Antenati- new format?

[scraig32]

I haven’t searched in a while but I just noticed that Antenati is different. I am trying to located the 10 year death indexes for Palermo but am having a hard time navigating the new (or new to me) site. Has anyone been able to find the 10 year indexes? Thank you so much! Suzanne

[MarcuccioV]

I haven’t searched in a while but I just noticed that Antenati is different. I am trying to located the 10 year death indexes for Palermo but am having a hard time navigating the new (or new to me) site. Has anyone been able to find the 10 year indexes? Thank you so much! Suzanne

Once you're in the section you want, on the left, find "typology". You may have to click on "more". If there are any indices they should be found there...

[Barbarossa]

It is an absolutely mis-guided disaster and now has rendered every URL link anyone has saved to access, useless.
The Team behind it should be fired for the immense lack of foresight and tremendous failure they have created.

[giannattasio]

The new portal is bloody hell to navigate. Here's Palermo:
https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali. ... chivio=227

[NickAndreola]

It is an absolutely mis-guided disaster and now has rendered every URL link anyone has saved to access, useless.
The Team behind it should be fired for the immense lack of foresight and tremendous failure they have created.

It IS rather pathetic that a group/website supposedly dedicated to help find and connect to our ancestors and to preserve history has decided so casually to ERASE those connections and disjoint that history!


I am still learning how to navigate the site and have found a few helpful things that ALMOST make the site as functional as before the ''improvement". The easiest one to share is when you (finally) get to a set a records-->click on the three horizontal bars in the top left corner of the window to get a small inset window to pop out--->click the 3rd icon down 'Indice/Index'--->all the page numbers appear-->now if you don't find the index for that record set up front, you jump to the end to see if the index is there....just like you used to be able to do much more easily!!!!!

I have also found the icon in the upper right that toggles from single/singolo page view to thumbnails/galleria. HOWEVER, the thumbnails are all just icons (vs real images)---so in those cases where the record set indexes are located in the middle of the set, I haven't found a way do replicate the old method of scanning the actual image thumbnails for the variance in look of the page that indicated an index vs record....I'm stuck with clicking through page by page by page...... Hope somebody can remedy this--I know Ann is presenting a tutorial

[rlw254]

My initial reflex was that the changes were quite awful but I think long term they will facilitate quick searching of records. There are some questionable organization decisions but these things could be ironed out with a little time. At least the images are functional, something that couldn't often be said about the previous display.

[Italysearcher]

This should help https://fb.watch/9oLM5doNoJ/
Navigating the New Antenati site

[giannattasio]

Agree with NickAndreola and thanks for the navigation tips. It is without a doubt imperative to be able to view the thumbnail gallery images to search efficiently. Especially in the processetti with its overwhelming abundance of records you must be able to view the thumbnails in order to see the title pages for each new set of records. Once in the proper set, which can sometimes be up to 20 documents, you can visually scan the thumbnail images for what you need. Without the thumbnails the processetti is near impossible to search in any efficient manner. I don't see the point of having a thumbnail gallery option with no images present so I'm hoping they are working on this. It seems apparent that whoever did the re-design did no usability testing with any experienced users. It's a monkey meat maze of hidden navigation.