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

[gpvjem]

    You can view a modified  form of the Volhynian Odessa data base without the search capability on the SGGEE web site.  On SGGEE's home page at www.sggee.org   ..click on "Surname Database Links".
    The searchable databases as described by Karl are indeed in the members only pages of the SGGEE web site.

John Marsch

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  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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