The Register of Kolomyia Greek Catholics of 1763 as a Form of Libri Status Animarum (historical and demographic potential)

The aim of the work is to clarify the potential of the Libri status animarum as a source of historical demography based on the analysis of the 18th century parish register created in the parish of St. Archangel Michael in Kolomyia, from the fonds of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine. The methodology of the research is based on the theoretical and methodological achievements of historical demography in studying the natural population movement in Galicia at the end of the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – the 1760s–1770s; methods of research on the natural population movement were used (aggregative method; method of reverse reconstruction of civil status acts), in particular population structures according to sex, age and civil status (coefficients of masculinization/feminization, fertility/marriage/mortality; indicators of the declared age of parishioners, index of Child-woman ratio); the classification scheme of family structures of the some named Cambridge Group (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure). The scientific novelty lies in the introduction of the 1763 register into scientific circulation, the external and internal analysis of this type of Libri status animarum as a source of historical and demographic characteristics of the faithful of the parish of St. Archangel Michael in Kolomyia, their gender, age and anthroponymics features. Conclusions. The register of parishioners of the church of St. Archangel Michael in Kolomyia in 1763 allows us to carry out demographic characteristics of the urban society of Kolomyia, in particular the belonging of the townspeople to the Union Church, to normalize the sex-age structure of parishioners, in particular the child population and the population of active age (in particular, childbearing age), based on the types of family households to determine individual social groups of the urban population in the light of demographic indicators, the specifics of the structure of confessionally mixed families. Using the historical and demographic potential of the register of 1763 to adjust the socio-historical dimensions of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) population of early modern Kolomyia.