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Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate how you might use the database effectively.

Start

The usual starting point is a search of the database on the serach page.
Search page

Say we started with wanting to find deeds involving Andrew Croker. We could have started with searching for something other than a name such as residence or something in the comment field. You would enter this into the appropriate fields on the search page so it would look like the following.

The result of the query would be like the following:
Result from query

Today 33 rows were returned by the query. Let us focus on one of the rows of the query this has Memorial number = 102702
a row from results

To find what is in this deed we return to the search page and search for this memorial number. Thus we enter the number 102702 in the appropriate field on the search page and send the query.

The result of the query would be like the following:
Result from query

Today 29 rows were returned by the query. This is all the index records for the mmemorial number 102702. It is a bit hard to see what it all means. There is an alternative way to look at the index entries for this memorial. In the search page ther is a link to the athernative output method link.

Following this link
we come to the alternative output page. Noting that "nickred" is associated with "Nick Reddan" from the contributors page and "nickred" was the indexer in the result from query. We select Nick Reddan from the drop down list and enter the memorial number in the field as shown below:

Pressing the search button returns the following:
Result from query

This puts all the information indexed from the deed on one page so it is hopefully easier to understand.

The memorial of this deed is transcribed on the website: Transcription of 102702


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