On Mon, 23 May 2011 11:30:28 -0700 (PDT), Tom Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote: >How do you want to work with that evidence to decide who the real persons >were? Imagine -- you have collected 100 items of evidence. You want to compare >them in many ways to decide who was you. So you need to search through them >looking for a specific name, or a specific year, or a specific place. You >don't know who the people are yet, and you are trying to figure that out. If >all these records were on paper, or in word processing files or in image >files, how are you going to find the data you need quickly. > >I am convinced that once you reach record-based genealogy, you need to get >your evidence records codified into records in a software program. I >would like that software program to be the same program I use for genealogy, >but today's programs don't seem to support this idea very well. If you had >those evidence records codified somehow, you would have an excellent solution >to the searching and thinking problem. Your software could instantly retrieve >all evidence records containing a certain name, or a certain year, or a >certain place. askSam can do most of that. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

> askSam can do most of that. > As a Mac guy I didn't know much about askSam. Looking at it now, it seems a good solution. Personally, I want my evidence in my genealogy program with a seamless connection between evidence and conclusion data, but if I were forced to used two programs, one for evidence and one for my persons, this looks like a good solution. I see there are some possible Mac programs to help out, one named CircusPonies. Tom