SweGGate: New User's Guide

Guide for New Users
at SweGGate

This page describes the basics on how to use the site effectively

There are **FOUR MAIN SECTIONS**:
THEMES	Special Themes like Geography, Emigration, Military, Church Records. Each theme has its own colour. The theme sections are subdivided in Facts, Guides and Sources Sections.
FACTS	A library of facts on several relevant topics.
GUIDES	Advice on genealogy in general and a number of special topics. "How to" guides. This differs from the FACTS section in that here opinions are presented.
SOURCES	Sources for genealogical DATA, like parish records, census, ships lists,

and a geographically oriented set of sub-sites

REGIONAL
a series of many sub-sites for a specific part of Sweden. The hierarchy is:
Province - > Kommun -> Socken -> Village / Farm
To find a location go to the main Regions page and use the search facilities there.

If your browser can handle frames you have a persistent main menu with links to these sections at the top of your screen
The above colour coding is used throughout the site so you always know which section you are reading
All top level pages are short (one screen) mainly used for navigation.
Lower level pages are longer and filled with information.
Many links are cross-references sending you to connected topics within this site.
The site organization focuses on your question - not on where the answers may be found.
An effect of this is for example that you will not find resources grouped by "links, books" etc but instead by "type of information", like "Facts", "Guides" etc OR topics like "Emigration, Geography" etc.
Major source types have special guides on how to use them, e.g. Church Records (in the Guides or Themes sections)
To get an answer to a detail query, e.g. find church records for one parish, the general idea is that if you know the place (parish / commune / province / county) go to the provincial sections first. If you you don't know where (or you have a general question) then use the general topic pages OR the "Search" function from SweGGate main page.
Still some provincial pages are not very extensive. Please bear with me for a while longer. What is already in will certainly be useful to some.

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Last updated by

F Hae

2005-05-24 18:29