You can get a copy of the entire WZBR database from this page.
Please note that it is © 2004 - 2009
Philip Semanchuk under
a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. The license is short and easy to read; please have
a look at it if you want to share this data with anyone else. The data is
available as a tarball of CSV files,
a PKZIPped package of CSV files and
a a SQLite database.
You're welcome to share these files with others, but you have
to provide the whole package. You're not allowed to send just the births
file, for
example, or the data files without the readme.
This data was last updated on 24 November, 2004.
Tarball and PKZIP Contents
Inside you'll find four files: births.csv, marriages.csv,
deaths.csv, and ReadMe.txt. The first three files are Comma Separated Value files which
are explained below. Readme.txt explains where the files are from and contains a copy of
the license.
CSV files are easy to import into spreadsheet and word processing
programs. For instance, importing these files into
OpenOffice Calc is as simple as
opening the file and checking the "separated by tab" option. The software you
use might want to know that the fields (columns) are separated (delimited) by
tabs (\t) and the lines (rows) are separated (delimited) by newlines (\n).
If the information looks like gibberish and you're using old software to read these
files, it is possible that the program doesn't understand that these are
Unicode (UTF-8) files. Time to upgrade!
The column headings are not contained in the CSV files. They are as follows.
Births
- id, A unique id for each record.
- page, A three-character number that relates this record to one of the page images.
- record, The number of the record on the page (in the leftmost column of the page).
- date_date, The date the event happened.
- house_number
- name, The first name of the child born.
- gender
- legitimate
- father
- father_father
- father_mother
- mother
- mother_father
- mother_mother
- ex, The village where the child was born.
- patrini, The godparents.
- notes, Notes made by the transcriber about the record.
Marriages
- id, A unique id for each record.
- page, A three-character number that relates this record to one of the page images.
- record, The number of the record on the page (in the leftmost column of the page).
- date_date, The date the event happened.
- house_number
- groom, The groom's name.
- groom_father
- groom_mother
- groom_ex, The village where the groom lived.
- groom_age
- widower
- bride, The bride's name.
- bride_father
- bride_mother
- bride_ex, The village where the bride lived.
- bride_age
- widow
- witnesses, Name of the witnesses.
- notes, Notes made by the transcriber about the record.
Deaths
- id, A unique id for each record.
- page, A three-character number that relates this record to one of the page images.
- record, The number of the record on the page (in the leftmost column of the page).
- date_date, The date the event happened.
- house_number
- name, The first name of the child born.
- occupation
- spouse
- father
- mother
- ex, The village where the deceased lived.
- gender
- age
- cause, Cause of death.
- notes, Notes made by the transcriber about the record.