[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Town-based searches on the OdessaDigitalLibrary

[Richard A. Stein]

Hi Scott
Just go to the following website and search by name.  If you want Volhynia,
select St. Petersburg Archives.
http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/search.html

Dick Stein

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Kletke" <scottkletke at rogers.com>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Town-based searches on the
OdessaDigitalLibrary


> Where can I access the Odessa database if I am not a SGGEE member?
> Scott Kletke
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Krueger" <dabookk54 at yahoo.com>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:15 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Town-based searches on the Odessa
> DigitalLibrary
>
>
> In some research I have been doing lately on my great grandfathers
brothers
> who moved to Volhynia in the 1870s I have realized the nuisance of the
> Odessa database having surnames with different spelling variations. I find
> that doing searches by towns has yielded very fruitful information as you
> can often pull up occurrences of misspelled surnames that you might miss
by
> doing the ordinary surname search. Furthermore, you can virtually see most
> families that lived in each town. Parents often asked other relatives or
> close friends and neighbors to serve as godparents and the geographical
> basis for these interacting families clearly surfaces when one does a
> town-based search. In essence, the town-based search brings forward an
> entire community. This becomes more challenging when a name is shared by
> more than one town in Volhynia.
>
>
>
> Of course towns may show up with different spelling variations so any
> town-based searches should include any known variants to completely pull
all
> records from the database. These variants can be discovered by searching
for
> known surnames in the town and identifying records where the town was
> misspelled.
>
>
>
> Members of SGGEE have the advantage of searching for a town by providing a
> partial name. For example, Grab will bring up all occurrences of Grabina
> and Grabna, both being alternate spellings for this town. The Odessa
search
> engine apparently suffers from the need for a complete name/term to be
> searched.
>
>
>
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