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

[Gary Warner]

Scott,

You can view all the St. Petersburg Volhynia data that you can see on the 
Odessa (or pixel) site on the SGGEE website, even if you are not a member 
of SGGEE.  Look at the links to St. Petersburg birth, marriage and death 
records on http://sggee.org/Databases.  The only features that you cannot 
access as a non-member of SGGEE are the advanced search for partial place 
names, or partial surnames.  In the member section is also a separate St. 
Petersburg database that is organized by the route that the pastor took in 
collecting the records.  That database is particularly useful in 
discovering the correct spelling of the name of a village (each entry lists 
the place again, so all spellings of the same place are located one after 
the other), and also what villages are near each other by virtue of the 
fact that the pastor visited a certain village immediately before or after 
another named village.

Gary Warner
SGGEE

At 11:23 AM 1/28/2004, gpvjem wrote:
>     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, Grabwill 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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