[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Importance of diacritic letters

[MIKE MCHENRY]

I'd put my money on inconsistent data entry. My Irish surname has to be
searched with and without a space between the MC and HENRY at some sites.

 


 
MIKE


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Ingram
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Importance of diacritic letters

Last week I was seaching on the Praziad database and was surprised to
discover a search for Gabin had no results.  By copying and pasting  Gabin
with the diacritic  the search result brought up the list I was looking for.
They have changed things, a tad frustrating.
http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en

Rose Ingram
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry Frank 
  To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org 
  Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 10:00 AM
  Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Importance of diacritic letters


  Even seasoned researchers learn new things from time to time. This issue
came up for me this weekend.

  Diacritic letters are those with a symbol attached to them. In German this
would typically be the umlaut. In Polish there are several including the L
with a slash through it, some vowels with hooks underneath or a dash above,
etc. Here follows what I have learned using the L with a slash as an
example.

  Some websites are smart enough to interpret L with a slash (I will show it
further as L~) as a plain L. So if you search for Lodz (which in Polish is
actually L~odz) in either the LDS Family Search site or the Pradziad Polish
Archives site, you will get numerous results. However, this is not
consistently true.

  This weekend I was searching for available records for Bl~onie, a town a
short distance west of Warsaw. As I had always done, I entered "Blonie" in
the search box and got few to no results on both sites. Several of those
hits were for other locations which I was not interested in. But, when I
entered "Bl~onie" as the search term, I got hits from both sites. I now know
which microfilms to order.

  It is possible to use special keystrokes to achieve diacritic letters but
we often forget the code for them. If you use GOOGLE Translator, you will
find that each language comes up with a little keyboard that holds the
special characters you need. Just copy and paste them into the applicable
search box. OR, just open any Polish language website and copy and paste
your special character from there.

  Jerry

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