[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Town-based searches on the Odessa DigitalLibrary

[Scott Kletke]

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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