This search form can be used to indentify the subscribers of early modern stock companies.
Besides filtering for specific personal attributes, you can also narrow down your search results based on parameters of time and place.
It is also possible to look only for those individuals who occupied a specific position within a company, or only those that invested at least (or at most) a sum of your choice.
Notes:
- You do not need to fill out every search input! Simply use those that are interesting for answering your own question(s).
- Most sources do not reveal all parameters, which leads to "unspecified" entries.
- There is no option to enter days when searching for a specific date, because the searchfield would then require you to provide one, even if you do not have this information. Searching for a month is a quick way to narrow your results down to a fairly managable number, especially when paired with other parameters. Using the date range you might be as specific or as general in your date search as you wish.
- When defining a date range, make sure to always set the starting date to the last day of the month prior to the first month you are interested in; e.g.: if you wish to search for subscriptions/stock trades/etc. between the 1st of August 1720 and the 1st of November 1720, the first date must be the 31st of July 1720. This is because the database automatically sets the day to "00" if it is unknown. This means that entries from August for which the day is unknown will not be found if you begin your search on the 1st.
