On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:18:57 -0700 (PDT), steve <[email protected]> wrote: >What a genealogy program can or should do depends on what the user is >doing. A program that is great for presenting a family tree may not >be suitable for doing a one name study. How do you record that the >John SMITH who enlisted in the 1st Regiment of Alabama Infantry just >might be the same John SMITH who married Mary JONES over in the >neighboring county; but you're not sure. In a one-name study, couldn't you use a simpler database format, rather than a lineage-linked one? > >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. That's where askSam could help you: www.asksam.com it is a better way, in that it is easy to search and produce formatted reports from notes and transcriptions. And no, I don't have shares in askSam, I've just been using it for 20 years to keep track of my genealogical research. -- 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