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From: Ken Goudey <>
Subject: Re: [DK] instructions (in English) for accessing images at arkivalieronline
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:41:13 -0800
References: <0AFB8505-4ED5-11D9-A96E-000393D6EE36@kinquest.com>
In-Reply-To: <0AFB8505-4ED5-11D9-A96E-000393D6EE36@kinquest.com>
Hi Lisa,
With your permission I will put your instructions on my web site and then
post a link to this list. The link will probably be
HTTP://www.goudey.org/arkivalieronline/
Let me know what you think?
Regards,
Ken Goudey
At 12:08 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My thanks to several people on the list who tested my instructions on how
>to access the images at arkivalieronline recently. Here's the first
>posting to the list...I'll update and repost them periodically.
>
>Have fun,
>
>Lisa
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lisa Petersen
>near Washington, D.C.
>www.kinquest.com
>
>
>The Statens Arkiver is putting images of Danish censuses and church books
>online for anyone to use, free. The URL for what's known as
>arkivalieronline (AO) is <www.arkivalieronline.dk>. There are no
>instructions in English at the web site, so use this guide to help you
>gain access to the images. You must have
>
>a) a browser that allows pop-up windows, at least while you're using the
>site. Mozilla's Firefox allows you to disable its pop-up blocking feature
>for web sites you specify. Also check to see if some of your other
>applications, such as Norton Utilities, block pop-up windows, and if so,
>disable them while you are at AO.
>
>b) a tiff viewer, since the images are tiffs and a viewer will allow you
>to view, enlarge/reduce and print. AO recommends getting a Tiff
>plugin. See <http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/Plugin/default.aspx>; for
>links to 4 tiff plugins; you'll have to see which one can be used on your
>operating system. I happen to have an application, not a plugin, called
>Preview that views, enlarges, rotates, etc. tiffs and other image
>types. After an AO image downloads to my desktop, Preview opens it in
>another window, allowing me to look at the image in Preview while I get
>the next image in my web browser.
>
>c) a username and password. This is now required so AO can prevent people
>from doing massive downloads (hundreds of files), which their server can't
>handle. To get a password, go to
><http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/Login/Opretbruger.aspx>;, select Oprette to
>sign up for a password, wait for a new page. On the new page, type in
>your first name (Fornavn), last name (Efternavn), mailing address, just
>the number and street part (Adresse), zip code (Postnr.), city (By),
>country (Land), your email address (E-mail) and hit Send. You should
>receive an email response in Danish with your email address as your user
>name and a password. Caution - some characters look alike, e.g. lower
>case L looks like upper case I. Copy and paste the password from the
>email into a word processor with large Ariel or Courier font to see what
>the characters are, or always copy-and-paste your password in. At this
>time, there is no way to change the password to something easier to
>remember. If you forget your password, go back to
><http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/Login/Opretbruger.aspx>;, select Glemt
>password, wait for the page to refresh, enter your email address and hit
>send. They will send your password to the email address your provide.
>
>Accessing the images
>
>1. You can login on the main AO page
><http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/default.aspx>;. Type or copy-and-paste
>your email address and password in the upper right, and hit the Login
>button. The page will refresh, and under the Logout button, there should
>be a note "Logget på som your-email-address," meaning logged in as you.
>
>2. Now click on Søg i kirkebøger (church books) or Søg i folketællinger
>(censuses) in the upper left.
>
>3. When the page refreshes, click on Søg i kirkebøger (church books) or
>Søg i folketællinger (censuses) again.
>
>Kirkebøger (Church Books)
>
>4. If you're looking at the kirkebøger, choose the Amt, Herred and Sogn
>from the dropdown menus. The page will refresh after each selection. You
>could also just go down the long list of Sogne (344 parishes as of 14 Dec
>04) and pick the one you want.
>
>5. Then a page with a table of sogn, herred, amt, tekst (links to
>images), fra, til, and F K V D J T A appears. Fra and til are the date
>ranges of the images, F=births, K=confirmations, V=marriages, D=deaths,
>J=register/index, T=moving-in lists, A=moving-out lists. I suspect these
>groups of images came from the same church book volume, but I'm not
>sure. Click on the highlighted Tekst link for the date range and record
>type you want.
>
>6. When the page refreshes, a new dropdown menu will appear above the
>table: Opslag 1, and below it in red, af XXX, where XXX is the number of
>images in the group. To view an image, choose an Opslag from the dropdown
>menu. Here you have to have the tiff plugin installed and the pop-up
>blocker disabled. What happens now depends on your system. On mine, a
>tiff downloads to my desktop and my tiff viewer opens it in a different
>window. During the download to my desktop, a blank window pops up, which
>I can close at any time. Images are usually 175-500K in size and take
>about a minute to download through a 56K modem.
>
>7. Since the Opslag dropdown menu does not indicate what dates and record
>type are on the images, you will have to choose one, look to see what's on
>it, choose another one from the dropdown menu, look at it, and so on until
>you get what you want. Once you get near the date you want, use the >>
>button to get the next image or << for the previous image.
>
>Folketællinger (Censuses)
>
>8. If you want to look at the folketællinger, click Søg i folketællinger
>in the left menu. On the new page, click it again.
>
>9. From the dropdown menus, choose the year (vælg årgang, 1787, 1801,
>1840, 1855 and 1860 available as of 14 Dec 04), choose the land division
>(vælg stedbetegnelse). Etaten=civil service and includes military
>companies, København=city of Copenhagen with the different quarters,
>Købstad=incorporated city such as Odense and Fredericia, Landsogn=parishes
>in the country. After choosing a land division, a new pop-up menu will
>appear, so choose from that whatever it is you are looking for. Then hit
>the Hent Oplysninger button.
>
>10. When the page refreshes, a new dropdown menu will appear: Opslag 1,
>and below it in red, af XXX, where XXX is the number of images for the
>location you chose. To view an image, choose an Opslag from the dropdown
>menu. Here you have to have the tiff plugin installed and the pop-up
>blocker disabled. On my system, a tiff downloads to my desktop and my
>tiff viewer opens it in a different window. Your system may vary. To
>find your family on the census, you will have to go through the images
>one-by-one by going back to the Opslag dropdown menu page and clicking on
><< or >> until you find what you're looking for.
>
>If you've been looking at censuses and want to switch to church books,
>just click on Søg i kirkebøger in the left menu, and vice-versa. Check
>the site frequently, as images are posted sometimes 3 or 4 times a month.
>
>If you have further questions, post them to the Denmark mailing list, and
>mention the computer, operating system and web browser you are using when
>you describe the problem.
>
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