随着历史学家和人口学家共同对教区记录簿发生了兴趣,历史人口学迅速形成了独立的学科,并很快同古典人口史分道扬镳。二十年来,历史人口学的方法论基本上是建立在亨利(Louis Henry)于1956年提出的家庭复原法基础之上的。这个方法的内容有:再现某教区范围内所有的洗礼、结婚和丧葬记录,根据配偶登记卡来复原每户家庭,初步计算生育间 As historians and demographers shared an interest in the diocese register, historical demography rapidly formed an independent discipline and quickly diverged from the classical population history. For more than two decades, the methodology of historical demography has largely been based on the family rehabilitation act put forward by Louis Henry in 1956. The content of this method is to reproduce all the records of christening, marriage and funeral within a parish, restore each household according to the spouse registration card,