genealogical
databases.