census_search: Search census records at the Norway Digital Archives
In cstubben/norwayr: Census records and maps from Norway

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) Examples

Formats the Search for Persons in the 1801 census at https://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/ft/sok/1801. Change the year to 1865, 1875, 1900, or 1910 to search other censuses

census_search(year, municipal = NULL, county = NULL, region = NULL,
  first_name = NULL, last_name = NULL, gender = NULL,
  family_position = NULL, marital_status = NULL, occupation = NULL,
  date_of_birth = NULL, age = NULL, notes = NULL, residence = NULL,
  district = NULL, house = NULL, all = FALSE, ...)

`year`	Census year, 1801, 1865, 1875, 1900, or 1910 (other years are partial censuses)
`municipal`	Municipal code, one or more codes like 1638 for Orkdal or c(1638, 1636) for Orkdal and Meldal
`county`	County code, first two letters of municipal code for all parishes in county
`region`	Region code, 1 to 5 for ...
`first_name`	First name
`last_name`	Last name or patronym
`gender`	Gender, m or f
`family_position`	Family position
`marital_status`	Marital status
`occupation`	Occupation or job
`date_of_birth`	Date of birth in yyyy-mm-dd format, use 175* for anyone born in the 1750s
`age`	estimated Age at census
`notes`	Notes
`residence`	Residence or domicile
`district`	Census district
`house`	House number
`all`	Default search gets first page with 50 records, set all=TRUE to download all results
`...`	Other options like `trim_parish` passed to `census_table`

A data.frame with name, residence, gender, birth_date, status, first_name, patronymic, last_name. The last three columns are parsed from name in the html file (first is before a string of tabs, patronym is right after the tabs or last is after tabs AND a space)

Municipal codes in codemunicipal.

Chris Stubben

## Not run: 
  # set all=TRUE to get all 68 Siverts in Orkdal, default is first page only
  census_search(1801, 1638, first="Siv*", all=TRUE)
  # search in Meldal and Orkdal.  Set trim_parish=FALSE to keep parish in residence
  census_search(1801, municipal=c(1636, 1638), first="Lars", last="Siv*", trim_parish=FALSE)

## End(Not run)