[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Volhynian village - Slabutkaj ?

[Jerry Frank]

At 06:47 PM 14/01/2003 -0500, Dale Mattis wrote:

>I tried the sneaky route - I tried to search the St. Pete records on the
>"pixel" by using the film number for a search term (intending to then
>use my browser to search for the page number) - didn't work.  I'm not
>familiar with SGGEE's database of St.  Pete records - can IT be searched
>by film number rather than name?


Gary already answered the part about the SGGEE version.

I have used a form of your "sneaky route that worked but it will take 
time.  I manually did a browser search for 3 page numbers - the one for the 
entry in question, and the ones immediately before and after.  I noted the 
sequence number and associated village for all those.  You can then figure 
out the order and solve the problem.  You will run into trouble however if 
you have to find, for example, page #188 on film #1881234 cause it will 
stop at every occurrence of "188".   If the sequence number is high - i.e. 
1123 - you could search for before and after numbers.  However, this 
doesn't work well with lower numbers as you would get too many irrelevant hits.

An ideal solution would be the ability to download the file into a 
spreadsheet where you could manipulate and sort the data in many ways.  To 
date I have not figured out a way to do that.  The best I have come up with 
is downloading to a word processor using 11 x 14 paper in landscape mode, 
Courier New font type, and 10 point font size.  All the columns will line 
up nicely if you do that.




Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca