General help
Always three characters in the name field
Birthplace not available before 1845
Not all entries have
information about sex
KIPnr can replace district, parish and year
Truncation
search/ wildcards?
You can search with full name or use wildcards:, One _
substitutes one character and a % substitutes al characters
in a word. The program adds % before and after the search
criteria in the top field
No hits
A lot is still to be transcribed. Look in the
summary to see what is
in the database. The counties in
Sydslesvig and Holsten can
be seen in this list.
Too many hits
When you are searching for a name the query is made in such
a way that by searching for 'Hans' you will also get Hansen,
Johansen, Hansine etc. If you want to avoid this then
remember to begin or end a name with a space.