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To counterbalance these attractive features, there were some formitable obstacles. The archival materials were written in manuscript in Latin and Italian by notarial hands. Besides the language difficulties, the shorthand and abbreviations used by the notaries required diciphering. This is, in addition, a vast secondary literature on this city-state in Serbo-Croatian. Return to main text
The Pacta Matrimonialia are found in the series of the same name. I have used Vols. 1-5. The series does not begin until 1447 and there is a gap from 1464 to 1495. Some of this missing information can be reconstructed from other sources, especially from the Carta Dotalis. The latter are found in the series Liber Dotium Notariae. I have used Vols. 6-10. For the period prior to 1447 I rely on the genealogies published in Irmgard {.Mahnken Dubrovacki Patricijat {\0(Vol. 2)}.}. Mahnken's painstaking research into the Ragusan patriciate of the 14th century contains material from a wide variety of sources. Since the materials she has researched overlap those that I have collected especially for the period from 1440 to 1460, I have been able to elaborate and correct her genealogies in certain particulars. Return to main text
These materials are abstracted from the following series: Testamenta de Notaria Vols 8-32, Distributiones Testamentorum Vols 6-29, Diversa Cancellariae Vols 33-109, Diversa Notariae Vols 11-95, and the Debita Notarie Vols. 12-77. Return to main text
The organization and names of data files have been changed several times as the project developed. This paper describes the files as of March 1986. The original genealogical file was known as RAGUGEN. Return to main text
In a database the collection of data files are logically linked by key expressions without `pointers' or other referencing techniques. In this respect it is independent of any particular applications software. The `field' in a file contains information of a single type. A field may contain such information as the gender of an individual or the date of a marriage. The database described here is a hybrid in that it contains pointers (cf. {.Castro 1985.}. Return to main text
Named after Robert Hackenberg who first outlined the system [.Hackenberg 1967.]. The system I use is virtually identical to that outlined in {.Davis background note {:\017}.}. Return to main text
Patricians belonged to 36 agnatic clans. The number of clans decreased to 33 as the last male members of the Baraba, Bodaca, and Gleda clans disappear from the fifteenth century records. While these clans were not exogamous, most marriages were with nonclansmen. Members of a single clan bore a common surname which was transmitted in the male line. Clan names appear to be of very diverse origin. In very large clans members of different major segments might be known by distinguishing individual surnames. Return to main text
A third purpose is that is permits more compact files. In a database package such as dBase II, the length of each field is fixed. The length must be sufficient to accomodate the largest piece of information to be recorded in that field. The system reserves this space even though only a portion of it may be needed in any single record. Therefore a four digit ID number takes up much less total space than the thirty digit Hackenburg number or about forty digits for given names and surnames if a unique identifier is needed for several different records. Return to main text