How
to Use Steve Morse’s One-Step Search form
for
the
Indexed
Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names
extracted
from Kremenets District Documents
The
Indexed Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names
has more than 375,000 entries extracted from various documents and
other resources relating to Jews of Kremenets District towns.
The Concordance is an Index. Each entry consists of six
columns: Surname (derived from Hebrew/Yiddish entries and
Russian/Polish entries), Given Name, Town associated with the
entry, Source Document, and the Location in the Source where
the name can be found. Since each name may be spelled in many
ways, locating a particular name and all its spelling
variations can be difficult. To ease this problem, we have
applied Steve Morse’s One-Step search application to our
database. This enables you to do a variety of searches:
·
“is exactly” for entries that
are spelled exactly as you input them
· “sounds like” for entries
that sound like the name you have input … using the
Beider-Morse Soundex system
·
“contains” for entries that
contain the name you have input … especially useful for
compound or double names
You
can search any of the 6 columns in the database either singly
or in combination. All columns except Town Name use the three
search options. The “town name” search allows you to select a
town from a pop-up list.
In
place of full (and lengthy) source descriptions in the
database, entries in the Source and Location in Source columns
use abbreviations. Each
Source entry links to an explanation of the abbreviation that
is in our document, “Introduction and Guide to the Indexed
Concordance …”. Click on a Source entry and a page in
that document will appear. This page explains how to interpret
the Source and Location in Source abbreviation that you
selected.
The
“Introduction and Guide” document fully explains the
contents of the database and, in most cases, tells you how to
obtain the original document and/or a translation of it.
Another useful document on our website is, “How to use the
Indexed Concordance.” You can download both documents
from our Kremenets District Research Group Kehilalinks website:
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/master-surnames.html
It
will be well worth your time to read these documents.
Here
are a couple of tips for using the search form. Besides the
obvious options that you see on the screen, you can display
the entire Concordance by leaving all fields blank. Notice
that there is an option on the search form for number of hits
per page. Although you can type any number into the form, if
you type in 9,500 or more, the system will give you an
incomplete first page and will not offer an option to go onto
the next page. Requesting 9,000 hits per page or less works
fine. If you encounter a problem, reduce the number of “hits
per page” that you request.
To
learn more about Morse’s One-Step Search applications, point
your web browser to:
http://www.stevemorse.org/onestep/onestep.htm
Adam
Bronstein, a member of our Group developed the Concordance
search application for us. We are deeply indebted to him for
lending his time and skill to this effort. And, of course, we
are most grateful to Steve Morse for developing the search
tool, for making it freely available and for patiently
providing assistance in implementing it.
Ronald
D. Doctor
Co-Coordinator,
Kremenets
Shtetl CO-OP/Jewish Records Indexing-Poland
an
activity of the Kremenets District Research Group
Portland,
Oregon
31
August 2009