Example
1:
Searching for a place, for instance: |
| 1 |
Click
in the text box and type in union |
| 2 |
Press
Search |
| 3 |
After
a pause notice that you will see something on the left of the screen
like "You have found 131 records from the full archive of 25200" |
| 4 |
If
you want to refine the search then click on, for instance, work |
| 5 |
On
the next screen choose mining |
| 6 |
Notice
that the number found will have been greatly reduced |
| 7 |
To
view the records that feature mining work and the
word union click View results |
| 8 |
On
the top bar you will see a white (inactive) and a black arrow (active).
Click the active arrow to see the second page of thumbnails |
| 9 |
Any
thumbnail with a yellow spot underneath it has hotspots
(named points) on it. |
| 10 |
Click
a thumbnail. |
| 11 |
Clicking
on the image makes it larger/smaller |
| 12 |
Using
the arrows moves between the records you have found. |
| |
|
Example
2:
If,
for instance, you want to find all the records featuring family
wedding records between 1945 and 1955 then you: |
| 1
|
Click
on the search icon |
| 2 |
Click
on People |
| 3 |
Click
on Family. You will then be able to see how many
records feature families. |
| 4 |
Click
on Date |
| 5 |
Click
in the year box and enter '1950' in the year box
as this is the middle point in the period of interest. |
| 6 |
Click
the single question mark ? |
| 7 |
Enter
'5' in the space for +-Year. This
tells the computer to look for all records within 5 years each side
of 1950 |
| 8 |
Click
Finished You will then be able to see thumbnails
of records feature family wedding and have a date between 1945 and
1955 |
| 9 |
Click
Buildings, then Religious, then
Finished |
| 10 |
Click
on View results to see one of these records |
| 11 |
*
*
*
*
*
|
To
move to other pages of thumbnails (if there is more
than one page) click on the arrows at the top of the screen
Records with hotspots will have a yellow spot underneath
their thumbnail
To look at larger versions of the pictures click
on the image
Click on the show the 
hotspots button to show (or hide) hotspots. Hotspots
do not work in Netscape.
If there is a reminiscence 
icon then click to read it. |
| |
|
Starting
a fresh search
To
start a new search click clear and the previous search
will be forgotten. |
To search for
a piece of text put the word in the text search box. This box is
only visible when nothing else has been searched for, If the box
is not visible then choose clear first.
Note:
Words entered into the freetext search box are treated as being
added together so that, for example, a search for fruit
might return 21 records, market get 255, but fruit
market get 274 hits. Remember that this means that a record
mentions fruit OR market. Only
some records actually have both words in them.
Words of three
or less characters are ignored.
|
icon which leads to page-specific help.