{"id":7474,"date":"2019-02-16T02:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T11:33:10","slug":"quick-tips-repeat-your-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/quick-tips-repeat-your-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick tips: Repeat your searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repeating our searches in the Digital Archives can eventually&nbsp;catch that elusive ancestor<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We all have those branches in our family tree that we are unable to follow because our ancestor probably moved to the parish from an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing comes up when we use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/en\/search\/persons\/advanced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced search feature<\/a> in the Digital Archives.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wall-1013682_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wall-1013682_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2027 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wall-1013682_640.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>A search through the scanned records is a search for the proverbial needle. There is, however, some comfort to this problem:&nbsp;Every week new content is transcribed and made searchable in the Digital Archives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going to the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/en\/newest\/?format=tab_ftr&amp;sc%5B0%5D=kb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newest published<\/a>&nbsp;we can see all the church records that have been indexed in January of this year. This is 123 sections from various church books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember that we are talking about&nbsp;<strong>sections<\/strong> (parts) of a church book. If we look at the first entry (at the time of this writing)&nbsp;<strong>Church book from \u00c5snes parish, Gjes\u00e5sen local parish 1890-1929 (0425P),&nbsp;<\/strong>we can see that the second to last line indicate that this is the &#8220;Born and baptised&#8221; section of this book. Other sections of the book may not yet be transcribed and searchable.<\/p>\n<p>Learning that so much new content, on a regular basis, is added to the Digital Archives, means repeating our searches regularly, may finally break through our brick wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeating our searches in the Digital Archives can eventually&nbsp;catch that elusive ancestor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-norwegian-sources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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In my article Make your searches more effective, you know there are ways to eliminate irrelevant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Norwegian Sources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Norwegian Sources","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/norwegian-genealogy\/norwegian-sources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Quick-tips2.jpg?fit=940%2C590&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Quick-tips2.jpg?fit=940%2C590&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Quick-tips2.jpg?fit=940%2C590&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Quick-tips2.jpg?fit=940%2C590&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4819,"url":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/a-picture-of-our-ancestor\/","url_meta":{"origin":7474,"position":3},"title":"A picture of our ancestor?","author":"Martin Roe Eidhammer","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Pictures can appear in the strangest places. This might be one place where we don't want to find one of our ancestors The Norwegian Digital archives has a lot of information for us to search. This is both indexed information, but also quite a lot of scanned material. \u00a0Among the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Historical photos&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Historical photos","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/category\/history\/historical-photos\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/prison-2403953_640.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/prison-2403953_640.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/prison-2403953_640.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8442,"url":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/effective-searches\/","url_meta":{"origin":7474,"position":4},"title":"Effective searches","author":"Martin Roe Eidhammer","date":"January 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A few hints on how to do effective searches Here are some links that lead to interesting articles on doing effective searches for ancestors. 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