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The 2nd type refers to possible socio-professional determinations in the establishment of marital strategies. It contains the following: 1) Rural professions 01. those who appear in documents at the category: colonist, day-labourers, ploughmen, etc.; 02. those who appear in documents at the category: farmers, gardeners and treasurers, considered as peasants with land over 3 ha. 2) Urban professions'. 03. those who represent the servant categories in the city: servants, shepherd, etc; 04. those who belong to the handicraft world: bricklayers, journeymen, shoemakers, bell ringers, etc; 05. those oriented towards modem professions with industrial character: workers at the railway, etc.; 06. those who could represent the top in the economical, administrative and cultural departments of the localities in those times: teachers, tax collector, innkeepers, photographers, etc.

From the beginning it should be specified that the problem of mixed marriages determined in the epoch multiple controversies between the representatives of different confessions. The laws adopted in 1894 and the establishment of the registrar’s offices of the state tried to end the controversy between confessions by imposing the state’s control upon this phenomenon. This study involves multiple limits and difficulties that start from eventual mistakes of registering, changing the place of residence, of divorce after a short period of time from the registering, of not knowing the total number of marriages in a parish when there are no registers of marriages. One has to take into account the social “nets” where people live and which influenced them and put pressure in their marital option. Inside these “nets” the ethnic, confessional or socio-professional factor acts weaker or stronger'.

From a methodological point of view we have divided the researched material into 5 chapters structured in 3 series (before 1880; 1881- 1889; 1901- 1911) and 2 witnesses (1800-1900). When analysing the series, we have proceeded to the centralisation of the information on parishes and on years, adding the two types of grids mentioned above. In the witnesses’ case, we have proceeded to a more complex study due to a vaster documentary material. In their case, we benefited the information of “Recensământul din 1800”1 2, “Recensământul din 1900”’ and of

1 There are plenty of models for such studies in the Western literature, see the collection Annales de Demographie historique; N. Wrigley, Categorical Data Analysis for Geographers and Environmental Scientists, London, Longman, 1985.

2 *** Recensământul din 1880. Transilvania (coordonator Traian Rotariu), Cluj-Napoca, Editura Staff, 1997.