Instructions for using the TollerBrowser

After reading the appropriate section below, click the "Enter the Browser" button in the top right corner of this page.
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The browser is fairly self explanatory on the whole.  When you enter the browser you will be taken directly to the pedigree of a fairly randomly selected dog.  From there you can either click your way around the breed, or use the Lookup Dog button to search for a particular dog by name.  Every dog name you see on the screen is a link you can click on to re-center the display around that dog.  Use the Printable Pedigree button to generate a pedigree with no colored background or buttons along the top, suitable for printing out.
 

How to Add Puppies

New puppies (or any dog missing from the database) can be added on an unofficial basis directly through the website: They will show up immediately.  Adding puppies this was has absolutely no official significance whatsoever: The puppies won't be reported to anyone and will be marked as "unofficial" until the official stud books are published and processed.  (There is nothing you can do to make the unofficial marking go away other than just wait, sometimes for as long as 2 years.  It will happen automatically when it happens.)

To add a new puppy, start by locating one of the puppies parents in the browser.  Once you have a parent located, click the link titled "Add Puppy/Display breeding of this dog" in the yellow area above the pedigree.  This will set that dog up as half of a breeding, and you can then continue and locate the second parent.

When you've located the second parent, click the link titled "Select this dog to breed with...".  You will now get a display of the pedigree resulting from the breeding of the two dogs you selected, and a form to fill out for registering puppies from such a breeding.

 When you enter the browser you will be taken directly to the pedigree of a fairly randomly selected dog. The screen is arranged in two parts: Along the top is a control panel where you choose various options for how the pedigree information should be displayed, and below that is the actual information (which sometimes extends for many pages down, if you choose to display a lot of generations). 

The display is always "centered" about a particular dog, whose name, registration number, birthdate, and other information are displayed in a large yellow box below the control panel.  All the other information on the screen is relative to that selected dog. 

Using the check boxes and pop up menus in the control panel, you can choose how many generations of ancestors to display, how many generations of decendants to display, and whether to display the main dog's littermates, siblings (dogs from the same two parents but born in a different litter), or half-siblings (dogs born to the same sire or dam but paired with a different mate).  The current settings are highlighed in green. 

Ancestors are displayed in the standard pedigree format, going back as many generations as you have selected.  Dogs that appear at least once in both the sire and dam sides of the pedigree are indicated with a pink background.  (This isn't a value judgement on the subject of inbreeding, just information.) 

Littermates, siblings, and half-siblings are displayed in a column under the main dog's name, to the left of the ancestors.  Each grouping of half siblings is headed by the name of the other mate. 

Descendants are listed to the left of the siblings, in a reverse-pedigree format.  If there is more than one generation of decendants, the decendants of each dog are listed to the left of the box representing that dog (just the reverse of the ancestors block, where the ancestors of each dog are listed to the right of the block representing that dog).  WARNING!  If you choose 3 or more generations of descendants, you can very quickly generate HUGE lists of dogs, which may overwhelm your network, or possibly even crash your browser.  You should stick to no more than 2, unless you know your network and computer are up to it. 

If you choose 0 generations of descendants, it will greatly speed up the display of large pedigrees: Do this if you want to concentrate on the ancestors side of things.  Likewise turning off Half Siblings display can spead up the display considerably for some dogs.