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Edition of birth letters from the city archives

Digital edition of Mainz birth letters

Yellowed paper with imprint of city view in baroque frame

During the 2021 summer semester, students enrolled in the "Digital Methods in the Humanities and Cultural Studies" program at Mainz universities worked on a project led by Dr. Monika Barget to process and digitally edit selected birth certificates from the 17th and 18th centuries from the Mainz City Archives' collection of approximately 2,000 documents. In addition, the locations mentioned in the documents were visualized on a map. You can find more details here:

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https://teaching-dhlab.pages.gitlab.rlp.net/geburtsbriefemainz/home/ (opens in a new tab)

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