Geoff,
I can understand why one might wish to keep everything in one
database; however, I have found that splitting has been helpful.
Primarily because my major publishing vehicle is the web.
First, I have two large single name studies: Davidson and Stedman
families. Yes, I do have a link or two between them, but the focus of
people visiting one of these studies is that one family and not the other.
Second, I have several immigrant families at my children's
great-grandparent or 2g-grandparent level that there is little
likelihood of there ever being a connection with the other families.
In many ways the research on those families takes on entirely
different sources and issues. Keeping them separate has seemed to make sense.
The strategy that I take with respect to minimizing the duplicate
data entry is that I have designated one line as the "main" line, and
I try to maintain a single point of overlap. So, if I want to create
a single database, I have a simple merge process.
I think the problem in this process for the user is that genealogy
software developers have not accepted that people do use multiple
databases and have not considered how to link data from one database
to data in another without having to merge the databases.
For instance, if I want to link a spouse or a parent, I would like to
specify not just who in this local database, but also who in some
other local database.
And if I create a report: either ancestor or descendant that it be
able to collect data from either.
I would like a program that is able to display an index of several
databases, not just the current database.
There is a web publishing package that allows you to load several
trees into a single database so that they share a common index. But
there is not the capability to link people from one to another and
develop reports that cross between the various trees.
Just my opinion, I might be wrong...
john.
Nashua, NH
At 11:28 AM 3/6/2006, Geoff Rasmussen wrote:
See today's article at
http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html. Your
comments are welcome and appreciated....
Thanks,
Geoff Rasmussen
Millennia Corporation
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