1. Digitizing Handwriting with Automated Methods: A Pilot Project Using the 1990 U.S. Census Manuscripts • Trent Alexander, University of Michigan; Jonathan Fisher, Stanford University; Katie Genadek, University of Colorado Boulder.

2. Using Hand-Writing Recognition to Auto Index the US Census Records • Mark Clement, Brigham Young University; Joseph P. Price, Brigham Young University.

3. Handwriting Text Recognition & Word Spotting Techniques to Build Individual-Level Historical Demographic Databases. The Barcelona Case. • Joana Maria Pujades Mora, Open University Of Catalonia & Center For Demographic Studies, Universitat Autònoma De Barcelona; Alícia Fornés, Computer Vision Center; Josep Lladós, Computer Vision Center; Miquel Valls Fígols, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Gabriel Brea-Martinez, Centre for Economic Demography-Economic History Lund University.

4. I-Balsac: Completing Families with the Help of Automatic Text Recognition • Helene Vezina, Projet BALSAC, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Jean-Sebastien Bournival, Projet BALSAC, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Christopher Kermorvant, Teklia, Paris and Laboratoire LITIS, Université de Rouen; Marie-Laurence Bonhomme, Teklia, Paris.