Karen, I do not really read or write much Czech, but have been able to get logged on and find family parish records, so I will attempt to guide those that need some help with instructions below. When they first came online in early January, things seemed to work fairly easily, but as they’ve added more parishes and attempted to correct some problems, things have seemed to go south on them. I currently can’t get records to load for the parishes that I have interest it. I am not sure whether this is affecting all their parish books (I don’t think so) or not. From their comment that they have posted, I believe they are aware of this and are working on it so it should be just a matter of time until things are working better again. The archive at http://www.actapublica.eu/ contains records for both the Pilsen and Brno Archives. Unlike the Trebon Archives (which by the way seems much easier to navigate) you must first register to have access to these records. I use a google tool bar that automatically translates most of the html code on pages (not the actual images). I really does a fairly decent job and most translations make some sense. I will list things below as they appear in Czech with some English translations. Go to www.actapublica.eu There are four icons across the page below the words Prohlizeni matrik (Viewing registers) * Informace o projektu * Registrace nového uživatele/New registration * Náhledy aplikace * Přihlášení do systému (Log into the system) It is the second one you need to register at and the last one after you are registered to get logged in. Click “New registration”. The words in red says, “When entering the login name (login) and login password Enter the characters without diacritical marks and no spaces.” I think all of the boxes have English descriptions following the Czech words. There is one for “Číslo OP/Doc. No.” It won’t let you complete the registration unless you put sometime in this box. They want an identity number. I used my drivers license number and it worked fine. I’ve heard some people used a passport number or made up a number (as they were concerned about identity theft) and that also works, I don’t know if it does, I just know you can’t leave it blank. Near the end, you have to check the box in front of “Souhlasím s podmínkami užití služeb/I agree with term of use” and then click the box “Registravat se” That should get you registered. You can now go back to the home page and click on the 4th icon, to log into the system. Enter your login name in the first box, your password in the second box and click on “Prihlasit se” below. Don’t click on “zapomenuté heslo” as that means “Forgotten Password”. The next page shows a section boxed in called “vyhledavani” meaning “search”. In the beginning you should be in the Brno archives - see the second line that says “Archiv”. To work in the Pilsen region, select the drop down box in the first line that says “Statni oblastni archiv v Plzni” and click on the icon “Zobrazit”. That should change the archive from Brno to Pilsen. Now you will need to enter the village name that you are looking for. Actually, you’ll probably only want to enter the first part of the village name as it will search through those that are available and allow you to select from a drop down section the village/parish combination that you want.. You don’t have to do anything in the next two boxes, just click on the icon “Hledat” (Search). You may get a page that comes up with the phrase, “Matriky pro tuto obec nejsou zatím zadané v systému.” This means Registers for this community are not yet entered in the system. Or, you could get a listing of the parish books that have the village name you entered. If so, the columns roughly mean: Parish and book # District (like counties here in the states) Municipality - putting the curser over the number in this column shows the names of the villages in this book Source (generally which Roman Catholic Parish) Births Marriages Deaths Indexes - they use a star for birth indexes, circle for marriage indexes and plus sign for death indexes when available. They will usually be at the end of these parish books Next column is often blank - I think it refers to how many images are in that particular book The Last Column - if it has a magnifying glass in it, that is the link you need to click to get to that parish book. What’s happening now to the parishes that I’m searching, its that the page (image 1) is loading, but it never actually loads. If I see where it is working better, I’ll email the list again. If anyone else is new having success loading those pages, please share it with the list. In January, the Pilsen Archives were working on parishes beginning with the letters A-D. Now I believe they are working parish through to the letter J. I have also found parish records of family in the Brno Archives. They seem to have went at the loading of records differently. Rather that loading all records for some parishes first, they are loading the most commonly requested parish books first. So many parishes have a few parish books online, but very few parishes are completed - typically books that cover the 1800's are load before those from the 1600's and 1700's. Good luck. - Ken Chromy