[Genealib] design of web site

[Megan Lewis]

The Registry of Holocaust Survivors has a database search called
Namesearch at www.ushmm.org/namesearch. Its a homegrown product that
includes 3 search fields, names from a variety of different sources,
and includes photographs/document scans.
The system allows for a truncated search of names, but there's no
soundex (although they keep promising me one!)  'Bruml' is a good test
search.

The interface pulls from Access databases, many of which were
converted from Excel or other programs.  I think SQL Server is
involved as well, but I'm not sure.  Feel free to contact me if you
have any questions.  If I can't answer them, I'll forward them to
someone who can.  The interface has over 1 million names.

You might want to also check out www.Jewishgen.org's databases, which
have soundex and multiple variable search capabilities.  There's one
collection (Survivors listed in 'Aufbau')in the Holocaust database
that includes links to scanned images of the pages on a non-Jewishgen
website.  I don't know if any of the other dbs have additional media
attached.  Yad Vashem's Central  Database of Shoah Victims Names has 4
different ways of searching for names, exact spelling, soundex, fuzzy
search and synonyms. (www.yadvashem.org)

If you get a list, it would be great to see what else is out there,

Megan Lewis
Registry of Holocaust Survivors, USHMM
mlewis at ushmm.org


On 3/1/07, Karen Miller <kakmiller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We've been using the Halinet program (Halton Hills
> consortiuim) for over a year and think it's WONDERFUL.
>  It will indeed index scrapbooks, obits, newspapers
> and periodicals, display scanned images too.
> Our index using the Halinet software is at
> http://news.wilmette.lib.il.us/ if you want to test
> drive it a little.
>
> Karen Miller
> Wilmette Public Library
> Wilmette Illinois
> --- Heather McLeland-Wieser
> <Heather.McLeland-Wieser at spl.org> wrote:
>
> > Wow; I would love to here what your results are.  I
> > dream of mounting some of our internal databases on
> > the web.  But never have been able to convince the
> > PTB.
> >
> >
> > Heather McLeland-Wieser
> > Manager
> > Art Recreation & Literature
> > History Travel & Maps
> > 206-386-4092
> >
> >
> > >>> "Larry Naukam"
> > <lnaukam at mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us> 3/1/2007 12:20 PM
> > >>>
> > I am looking for good examples of library web sites
> > which allow cross
> > searching of various databases internally.
> >
> > The PTB (powers that be) have asked me to
> > investigate, and to start with I
> > saw Halton Hills in Canada which has a multi
> > database search. We would want
> > something that could handle over a million names,
> > and be adaptable for
> > various entries, such as some reference to obits,
> > some references to
> > biographies, buildings, industries, and even
> > scrapbooks which we have
> > indexed.
> >
> > The underlying indexes at this [point are in Excel.
> > They can be massaged and
> > moved to whatever program or site could handle this.
> >
> > Any ideas? We know of evanced solutions and their
> > genealogy products.
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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