steve <[email protected]> wrote: >Right now I'm sorta trying to do a locality study. I'm completely >clueless as to how I should organize things. I wind up just making >lots of transcriptions and notes and saving them as text files. >Surely there is a better way. For my French work, I use a separate spreadsheet page for each type of record for each parish, so that the most common data items found in extracted records is all in the same column(s), and more or less in the same format. I still can put have some freeform notes off to the right, but I don't commonly need to. I also generate pages that have the same records sorted on various keys. I then in a separate pass, may add the people in these records to a data base and link them together based on parentage or espousal, when I can identify the people. In my case, probably 90% of all people in one kinds of record, show up in some other record (either as parent or spouse, or a death record for someone who was born), and I thus end up with a huge and convoluted tree relating almost everyone to everyone else. But this is totally separate from my spreadsheets of source data. lojbab --- Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist [email protected] Lojban language www.lojban.org