How to use these Search boxesThis powerful search tool will search thousands of names on many different Volga web sites in seconds. Search for your surname, village name or whatever you choose by entering the word into one of the search boxes and pressing Go!. The first search box searches the census indexes only. Each of the other 4 search box covers different Volga web sites. 500 web pages is the limit for each search box. Since there are 2,000 web pages, the search was divided into four search boxes. If you only search in the first or second box, you could be missing information about your ancestors. The third search box indexes the Argentina web sites.The search will only find EXACT matches. Exact matches will be returned in a list on one or more pages. If any of the entries are of interest simply click on the link and it will take you to the page where the match was found. It will NOT take you to the exact entry, just to the page. Then use the FIND in your browser (usually under Edit in the top menu) to find the matching word(s) on the page. What the Search box cannot findThe search box will not find a name that contains part of a word. For example, if you entered Rosent into the search box to find either Rosental or Rosenthal there will not be any matches. But if you enter Rosental or Rosenthal there will be matches for each specific spelling of the name.These search boxes do NOT search the AHSGR web site. The AHSGR site has its own search capabilities so be sure to check there for additional Volga resources. No wild cards are allowed in the search. Search TipsSearch for ALL possible spellings of the name.Commonly switched letters are: Y & J sample Jost = Yost C & K sample Clausser = Klausser For names with umlauts the proper spelling would be : ä = ae, ö = oe, ü = ue. As an example the surname Görlitz should be spelled Goerlitz. But Görlitz is just as commonly spelled Gorlitz, or Gerlitz so be sure to look for those spelling variations. If a name can be spelled with a th also search for the name with just a t such as Rosenthal and Rosental. Double letters are often changed to single letters such as Sackmann to Sackman. Endings such as dt in Schmidt can be changed to tt such as Schmitt or Schmit. Vowels are frequently changed, including y. Meyer could be Myer or Meier. Troudt could be spelled Trout, Traudt, or Trout. Search for phonetic spellings of names, Koch is often spelled Cook and Fuchs is often spelled Fox. | ||||||||||
