The research was based on the previously established database of victims of World War II and the
time immediately after it, created on the basis of a systematic review of the relevant literature and
archive sources. By means of verification of data from this database on the basis of systematic
reviews of death registers and partly also birth registers, the previously collected pieces of
information were confirmed, amended, corrected or refuted. In many cases new victims were
discovered; persons were excluded from the list of victims that turned out, on the basis of the
review of the registers, to have actually survived the war; and the so-called double entries were
also excluded. Around 60 % of persons from the current list of victims were verifiable, while the
deaths of others had not been entered into the death registers or were not identifiable (for example,
in the cases where the cause of death was not apparent). The verification of data proved to be an
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important research procedure in the efforts to establish as exact and realistic a number of victims
as possible as well as their precise identification. Important new information was acquired about
certain categories of victims, for which very deficient data had previously been collected.
The realisation of the project largely depended on field work; that is, on the reviews of registers in
registry offices as well as local offices. In various areas of Slovenia, throughout the duration of the
project, the project group reviewed civil registers at 31 administrative units, thus concluding the
review of civil registers of all 58 administrative units of the RS. 381 days were invested in field
work, and the rest of the time was spent in order to input entries into the computer database
entitled Casualties among the population in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia during World
War II and immediately after it. The information about the persons checked in the civil registers is
gradually published at the www.sistory.si website
