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ArkivDigital - Genealogy Research in Color

By genealogists - for genealogists

The company Arkiv Digital was founded for the realization of a genealogists being able to read the

archival material on his computer, as if he had the actual book in his hand.

To give the best opportunity to take advantage of our new material in color, we are constantly de-

veloping our program. We already have several features that make it easy to find what you are look-

ing for among all the parishes and volumes. Information from the Swedish National Archives data-

base is also available and the feature AID makes it even easier to collect, share and store infor-

mation.

We are constantly working on providing more information regarding the material in the database

and everything is available through the program. Our knowledge of genealogical research challenges

and joy, allows us to understand what you need!

We wish everyone good luck with their research!

Arkiv Digital AB

SWEDEN

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ArkivDigital online - Users Guide

The program – general information The program is designed to make it easy to browse through, search for books or pages in the books.

The image database contains more than 37 million images and we set ourselves the requirement that

an image can be requested by the customer and "delivered" on the screen in seconds worldwide.

Please read more about this at:

http://www.arkivdigital.net/products/adonline/systemrecommendations

If you have a computer that doesn't fill the requirements entirely you can try it for free by installing

the program and then "log in" in what we call DEMO-mode. In DEMO mode, you have access to the

entire application without restrictions, but only two parishes: Älvsbacka (Elofsbacka) and Röke.

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Content

The program – general information ........................................................................................................ 2

Installation ............................................................................................................................................... 4

How to login ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Overview of the program’s different areas and functions ...................................................................... 7

The program window consists of a number of different areas: .......................................................... 7

TITELBAR .................................................................................................................................. 7

MENUES ................................................................................................................................... 7

FUNCTION BUTTONS ............................................................................................................... 7

TABS ......................................................................................................................................... 8

SEARCH, IMAGE READING AND CHAT AREA............................................................................ 8

STATUS INFORMATION and AID-FIELD .................................................................................... 8

Function Descriptions .............................................................................................................................. 9

MENUES –Content and Functions: ...................................................................................................... 9

File ........................................................................................................................................... 9

Edit ........................................................................................................................................... 9

View ....................................................................................................................................... 10

Bookmarks ............................................................................................................................. 10

Tools ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Help ....................................................................................................................................... 10

FUNCTION BUTTONS ......................................................................................................................... 11

”Search Archive”:................................................................................................................... 11

”Print”: ................................................................................................................................... 11

”Bookmarks”: ........................................................................................................................ 11

”Other buttons”: .................................................................................................................... 11

TABS ................................................................................................................................................... 12

General information .............................................................................................................. 12

Tabs for reading images (pages) ............................................................................................ 14

The Chat tab .......................................................................................................................... 16

STATUSROW and AID-FIELD ............................................................................................................. 19

Technical information............................................................................................................ 19

Link to ArkivDigital homepage .............................................................................................. 19

AID-field: ................................................................................................................................ 19

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ......................................................................................................................... 20

Menu selections ................................................................................................................................ 20

Image and Tab handling .................................................................................................................... 20

Moving the cursor between the different parts of the program window ........................................ 21

FAQ ........................................................................................................................................................ 21

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Installation To be able to browse and read the documents, you must install our software “ArkivDigital online”.

The latest version is called ArkivDigital online v1.4.3.

IMPORTANT:

Before you install a newer version of the program

you must close the ArkivDigital online program

window.

To upgrade from an earlier version, just install

the new version - no uninstall procedure is need-

ed.

To find the installation link go to our website

www.arkivdigital.net and click on software for

your computer's operating system (Windows,

Mac, Linux):

If you are using Windows XP, Vista or Win 7 you will see the following messages:

Security warning: Do you want to run this program…

- Click on Run

Message: Select language

- Click on: [OK]

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Possibly your computer (Windows) will ask for your permission to install the program - You must always allow or accept that the program may be installed, otherwise you may have problems using ArkivDigital online.

- The security warning looks like this…

The following boxes belong to the Installer and shows up during the installation process:

Tip: From paragraph 1 below, it is also a good idea to use the Enter key on your keyboard to move to the next step.

1. Read: Licensagreement:

Click [I agree]

2. Choose installation folder:

Click [Next]

3. Select Start menu folder:

Click [Install]

4. Installation in progress:

Can take a while – Wait… then

click [Next]

5. Installation ready:

Click [Finish]

The new icon on your Desktop

should be named

ArkivDigital online

and look like this:

6. You have a new Icon on your

Desktop.

You will find the AD icon on your desktop if you close or minimize your browser (Internet Explorer or

other browser).

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Note

When the program starts the first time, your computer can sometimes tell you that you have no

rights. The message asks what to do and the answer is that you want to allow the program. If the

program does not start automatically, you must close it by clicking the red cross on the top right of

the program window. Wait 5-10 seconds and then start the program by double-clicking the icon

ArkivDigital online on your computers Desktop.

How to login

When the program starts, the login box

appears.

In the login box, fill in your username

(email address) - the same as you used

when you registered on our website.

Then fill in the password you chose.

Click OK

Tip: Do not tic the ”Autologin” box until you know that the login process works without problems.

The program will now download some information that you need to search the entire image

database.

The following message will appear:

Wait…

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Overview of the program’s different areas and functions

When you log in the program opens a connection to our server where our entire digital archive

available. When you click on a parish or on a volume, the program sends your "request" to our

server, which in turn sends back the information you have requested.

The program window consists of a number of different areas:

1. Titel bar

2. Menus

3. Function buttons

4. Tabs

5. Search and Image reading area

6. Status information and AID-field

TITELBAR

At the top of the application window there is a stripe called the Title

bar. It shows the program’s name and sometimes even some of the

content of the actual window. It is usually blue which is Windows

default color. On the far right is a red cross, that can be used to close the program, buttons for

minimizing and maximizing, or restoring the window.

MENUES

Under the Title bar you will find the Menu bar starting from the left with the menu: File and ends

with the menu Help.

FUNCTION BUTTONS

Directly under the menu bar you will find a series of “Function buttons". Here is where you find the

Print button, the Bookmark button, scroll buttons, zoom in and zoom out, rotate, etc. The symbols

will give you a clue.

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TABS

The program is designed to show all images in “TABs“ in the same way as a traditional card system.

TABs with their respective headlines appear directly below the row of Function buttons.

SEARCH, IMAGE READING AND CHAT AREA

Under the Function buttons you will find a large area

for searching and browsing the images (pages). When

the program is started, it will always show a tab titled

“Search archives/volumes”. In this tab you can search

for and choose what material you want to work with. In

the current version of ArkivDigital online, there are

three different tab types:

1. “Search archives/volumes” tabs

2. ”Image tabs” for reading pages

3. ”Chat”-tabs

STATUS INFORMATION and AID-FIELD

At the bottom of the application window there is statusinformation to the left and the AID-filed

togehter with a link to our homepage. Read more about AID in the section: Function descriptions.

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Function Descriptions

MENUES –Content and Functions:

Directly below the Title bar you will

find the Menu bar which contains

the following functions:

File

o Login: [Ctrl]+[L]

Opens the login dialog

o Save image: [Ctrl]+[S]

Choose JPG eller PNG-format to save a selected image

o Print: [Ctrl+P]

Opens the Print dialog

o Quit: [Q] (if the file menu is open)

Closes the program

Edit

o Copy source identifier: [Ctrl]+[C]

Copies the complete source: Parish, Volume ID, Year, Image/page nr and the AID-

code and NAD-code of the volume.

o Copy pure source identification: [Ctrl]+[K]

Copies in cleartext the Parish name, designation of the Volume, period and Im-

age nr. - (sample: Acklinga AI:2 (1815-1820) Image 1)

o Copy AID (ArkivDigital ID): [Ctrl]+[A]

The image AID-kod. - (sample: v91713.b18.s6 )

o Copy AID Show-URL

Sample: http://www.arkivdigital.se/aid/show/v26363.b1

Opens that image in ArkivDigital online

o Copy AID Info-URL

Sample: http://www.arkivdigital.se/aid/info/v26363.b1

Opens a page in your browser containing information about the parish

including a link to that specific page (opens in ArkivDigital online)

o Copy HTML-link: [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C]

A HTML-link can be used (copied into the HTML-code) on a homepage to give

others direct access to the image in ArkivDigital online. One click on the link au-

tomatically opens the image in ArkivDigital online.

o Copy “Anbytarforum” link: [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[A]

This is specially designed for The Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies

forum. Works the same way as the HTML-link.

o Copy Image area: [Crtl]+[ I ] (I = image)

The chosen image is copied into your computers memory and can be pasted into

any graphics program or in Microsoft Word.

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View

o Toolbar:

Toggle to show/hide Toolbar

o Status bar:

Toggle to show/hide Status bar

o Style sheets:

Standard

High Contrast

Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow

Custom defined

Edit custom defined – Note: Special skills in programming needed!

o Language

Swedish

English

o Active tabs

Shows the headers of all open tabs in a list

Bookmarks

o Bookmarks [Ctrl]+[B]:

Opens your Bookmarks window

o Bookmark page [Ctrl]+[D]:

Creates a new bookmark in your bookmark file for the actual image.

o Export bookmarks:

Creates a Bookmark file on your local computer in a folder of your choice.

o Import bookmarks:

Allows you to retrieve bookmarks locally and save them on our server.

Note: Any bookmarks you have previoulsy saved on our server disappears

when you import bookmarks from a local file.

Tools

o Preferences

Opens a dialog for

General settings

Image settings

Chat settings

o Chat

Opens the Chat-tab

Help

o Help page

Opens the Support page on www.arkivdigital.net

o About ArkivDigital online:

Information about the program

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FUNCTION BUTTONS

Below the Menu bar you will find a row of Function buttons - the Search Archive, Print and

Bookmarks buttons, Browse buttons, Zoom, Rotate buttons and more.

Buttons from left:

”Search Archive”:

A click on this button opens a new "Search Archives" tab. Through this feature you can have

multiple volumes from several parishes simultaneously available.

”Print”:

Opens the dialog box "Print" where you can select printer and printer settings.

”Bookmarks”:

Opens the Bookmark window where you see the bookmarks you have.

”Other buttons”:

Those features are described in detail in the respective area below.

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TABS

General information

The tab headers contain some features accessible via right mouse click on any tab. The red marking

on the picture below shows the shortcut menu that you will get.

The four options are:

Close tab (that was clicked on)

Close all tabs except the one (that was clicked on)

Show in separate window (red marking in picture below)

a. A window with only a few simple functions opens with the actual image in it.

Zooming and common navigation functions work in this window.

Open tabs

a. Displays a list of all open tabs.

Note: This feature can also be found on the far right of the row of

tab headers – see picture to the right....

The picture below shows the separate window that opens when you choose to "view in a separate

window". The window is primarily intended as a means to quickly cross check a task without having

to open a whole new tab via the "Search Archive" window. The window has limited functions.

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The ”Search Archive” tab

Red markings above:

1. Search archive/volume (sample: Viby):

Here you fill in the name of the Parrish (Record holder) that you want to work with. As soon as

you start typing the name, the parish list will be "filtered" ( 5.)

2. Advanced search options:

Click on the button to get the three boxes to

choose Archive type, County and Province.

Note: When you close this box your selections

are no longer valid.

3. NAD: This is information about where in the Swedish National Archives system you will find the

selected parish/archive). If you click on the link (blue underlined text) to open your browser, it

gives you direct access to the Swedish National Archives database's information regarding the

chosen parish/archive.

4. Info: In this area you can read important information regarding the chosen parish/archive.

Changed names or merging with other parishes is vital information that you may find here.

5. List of Parishes/Archives (Archive holders):

Showing all parishes/archives in the ArkivDigital image database or a selection of parishes and

could be used as follows:

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a. Finding a Parish:

i. Through filtering:

1. If you filled in the search box with the sample "Viby" you will see all par-

ishes/archives containing the letters "viby" in their name.

2. Fill in any letter combination in the search box that may be included in a

number of parishes/archives in order show all of those.

ii. Without filtering:

1. Scroll down the list – it is ordered alphabetically – using:

a. the mouse wheel

b. the scrollbar in the right margin

b. How to see all volumes available in a selected parish/archive:

i. Select the parish in the list by double-clicking that line. The volume list on the

right will fill up with all available volumes in the selected parish/archive.

6. Info: This screen allows you to read some important information about the selected volume.

Here you can see if there is a damage, missing pages or what other information you may find in

the book.

7. Volume list: Showing any volume/-es in the parish you selected in the Parish list ( 5.)

a. Open a Volume:

i. To open a volume for reading, you must double-click the volume’s line. You can

also highlight the row and use the [Enter] key on your keyboard.

Once you've done this, a new tab opens with the current volume’s first image.

See the paragraph immediately below.

Tabs for reading images (pages)

To open an image tab, double click on the volume (the line in the volume list ( 7.) above) that you

want to open and read. When you double-clicked to open the tab and the volume’s first image

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appears in the tab – usually the volumes cover. The binder and the cover usually confirms that you

have found the correct volume and is important to have included in the database for that reason.

When the image is loaded into the window, you can use the following functions for easy reading:

To Navigate:

a. Put the cursor in the middle of the picture - hold down the left mouse button

and “drag” the image in any direction.

b. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to pan in any direction.

c. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard + [Ctrl] to pan to any image border.

To Zoom:

a. Use the Zooming buttons in the Function bar; [+] och [- ] to zoom in or out.

b. Use [+] or [-] keys on your keyboard.

c. Use your mouse-wheel.

To Browse:

a. The Browse function in the Button Function Bar.

i. [-5] scroll backwards 5 pages

ii. [-1] scroll backwards 1 page

iii. [+1] scroll forward 1 page

iv. [+5] scroll 5 pages forward

v. In the Drop down box you will be able to select and go directly to any

page (image nr / page nr ).

b. Browse with your Keyboard:

i. [Shift] + [ PageUp] scroll backwards 5 pages

ii. [ PageUp ] scroll backwards 1 page

iii. [PageDown] scroll 1 page forward

iv. [Shift] och [PageDown] scroll 5 pages forward

Reload an image:

a. The Reload button reloads an image.

Rotate an image:

a. Use the Rotate left and Rotate right buttons to rotate in 90 degr. steps.

Whole (image):

a. Click once on the Whole button to fit image to window ( [Shift]+[Home] on your

Keyboard ).

Image settings:

a. Click on the Image Settings in the Function Button Bar.

i. Use them for:

I. Brigthness

II. Smooth (standard)

III. Auto contrast

IV. Sharpen

V. Yellow Contrast (for some sight disabilities)

VI. Advanced filter - you may wish to achieve a special effect.

b. Click once on the Image Settings button to close the settings area.

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The Chat tab

General information:

The reason why we created a chat is that we believe in the benefits and the pleasure of being able to

share information with others and probably also get answers to your research questions, and to

make progress in research in an easy way.

“Chatting” has become a way to communicate with friends and perhaps even discover new friends.

It's a bit like sending text messages (SMS) to each other on the phone, but in this case, via a PC and

our software ArkivDigital online. You can choose to be visible and accessible to all who use AD chat,

but on the other hand you can choose just to chat personally with those you already know.

We hope that our Chat will be helpful for anyone using ArkivDigital online.

Description

If you click on the menu "Tools" on the Menu bar, you will find the Chat option. Click “Chat” to open

the chat tab.

On the picture below (next page) you can see that the chat includes the following fields/boxes (from

left to right):

”All messages in the room”

”Users in the room”

”Search and add Buddy” (with the possibility to also remove)

”My chat buddies”

and a small box at the bottom left to write your own messages, and a button to send these

messages.

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Explanations for the various boxes

1. ”All messages in the room”

In this box you can see what’s written by others and by yourself. All messages have a "sender" and a

time when the message was sent. Your own messages are marked with a different colour (blue) and

with your selected name in the chat.

If you enter (or paste) an AID a link, that the recipient can click to open the image directly into their

ArkivDigital online, is formed automatically. Thus exchange of information is facilitated and it could

be an easy way to ask for a solution to, for example, a reading or a translation problem.

2. ”Users in the room”

In this box you can see which ones are online on ArkivDigital online and have their chat turned on. If

you right-click on any of these, you’ll get more information about that person. This way it becomes

easier to find the person you want to chat with.

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3. Search and add buddy / Remove selected buddy

You can search for a person whose e-mail address

you know or on the person's selected chat name.

The search results will show a more

comprehensive information on those persons

found to make sure to find the right person.

4. ”My chat Buddies”

This will create a list of people who want to chat with, without

having to write anything in the open message room.With your chat

buddies you can open your own chat room that nobody else sees.

Add a chat buddy:

Right-clicking a person on-line in the “room" will allow you to add

that person to your buddy list. That person will then receive a

request from the system to confirm that he/she wants to be your

chat buddy (and add them to your list).

Remove a buddy:

You can easily delete a person from your buddy list by doing the

following: Click the you want to remove from your friend list and

press the minus button just above the list.

Crossed out (red) buddy is off-line

Buddy with questionmark means pending permission to add

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STATUSROW and AID-FIELD

At the bottom of the application window you will find the Status Row and the AID-field.

Frames from left to right:

Technical information

Information about time for downloading of images and/or data. Could be used to verify that the

application works correctly.

Link to ArkivDigital homepage

AID-field:

All images in our database have a unique identity code known as AID. The name “AID” represents

the international word for Help. The point is that all users of AID can use it to help find their way

back to certain information and also to help others finding information. How you want to use AID is

entirely up to each person. AID consists of information based on how we index our images and the

basic information is the Swedish National Archives NAD-codes.

Each image’s AID can be seen in the AID-box and can be copied in several ways:

1. Through the Cut-&-Paste feature:

a. Highlight the code in the AID-box and copy by pressing [Ctrl] and [C] on your keyboard.

2. By the Edit menu in the Menu Bar:

a. Menu item: Copy AID

b. Keyboard combination [Ctrl] + [A]

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KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS To facilitate the management of the program, several keyboard commands has been introduced in

this version of the program (Ver. 1.4.3). Below are the instructions divided into three groups:

1. Menu selections

2. Images and Tab handling

3. The movement of the cursor (focus) in the program window (between different parts of the

Search archive tab).

Mac-users: Use Command key [⌘] instead of the [Ctrl] key.

Menu selections File: [Ctrl]+[L] Opens the Login-box

[Ctrl]+[S] Save ”active” image

[Ctrl]+[P] Opens the Print dialog

[Q] Closes the program Edit: [Ctrl]+[C] Copy source identifier

[Ctrl]+[K] Copy pure source identification

[Ctrl]+[A] Copy AID (Arkiv Digital ID)

[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C] Copy HTML-länk

[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[A] Copy ”Anbytarforum”-link

[Ctrl]+[I] Copy image surface (the active image tab). Bookmarks: [Ctrl]+[B] Bookmarks - opens the bookmark window

[Ctrl]+[D] Bookmark page (the active image tab)

Image and Tab handling Pan an

image: [Arrow] Move in the arrow direction [Arrow] + [Shift] Increase moving steps [Arrow] + [Ctrl] Moves to the image border [Arrow] + [Ctrl] + [Shift] Moves to the image border, centered [Home] Moves to the upper image border [End] Moves to the lower image border

Zoom: [+] Zoom in

[-] Zoom out

[Shift] + [Home] Zoom to ”Whole” – Fit image to window

Browse: [PgUp] / [PgDn] 1 image back / 1 image forward [Shift[ + [PgUp] / [PgDn] 5 images back / 5 images forward

Tab, change: [Ctrl] + [PgUp] / [Pg Dn] Change 1 TAB back / 1 TAB forward

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Moving the cursor between the different parts of the program window

You can move the cursor (focus) to different areas of the program by using the [TAB] key. Key

combination [Shift] + [TAB] gives the inverse transfer order.

When the program starts the program window has focus, but the cursor is not visible. You can move

the focus to the next “area” of the application window by pressing the TAB key and you can proceed

through the different areas in the following order:

Search box

Search-button

o Responds to the [Enter]-key

Advanced search options button

o Responds to the [Space]-key

Search options; Choose Archive, County and Province by means of the [TAB]-key

Browse lists by using the up/down arrow keys

Information box

o If there’s a link within the information box, the [TAB]-key will move the cursor to it. The

link can be followed by using the [Enter]-key.

Archive holder list

o Choose archive by using the [Enter]-key]

Volume list

o Choose Volume by using the [Enter]-key

TAB-header

o If there are more than one tab open you can move to the nearest tab by using the [Ar-

row]-key.

To move between certain program areas you sometimes have to press the [TAB]-key more than

once.

FAQ You will find a selection of Frequently Asked Questions or "FAQ" below:

http://www.arkivdigital.net/support

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Thank You for using Arkiv Digital’s services!

By genealogists -For genealogists

We cooperate with genealogists and the large family research

organizations in Sweden in developing the best genealogy service online.

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