Recovering Identities from the Judicial Archives of Quebec
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Abstract
Abstract: Under the rigorous marriage regime of Quebec, two patterns of evasion have left puzzles in the nineteenth-century archives: an annual cohort of newborns registered "of unknown parents" and a perennial population of women whose husbands are "absent from this province and in parts unknown." We explore the circumstances under which some of the "unknowns" made themselves known. By mobilizing a network of support for judicial recognition, they recovered or extended their personal agency. Soundings in the guardianship records (Tutelles et Curatelles) for Montréal offer insights into the social contexts of family abandonment, the challenges of survival without status, and routines of ad hoc management by authorities of church and state. Abstract: Dans le cadre du régime matrimonial rigoureux du Québec, deux pratiques d'évasion ont laissé des traces dans les archives du XIXe siècle : une cohorte annuelle de nouveaux-nés enregistrés « de parents inconnus » et la pérennité d'une population de femmes dont les maris sont « absents de cette province et en des lieux inconnus ». Nous étudions ainsi les circonstances qui ont amené ces « inconnus » à se faire connaître. En mobilisant un réseau de soutien en vue d'une reconnaissance judiciaire, ces personnes ont pu retrouver ou étendre leur agentivité ou pouvoir d'agir. Les recherches effectuées dans les registres de tutelle (Tutelles et Curatelles) de Montréal offrent un aperçu des contextes sociaux liés à l'abandon familial, des défis de la survie sans statut et des routines de la gestion ad hoc par les autorités de l'Église et de l'État.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".