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Work commenced on a project continuing the research conducted between 2012 and 2018 (entitled The Population of the Historical Lublin County, 1594–1900, in the Light of Parish Register Records). For more information, see the About the Project section.

A database containing figures on the natural movement of the population from individual parishes has been made available in the Data section.

A book by Dr. habil. Piotr Rachwał, entitled Parish and Civil Registers (up to 1900) in the Parish Archives of the Lublin Region (Lublin: KUL Publishing House, 2021, 324 pages), has been published. The publication is the result of archival research conducted in the parish archives of the Lublin region between 2013 and 2018. It contains a catalog (with descriptions) of parish and civil registers preserved in the archives.

A book by Piotr Rachwał, The Natural Movement of the Roman Catholic Population in the Lublin Region in the Light of Parish Register Records from 1582 to 1900 [Download PDF], was published by KUL Publishing House. The book was awarded the First Prize of the Stefan K. Kuczyński Competition for the best Polish publication in the field of source studies and auxiliary sciences of history (2020 edition). It was also nominated for the Professor Tadeusz Kotarbiński Prize for the best humanities book of 2020, as well as for the Franciszek Bujak Prize for the best publication in economic and social history.

As part of the ongoing research, project participants took part in the following conferences:

• “Cultural Heritage: Values, Protection, Promotion” – Kalisz, September 11–12, 2014 (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz).
  Paper title: Historical Parish Register Records in Parish Archives of the Lublin Region.
• “The History of Christianity in Sources” – Kraków, December 4–6, 2014 (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków).
  Paper title: Parish Registers and Civil Status Records as Sources for Research on the Catholic Population of the (Arch)diocese of Lublin.
• “Childhood and Old Age in Historiography” – Lublin, May 21–22, 2015 (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin).
  Paper title: The Elderly in the Lublin Region in the Light of Parish Register Records from the 17th to 19th Centuries.
• “Spatial Aspects of Historical Demographic, Social, and Economic Research (up to 1945)” – Pobierowo, October 21–23, 2015 (University of Szczecin).
  Paper title: The Impact of Geographical Factors on the Registration of Natural Population Movement in the Lublin Region from the 17th to 19th Centuries.
• “(Religious) Space, Place, and Media” – Groningen, April 14–16, 2016 (COST Action).
  Paper title: Multilayered Spatial Analysis of Religious and Demographic Data for Historical Eastern Europe.
• “Third Congress of Eighteenth-Century Researchers” – Poznań, September 15–17, 2016 (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań).
  Paper title: The Application of Back Projection Methods in the Study of the Demography of the Lublin Region in the Pre-Statistical Era.
• “The Role of the Church in Polish History. Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (up to 1918)” – Warsaw, November 24–25, 2016 (Central Archives of Historical Records).
  Paper title: Parish Registers in the Parish Archives of the Lublin Region: The History of the Holdings.