What evidence tracks births, deaths, migration, or family formation?
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Test what “disappeared” means
A compact method for separating population change from statistical and cultural erasure.
Four questions
Ask what kind of change the evidence can show.
Did official or everyday categories change?
Who stopped appearing in censuses, history, or media?
What evidence shows continued presence and agency?
Precision rules
Keep each conclusion inside the evidence.
- A declining count is not proof of extinction.
- Intermarriage changes ancestry and identification; it does not make descendants cease to exist.
- A census measures through the categories and questions it provides.
- Invisibility can be an outcome even without a single coordinated plan.
- Do not replace the disappearance myth with an exact population claim unsupported by data.
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