Talk:Czechia Opava Land Archive Finding Aid

I was unable to get the links to the arkiv to open

Archive links
Links worked fine on two computers at the FHL, though I had to install Flash and IE 8 on one of them. You should also check to see if your JAVA is up to date. I just tested the links on my home computer and they work fine. Be advised that the Internet connection to the server they are using and about 5% of the time the image will fail to load after the page header is received. I put a note at the head of the section about Flash.

Searching on the Archive
I am particularly having difficulties searching for older records on the matriky.archive.cz site. My ancestors were from the town of Vratimov. When I search in the box next to the word "filter", the records for Vratimov come up, but they only go back to 1856. I have found many ancestors in these records, but I would like to take it back further.

However, if I search for Vratimov in the search box next to "place", many other responses come up - older volumes, mostly from the 1700's and early 1800's. But I don't know how to search them. I can't find Vratimov specifically, instead there are many other names of cities. Browsing through the books, I can't find anything that looks remotely close to Vratimov. I am getting discouraged.

I have read and reread the instructions for searching on the Introduction page of the site, but I still do not understand what the difference between the two search methods are.

Could somebody please edit this section with details on how to search the archives site effectively? I don't mind going through the volumes and finding page numbers that correspond to my ancestors' hometown; it seems that is what others have done on the previous page. But I don't even know how to find Vratimov.

Help.

Hi! I just happened to have a watch on this page so I was notified that you made this comment on the Talk page. Otherwise, these comments could go unnoticed for a long time. I suggest that you copy parts of this question and post them at forums.familysearch.org in the East European area. That way someone will give your specific question about Vratimov some attention. I'll look at your request to add details about searching, but I can't get to it for a couple of weeks.