User:Hanna5974/sandbox/brno

Step-by-Step Instructions
Illustrated instructions are available in the FAQ section of the website. You must initially register for free at Acta Publica: New user account

1. Go to: Acta Publica: Moravském zemském archivu v Brně (Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno). 2. In the upper left corner, choose English, Czech, or German language. 3. Here is the most commonly used search option: The first field of the search page will be labeled "Der Name des Dorfes"(German), "Návez obce" (Czech), or "The name of the city"(English). Here you will enter the name of the town or parish you wish to study.
 * This will be the name of the Catholic or other religious parish which held jurisdiction over your ancestors' home town. It is occasionally in a different, nearby town. To determine that parish, use the GenTeam Free Gazetteer.
 * [[Media:1-Genteam_Gazetteer-Instruction.pdf|GenTeam Instructions]].
 * Also, by entering a partial spelling of town, you will generate a drop-down menu of locations containing those letters, from which you can select a desired town.

4. The second search field gives a different option of first selecting a type of record (produced by a specific religion or government office), followed by the parish name: "Wählen Sie den Urheber Typ"(German), "Typ pudvoce" (Czech), or "Originator name"(English).
 * A drop-down menu gives originator options to select. By clicking on the up and down arrows in the field, you will generate a drop-down list of different originators. For help translating the list, see Czech Genealogical Word List.

5. Next, click on the "Search" button at the far right: "Suche"(German), "Vyhledat" (Czech), or "Search"(English). 6. Subsequently, you are shown a list of all the available registers which contain records of births, marriages, deaths for the searched locality. Each line of the list shows the available years in one of the columns. Column titles:
 * Narození or Geborene--births/baptisms
 * Oddaní or Getraute--marriages
 * Zemřelí or Gestorbene--burials/deaths

7. If the register contains an index, this fact is indicated by the time span on the second line, written in italics. 8. When you see the record you wish to search,  click on the button at the far right:  "Anziege"(German), "Zobrazit" (Czech), or "Show"(English). This takes you to the digitized images. If you do not see a button, the images are not yet available. 9. To work with the digitizer itself, you can use tools to enlarge the image to full screen size, reduce it again (house symbol), rotate the image, move the image, or enlarge and reduce it