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SEARCH CATEGORIES

The following search categories are available in the Advanced Search:

Fulltext search	Indexing of the entire text of all documents in the database (image and text documents).
Persons / Names	Names in the format of surname, given name, and including possible additions such as other names, occupations, titles.
Institutions / Organisations	Authorities, parties, associations, companies etc.
Geographical index	Place names, country names.
Subjects	Subjects headings
General index	Comprises the individual indices of Persons / Names, Institutions / Organisations, Subjects as well as the Geographical index.
Document title	Title of the documents in the database.
Occupations / Fields of activity	Occupations and fields of activity of persons on whom there are biographical articles in the database.
Document ID	For each document there is an individual alpha-numerical code (this is displayed in the source citation of a document).
Publication titles	Titles of the original editions, biographical and general reference works available in the database.
Document Group / Document Type	Classification of the documents into four groups: Primary Sources, Biographical Material, Explanatory Material, Reference Works and the Document Types allocated to these groups.
Date	Search for documents with a specific date, documents containing dates before or after the entered date or within a period.

In most search categories, search terms can be selected from available Index lists and combined with each other as required.