The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon 1316 – 1415 |
These search engines search fields in the tables that make up the Index of Persons in different kinds of ways. They do not search the cases themselves. We are thinking of implementing a search engine for cases, but in the meantime the best way to search the contents of a case is to open the cases page in your browser and search by using the browser’s search engine. Except for Any Data and Select Distinct Values, which are described at the end of the list, the searches return a truncated version of the index entry with the ID, the given name, the first surname if any, and any other field that might contain the data sought, in parentheses. The ID number is linked to the index entry, where the case numbers can be found linked to the case itself. (Some patience is necessary when linking to the index; there are many anchors to look through.) The searches are in string form; Boolean searching is not implemented. Searches can contain any alphanumeric characters in the utf-8 character set. The search engines do a pretty good job with normalized characters that have diacritics in the database. Thus, entering ‘Macon’ will return all instances of ‘Mâcon’. (There are a few that they miss. ‘Dakovo’ does not return ‘Đakovo’.) Since the data is broken down quite finely into fields and searches are by field, searches of more than a word or two are likely to produce no hits. Since most of the searches search more than one table, duplicate results will occur if there are any differences in the data in the subordinate tables, even if the difference is not visible in the return. General Search. This search searches all the fields in the Index that contain text except for the prefix fields. It is good for searching for uncommon words or phrases and is likely to return an unacceptably large number of hits if a common word or phrase is entered. |
Please enter all or part of the word(s) that you are looking for.
Surnames. This search allows you to search for surnames in any field that is likely to contain them. |
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Places. This search allows you to search for place-names in any field that that is likely to contain them. To find a modern place-name, use the official spelling including any diacritics. |
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter all or part of the name that you are looking for.
Please enter the name of any field (except for those in reference_me_rev) in which you are looking for data.
Please enter the name of any field in reference_me_rev in which you are looking for data.
Please enter the name of the field in the main_entry table in which you are looking for data.
Please enter the name of the field in the benefice table in which you are looking for data.
Please enter the name of the field in the relation table in which you are looking for data.
Please enter the name of the field in the papal offices table in which you are looking for data.