Chris, You may not be aware that Legacy is an SQL DB with an Access based front end. Ron Ferguson Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Christopher Gray via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >Good morning Norman - your stated reason for joining the Guild is not >uncommon - I too joined because I had so much data unrelated to my line of >research. > >Spreadsheets are widely used for gathering data together in a way that can >be readily indexed or cross-referenced - and Excel is a commonly used tool. >There are many, many members who are experienced in using this approach. > >Some use the Custodian tool. This was developed by members of the Guild >specifically for One-Name Studies and is geared towards enabling easy >recording and assimilating seemingly unrelated data from a wide range of >sources. > >Many people use hand-written records and some keep their data in a >word-processor (e.g. Word). Others record it directly onto a web-site (e.g. >a "blog"). > >Lots of different approaches - the problem many have is finding one that >suits their way of working. Then one needs to recognise that, as one gains >more experience of what it is that one is aiming to do and how one prefers >to do it, then the original choice of tool can be outgrown. I frequently >find that trying to guess what type of tool I may need in the future is >wasting my time and I need to plump for a widely used one I feel comfortable >with. In my case it was the spreadsheet in Works. I'm now starting to >investigate the use SQLserver with an MSaccess front-end - but Excel is >still my main data holder. > >So - choose what you are comfortable with. > >Chris > >-----Original Message----- >From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >Behalf Of Norman Thornton via >Sent: 06 December 2014 15:18 >To: Paul Howes; goons@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [G] Guild Marriage Index > >Hi, I am a new member and was greatly encouraged by Mr Howes' thoughts. The >reason I joined the guild was because of the wealth of extraneous Thornton >data I was collecting as I singlemindly plodded on with my own line of >research. To me it seemed sad there was no way of storing all this valuable >data that had no direct bearing on my research, this seems to mirror some of >his thoughts. >I am interested in databases and what form they take. > Having hit a brick wall, I decided to continue my own researcher by >indexing all the Thorntons or related name variants in the Old Parish >Records in Scotland. I did it by eye onto a word page and I doubt it could >be readily copied. similarly the related research on all the Thorntons in >the 1851 Census in West Lothian is probably not in an acceptable form for >copying. > I have found some new variants of my name And am contemplating updating >first exercise using Excel to sort the whole data base. I would have thought >this would be one suitable storage vase, as it is commonly available, and >therefore when superceded [as is the fate of all things it seems], the IT >community will produce a programme to transcribe it into the latest format. > As I am new to the Guild I would be interested in feedback. Norman >Thornton > > > > > _____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message