Historical reconstitution of Varaita Valley population 1770-1970.
The reconstitution of the real structure of the population in individuals, families and genealogies, obtainable from the nominative acts through specific techniques mostly prepared by historical demographers, allow also the biologist of human population, a real comparison of the modalities with which the structure of a population has modified in the course of time and those with which the common pool of genes has been transmitted from generation to generation. In this paper the author summarizes the characteristics of the starting data collected from the registry records of Varaita Valley (Cuneo, Italy) beginning from 1770 to 1970; elucidates the methods used in the different steps of reconstitution (reconstruction of individual vital history, reconstruction of families, reconstruction of genealogies); and presents a short description of the results obtained in the historical reconstruction of the Varaita Valley population.
D000531:Altitude; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005828:Genetics, Population; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy