INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT USING THE SEARCH ENGINE FEATURE:

1. SELECT DATABASE: The default setting is the Los Angeles 5-County database (LA5CO), which includes the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura.
2. TRADITION and CLASCODE: see the CLASSIFICATION OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS document available in ENGLISH or SPANISH, which is formatted for the Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf).
3. You may narrow your SEARCH by selecting one or more of the options listed in the left-hand column above (use the middle column for your selection): CLASCODE, KEYWORD, CITY, ZIPCODE, ENGLISH NAME and COUNTY.
4. Also, you may SORT BY clicking on one of the items in the right-hand column above.
5. While viewing the selected database on your monitor, you may do additional SORTS by clicking on the appropriate COLUMN HEADER.
6. You may also SELECT and SORT BY the following COUNTY CODES: Los Angeles (LA), Orange (OR), Riverside (RI), San Bernardino (SB), and Ventura (VE).
7. Please report any malfunction of the SEARCH ENGINE to the PROLADES-RITA Webmaster at:? prolades@racsa.co.cr

FURTHER INFORMATION:

• ETHCODE = Used to identify the major ETHNIC GROUP served by this church body; a listing of all the ethnic codes used in this database are available at: www.prolades.com/glama/ethnics.pdf
• DENCODE = Used to identify the DENOMINATIONAL AFFILIATION of each congregation; a listing of all the denominational names and clascodes (choose ALL countries and SORT BY clascode) used in this database are available at: http://www.prolades.com/searchengine/
• CLASCODE = Used to sort the database by TRADITIONS and DENOMINATIONS; each DENOMINATION has its own CLASCODE (alpha-numerical) to facilitate the sorting of groups within the various FAMILIES of denominations and MAJOR TRADITIONS; see the CLASSIFICATION OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS document that is available in ENGLISH or SPANISH, which is formatted for viewing in the Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf).
• TRADITION = Used to describe the MAJOR RELIGIOUS TRADITION of each congregation; see the CLASSIFICATION document that is available in ENGLISH or SPANISH, which is formatted for viewing in the Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf).