Many thanks for all the information and generous offer of a demo,
Chris. I received a demo download of TMG from your
original source so it won't be necessary, but the offer is very much
appreciated. The demo was very interesting and clearly TMG is a
boon to anyone researching a family tree but seems too complex and
sophisticated for a family reconsitution. I agree with Wendy that it
looks to be considerably slower than recording directly onto a
spreadsheet.
I am experimenting with Access. When I recorded the entire marriage
register of my research parish for another purpose I did so with an
eventual reconstitution in mind and created appropriate columns. I have
done a small reconstitution of only 50 years which worked quite well
(providing you create a column for rationalised surnames and work from
that). But I am worried about overloading the database with so much
data - having already experienced a hard drive failure on my laptop! -
and I calculate at least 18 columns and possibly around 9,000-10,000
entries - it really is very unweildy.
In the absence of a better method I should be grateful if anyone can
tell me if individual Access databases can cope with this volume.
Wendy or anyone else, contact me if you would like to know which
column headings I used.
Sandie Geddes
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