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 A unique quality of the Reconstitution of the memory of Poland database is that all the:
 are stored in original language, while the descriptions of archival objects are in Polish.

The names of the home cities of the creators or individual archives are stored both in Polish and in their original language.

This allows the database to be searched in Polish language. The search results allow to identify the original name of the archive where the materials are stored and the original numbers, titles and names of their creators - exactly as they were denoted in the archive.

This way, people who do not know all the Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, German etc. languages at one, are still able to query the database in their mother tongue, which allows for searching all the archives at once. It would not be feasible if not the for the Reconstitution of the memory of Poland database, even if all the researched archives had their collection sets available on-line. An addiotional feature is instanteous access to all the information necessary in order to formulate the request for the archive holding the sets in question (the number and the original title).
  



The legend:

1 and 3 - are the text fields for entering words or parts of the words that we are searching for
 
2 and 4- menu with choice of where to search for the values entered in fields 1 and 3.

Avialable options:

5 - possibility to limit the search to a single creator only
 
6 - possibility to limit the search to a single archive only
 
Entering more than one word in field 1 will result in list of all records containing all entered terms. The same applies to field 3.

The "and", "or" and "not" fields, situated between text fields 1 and 3 denote how the text in field 3 is related to text in field 1.
Selecting "and" will find the records containing all the words from field 1 and field 3.
Selecting "or" will find the records containing words found either in field 1 or field 3.
Selecting "not" will find the records containing all the words from field 1 but not in field 3.
When using "and", "or" or "not" options, it is still important to pay attention to the values chosen in fields 2 i 4, as they will affect the search results.

A simple search example:
Enter "lubom" into filed 1 and press "search" button. The following list of results is being displayed:




Clicking on any title or name will display the exact description of the archival object. E.g. clicking on the Lubomyrs'ki, kniazi title will result in the following information being displayed.

We hope you'll find the database useful and simple to use at the same time.
Feel free to send your questions regarding the database to email addresses mentioned in "About RMP Program" tab.