It means the company was officially registered. This is explained at https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/FszekCimNevTarak_27_024/?pg=8&layout=s under "Protokollierte Firmen". In general, the meaning of symbols and, sometimes, abbreviations used in a directory is explained at the beginning of the ...

Three items from the planned improvements list have now been (partially) implemented: Filter/refine search results Sample search strategies ( genealogyindexer.org/guide ) and/or guided searches Visual changes to better suit high-resolution displays and mobile phones These will be further developed a...

Names of your father and his parents? Occupations?

Logan

Planned improvements for Genealogy Indexer (hopefully) during 2018, separate from continued addition of searchable content: OCR-Adjusted search method for finding matches despite OCR errors improved for Fraktur/Gothic/Blackletter fonts and extended to Cyrillic and Hebrew Automatic suggestion of matc...

Thanks very much, I will try to add these.

Logan

Numerous directories for Berlin are viewable (and somewhat searchable) at https://www.zlb.de/besondere-angebote/berliner-adressbuecher.html . Many have a section organized by name, a section organized by street address, and a section organized by type of business. You can browse/search yourself on t...

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Thanks for sharing this. Unfortunately, the images posted online would not yield accurate OCR results due to their low resolution. However, I will inquire whether there are better images offline.

Logan

[Update 27 Sep 2016: records from many more towns added, plus more records from Rzeszow] The Polish State Archives in Przemysl has posted online scans of many notary records from Debica, Dobromil, Glogow Malopolski, Kolbuszowa, Krakowiec, Lezajsk, Nisko, Pilzno, Pruchnik, Przeworsk, Radomysl, Radym...

Directories with "Copy 2" in their title are independently scanned second copies, added to increase your likelihood of finding matches despite OCR errors. Some types of OCR errors might occur for only one copy, so, by having two copies, you might find a match that you otherwise would not. This is es...