When you click on a search result, the record page opens. It shows everything Open Archives knows about this record.
From top to bottom
- Event and persons. For example: birth on 13 September 1826. Below that the persons with their role: father, mother, child. Click on a name to search for that person.
- Source citation. The archive, the source type, the place, the period, the inventory number and the record number.
- Origin. When the archive last updated the data and when it was published on Open Archives.
- Buttons. View on source website, report an error, download data, add to favorites, add comment and share this page.
- Web address. The permanent link of this record on Open Archives and at the archive.
- Related documents. Other records and information about the same persons. You see these when you are logged in.
- Comments. Additions and corrections from other researchers.
- Scan. The image of the original record, if the archive has supplied it.
- Context. For example the weather on the day of the event, an explanation of the source type or information about a profession.
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