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RadixIndex Newsletter. Vol. 3 no. 2 (August 20, 2002)
(c) Janos Bogardi, 2002
http://www.radixindex.com
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In this issue:
1. Almost 200,000 new records added
2. Plans, delays
3. RadixIndex in Hungarian launched
4. Genealogy mailing list in Hungarian started
5. RadixIndex Personal Alerts registrants win again
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1. Almost 200,000 new records added
I am pleased to present this new edition of the RadixIndex Newsletter. It came out on the occasion of RadixIndex receiving a major addition in the terms of number of records. At the time of opening RadixIndex two and a half years ago its size was 380,000 records. The current update puts the record size to more than 760,000.
Thanks to the 135,000 records added recently the RadixIndex School Reports database now has 185,000 records. This update brings school reports from Transcarpathia, central and other parts of Hungary, mainly from the interwar area. You can find a couple of Budapest grammar schools in the list of processed materials, too. Here is the opening page of the database:
http://www.radixindex.com/public/pv005001.htm
The RadixRef database indexes Hungarian biographical collections. Besides the usual books in this collection, I have added two that I would like to highlight. The first one, the "Black book of the Hungarian State Police" is a collection of 35,000 persons that were considered as "bad guys" in interwar Hungary: they include communist, left-wing, convicted, expelled persons, spies and others. The other one, the book published on the tenth anniversary of the Vitez Order has a list of 12,500 entries of people who were accepted to this order up to 1931. The Vitez Order was initiated by Hungary's interwar governor, Admiral Horthy. Its members were supporters of the regime of the era, so, they were somewhat on the other side of the political sphere than those in the previously mentioned book. Here is the opening page of the database:
http://www.radixindex.com/public/pv002001.htm
2. Plans, delays
There are a lots of developments in the RadixIndex lab. Some of them pertain to long promised and wanted resources, while others are totally new experiments.
The launch of the 55,000 records database covering railway employees in Hungary as of 1912 is almost here, just like the city directory of Temesvar (Temeschburg, Timisoara) from the same decade. I hope to report its start in the next issue of this newsletter.
The 1:200,000 scale old military maps of Hungary project is not cancelled, though it has delays. One way to speed up preparation process is that you can contact me and let me know which are the settlements or smaller regions that you would like to appear next.
Besides cosmetic changes there are plans to improve searching capabilities in RadixIndex resouces. As RadixIndex has a growing number of databases it would become tedious to search every one of them. The obvious solution will be a searching utility which will fetch results from various resources. An other major improvement will be the set up of geographical, settlement indexes of records. As you know, RadixIndex is now searchable primarily by surnames, and then results can be filtered by region. The new facility will enable geographic searching first, then choosing surnames.
3. RadixIndex in Hungarian launched
The Hungarian version of RadixIndex was launched on May 1, 2002. If you are a subscriber of RadixIndex, and you would like to change the navigation language to Hungarian, please contact me at the support email.
4. Genealogy mailing list in Hungarian started
There have been a couple of internet mailing lists dedicated to family history research in Hungary. The first Hungarian language one started on July 1, 2002. The name of the list is Csaladtortenet, and it runs on the RadixIndex server: http://www.radixindex.com/csaladtortenet.shtml . Here you can find sign up instructions as well as the archives of the list. If you read/write in Hungarian, you are welcome to this list.
5. RadixIndex Personal Alerts registrants win again
RadixIndex Personal Alerts provides people with an unparalleled service: registrants receive free email alerts when there are additions to RadixIndex that, based on surname and settlement matches, possibly relate to researched families. As new additions are free (for a limited time) on RadixIndex, registrants have the chance to get interesting records for free. To top off this, if they wish, registrants' emails will be put into the drawing bowl, where they have a chance to win a RadixIndex Standard, Light or Mini subscription, one per type, monthly. As the last drawing took place back in January 2002, this time the program selected winners for the missing months, too. The 7*3 winners receive notification by email today. You can visit the RadixIndex Personal Alerts service here:
http://www.radixindex.com/rx005.htm
As always, check new things out on the RadixIndex website:
http://www.radixindex.com
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