{"id":4673,"date":"2017-06-10T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2020-01-06T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T09:00:29","slug":"digitalarkivets-find-source-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/digitalarkivets-find-source-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitalarkivet’s “Find source feature”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an edited and expanded look at the re-designed Digitalarkivet’s “Find source feature”
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After the re-design, it seems like the “Find source” feature has a more important role as an entry point for searches in the Digitalarkivet. \u00a0I, therefore, decided to edit and expand my article “I’m totally stuck”. (And give it a more informative title \ud83d\ude42 )<\/em><\/p>\n

In the previous layout of the Digitalarkivet, the “Find source” was one of many (sometimes confusing?) ways to enter the available sources. After the re-design, the “Find source” feature has a more important role as an entry point to the sources. I think this is good as I suspect that some were\/are searching Digitalarkivet only by way of the <\/span>Advanced person search.<\/a> <\/span>This search feature is a great tool, but it does have limitations. One of the most important limitations is the fact that not all Norwegian sources are yet transcribed and indexed,<\/strong>\u00a0thus information available only as scanned images will not show up among our search results.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As there were many people with the same or similar names, I think it is good to have some sort of idea as to what geographical area our ancestors came from. This will give us less irrelevant hits. You might want to have a look at my article “Find Norwegian place names”<\/a> <\/span>if you need to get the geography sorted out. Other relevant articles are “Old boundaries in Norway<\/a>”\u00a0<\/span>and “Former municipalities in Norway”<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, let’s take a look at the “Find source” feature<\/p>\n

You can enlarge all the pictures in this article by hovering the mouse over them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0opening page in Digitalarkivet<\/a><\/span>, we start by going to “Find source”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This brings us to the “Find source page”<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This page has a text search box at the top. In the illustration, we can see that I have typed in “Ve\u00f8y” as I will use this parish as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n

The page has several tabs with filters we can use to narrow our searches:<\/span><\/p>\n