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From top to bottom
Event and persons. For example: birth on 13 September 1826. Below that the persons with their role: father, mother, child. Click on a name to search for that person.
Source citation. The archive, the source type, the place, the period, the inventory number and the record number.
Origin. When the archive last updated the data and when it was published on Open Archives.
Buttons. View on source website, report an error, download data, add to favorites, add comment and share this page.
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Related documents. Other records and information about the same persons. You see these when you are logged in.
Comments. Additions and corrections from other researchers.
Scan. The image of the original record, if the archive has supplied it.
Context. For example the weather on the day of the event, an explanation of the source type or information about a profession.
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
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