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    2. Peter J Williams
    3. Hi all I'm the list-owner for the COSBURN-L surname mailing list. We have less than 10 subscribers and have only been operating for a few months, but we are all very keen, and there is not a week goes by without several messages. We would now like to collaborate on a one-name study database, recording all of the data that we have individually collected over the years. We are thinking of a table with fields like: date, place, type of event, person's name, parents or spouse, source, contributor's name & email etc etc. Does ROOTSWEB have some facility for this? We would need a web page that could be accessed by the list members (and ideally restricted to members) for entering records on a web form, and another page for viewing the resulting table of data, perhaps with clickable column headings for sorting and a facility to download a comma separated variable file (or equivalent). The records would be restricted to events involving people with the surname COSBURN and variants. There could be several thousand records involved. So, can it be done via ROOTSWEB, or do we have to build something from scratch ourselves (assuming we can cope with the steep learning curve)? Regards Peter J Williams Largs NSW Australia

    06/20/2001 03:25:56