Oops! Sorry about my previous post. I somehow sent email and didn't even get started! My 1st question is: what exactly is TempleReady? Is it necessary to use it? And 2nd: what is a concordance? Is it just an index? Laurie in Royal Oak, MI

[email protected] wrote: > > Oops! Sorry about my previous post. I somehow sent email and didn't even get > started! > > My 1st question is: what exactly is TempleReady? Is it necessary to use it? > > And 2nd: what is a concordance? Is it just an index? > > Laurie in Royal Oak, MI Laurie, Temple Ready has to do with the Mormons (Latter Day Saints). If you're not Mormon, you will probably ignore that. If you are Morman, you should already know what Temple Ready is. A concordance is not actually an index, it's a list from which you can build an index, with some word processors (Word, WordPerfect, etc). In it's basic form it's simply a list of things to be indexed. It may look like a list of names (usually a genealogy file will be indexed on names). When I've used a concordance to build an index, I use a genealogy program custom report to generate the list of names in two columns.... The first column lists the name the way it might appear in the text, ie Joe Smith Jim Monroe Charles Brown etc. The second column lists the name the way I want it to appear in the index. ie Smith, Joe Monroe, Jim Brown, Charles (These lists are very easy to generate using a custom report). Then in the Word processor (I use Word), just tell the program to search your file, comparing everything it finds to your "concordance" file (the list of names I described). Word dutifully goes through the file and creates an index, recording the names and page numbers on which they appear. -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/