Searching JewishGen's "All Country" Databases

Instructions for ShtetLinks Webmasters

A search of one of JewishGen's "All Country Databases" searches through all of the relevant JewishGen databases — the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), the JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database, the JewishGen Discussion Group and SIG List Message Archives, as well as all datasets that pertain to the focus country.

Below is the HTML code for creating a button on your webpage, to send a town name to one of JewishGen's "All Country" Databases.  You can cut and paste the section of code directly from the box on this page.

Make the following substitutions:

You must use the modern spelling of the town name, without any accented characters.  Search the database manually before putting this code in your page, to make sure that the code works properly. 

<H3>JewishGen Lithuania Database (for YOURSHTETL)</H3>

<P>Click the button to show all entries for YOURSHTETL
in the JewishGen Lithuania Database.
<A HREF="http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania">(About
the JewishGen Lithuania Database)</A>.
</P>

<FORM Method="POST"
      Action="http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~allcountry2">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="allcountry" VALUE="ALLLITHJG">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1"  VALUE="YOURSHTETL">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1v" VALUE="T">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1t" VALUE="E">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="Search the JewishGen Lithuania Database">
</FORM>

Here is a live example of the above code, which creates a button that searches the "JewishGen Poland Database" for the town of "Tarnow":

If you want the button to search for several alternate names of your town (i.e. to search for all occurrences of either "Zalozce" or "Zaliztsi"), then use the following code: 

<FORM Method="POST"
      Action="http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~allcountry2">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="allcountry" VALUE="ALLLITHJG">

<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1"  VALUE="TOWNNAME-1">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1v" VALUE="T">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch1t" VALUE="E">

<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch2"  VALUE="TOWNNAME-2">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch2v" VALUE="T">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="srch2t" VALUE="E">

<input TYPE="hidden" name="SrchBOOL" VALUE="m_any">

<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="Search the JewishGen Lithuania Database">
</FORM>

You can search for up to four alternate town names, using parameters srch1, srch2, srch3, and srch4, as above.

JewishGen's "All Country Databases" — Parameter Table:

Countries Parameter Database URL Database Name
Belarus BELARUS http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus JewishGen Belarus Database
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland ALLSCANDINAVIA http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Scandinavia JewishGen Scandinavia Database
Germany ALLGERMANY http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Germany JewishGen Germany Database
Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia ALLHUNGARY http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary JewishGen Hungary Database
Latvia, Estonia LATVIA http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia JewishGen Latvia Database
Lithuania ALLLITHJG http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania JewishGen Lithuania Database
Poland ALLPOLAND http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland JewishGen Poland Database
Romania, Moldova ALLROMANIA http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania JewishGen Romania Database
Ukraine ALLUKRAINE http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ukraine JewishGen Ukraine Database
United Kingdom ALLUK http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK JewishGen UK Database
United States ALLUSA http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA JewishGen USA Database

Last Updated: 18-Jan-2006   WSB
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