Pat Johnson and Jim Wood conducting research in Orkney, Scotland

Pat Johnson and Jim Wood are conducting research on the Northern Islands of Orkney, Scotland during the Fall 2009 semester. This research is part of an ongoing NSF-funded project that investigates changes in population, settlement, land use, and migration flows from c. 1735 to the present. They will present a paper titled "Dissolution of extended-family households in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851-1901" at the 2009 meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) in Marrakech, Morocco.