Sunday, November 4, 2012

Changes at digitalarkivet!

It seems they are making some changes to the website - digitalarkivet. I have been having trouble getting the jpeg file of the documents to come up and if they do the pixels are very confused. If this happens to you here is a way to display the photo.

Select the page you want to view, then select either PDF-1 (landscape) or PDF-2 (portrait) and you can view it in the pdf format. You will find it on the right side of the menu line. If this isn't the page you want, backup to the photo page and select the right arrow to the next page and select the PDF again to view. The great thing about this is that when you find your page and save it, at the top of the copy is the citation information already made for you. This is a lot easier and faster for future tracking and citing the information you find.

Hopefully the bugs will be worked out at the website so searching will again be easy but remember to save in the PDF file with the citation.

Here is the link to the Digital Archives for searching the parish registers - http://arkivverket.no/eng/content/view/full/629
 
Good luck in the search for your Norwegian ancestors.