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.