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When genealogical data from a record is displayed on a website of an archive, the names are usually (web)links, so you can easily and quickly search for that name. Open Archives shows that a record can be linked to many different sources of information, so the records become enriched. Links to search actions Open Archives…

One can daydream about the ideal genealogical search engine for an archive. After this, you could e-mail your suggestions and wait until the archive (or their software supplier) to see the light and get the budget, you could complain, or just let it rest. Or you just take the challenge yourself. Based on a list…

Genealogical data contain a lot of place names. These place names sometimes get misspelled or noted incompletely which often means the original place can’t be uniquely identified any more. Time for some attention to the quality of place names in genealogical publications! Unambiguously determining the place name Let’s say one of your ancestors died in…