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. By clicking on one of the flags flag 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 all the volumes of registries, which contain records of births, marriages, deaths, or registers for the searched locality within all parishes. 7. Choose the register type and time frame you wish to search.
 * Narození or Geborene--births/baptisms
 * Oddaní or Getraute--marriages
 * Zemřelí or Gestorbene--burials/deaths

8. If the register contains an index, this fact is indicated by the time span on the second line, written in italics. 9. Click on the button at the far right:  "Anziege"(German), "Zobrazit" (Czech), or "Show"(English). If you do not see a button, the images are not yet available. This takes you to the digitized images. 10. 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