Since Clooz has been on the market, I've been asking for suggestions from users on how to improve the program. I have incorporated all of the suggestions that I have been able to so far. I am always open to suggestion and this is a great time to send these suggestions because work will begin soon on Clooz version 2.0. This version will be written in Visual Basic, which will give me a lot more flexibility with a lot of the items that people are asking for, such as better reports and search capabilities. Some suggestions received are very doable, while others will take a lot of work or may not even be possible or in the realm of the mission of the program. In my use of Clooz, I have never relied a lot on the reports, which is probably why the reports aren't what a lot of people would like them to be. I do most of my analysis right in Clooz. And if you wonder if I use the program all that much--I do. A lot of little tweaks and improvements happen to the program because I am a constant user of the program. I'm trying very hard lately to get all of my papers entered and filed because I'm tired of not knowing everything I have when I go on a research trip. I loath having extra paper, which is why I don't print a lot of the reports. So, your suggestions are extremely useful in this regard because I need to know how you want the reports to retrieve your information. In response to Franklin's message below, even if the reports aren't exactly as you would have them be today, Clooz still stores all of the data. This means that if you need a specific report to do a specific thing, the data will be there, just the report needs to be created. If you're happy with Excel, fine, but Excel is not a relational database and can't do the same things that Clooz can do in that regard. At 07:17 PM 8/22/00 -0400, FWI wrote: >I am also very interested in this very problem or challenge. In fact, if >Clooz can not do something that approximates what Karen needs or wants >regarding Census Data analysis, Clooz will be of limited use for me. I have >not yet decided to buy Clooz for this very reason. I have downloaded the >Manual and am reading it and reading notices on the Clooz List. > >I will stick with my use of Excel to do my Census Analysis if Clooz can not >do a better job. >Franklin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Karen Chappell" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:26 PM >Subject: [Clooz] > > > > Group, > > > > I appreciate all the hard work Liz has put into the program. But I too, >would like to see, it perform more indexing. For instance, I carefully >enter where the parents of each person are born. But, the only report that >contains this information is the report that shows that actual census. > > I would like to see a report where you pull up that individual and it >shows the locations where the census says his parents lived for each census >report on that individual. (Say for instance, you have four census reports >for that individual.) Obviously, you would expect these to say the same >thing. But how would you know there was a discrepancy unless you manually >look at each census? If three of these reports say the same thing and one >is different, you might be able to start concluding that the information in >the "odd" report was given by a neighbor or someone who didn't know all the >details for that family. > > Another suggestion, what about a report that shows discrepancies between >the census information you have entered and the data in the people list. >You could look for ages that are more than two years different from the age >expected by the birth date posted in the people list. > > Has anyone created their own specialized queries or reports? Is so would >you care to share with the group? > > Karen Chappell > > > > Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.ancestordetective.com/clooz.htm Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com