Data Base

[steveoc]

Re: Data Base

Andrew, Would you also be willing to email me with some basic information on how you initially set up your data on DVT and how you link it to Reunion? I have downloaded a trial version of DVT and am wondering if this is more program than I need. BUT I have a GREAT need to organize my scanned documents! Many are stored, sort of organized, in my documents folder, but my entire 24" desktop is covered at the moment & I am feeling paralyzed. I can be reached at zweeder at verizon dot net.

On the DEVONthink user forum, I discussed how I organized my genealogy database:

http://forum.devontechnologies.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23429

Andrew has added his voice to the thread as well.

[Jan Mesenig]

Re: Data Base

Thanks for this link. Very helpfull information.

Jan

[steveoc]

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DEVONthink operates very differently from other databases: it is more document centric. To get started, you just need to set up a system of folders aka groups much like one would in the finder.

There is a discussion of DEVONthink and genealogy hereon yet he devontechnologies forum: http://forum.devontechnologies.com/v...hp?f=7&t=23429

Where I share how I set up my database. Re union talk user Allsop is also a member and has chimed in as well.it might be easier to carry on the discussion of DEVONthink over there, rather than working via PMs and emails.

[Susan Freas Rogers]

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Hi Marc-- If it’s OK with you, I’ll send you a reply off-line at the email address you listed.
Terry

Hi Terry, I'd also appreciate your notes on DTP & Reunion. My direct email is
susanrogers [at] earthlink [period] net.

Many thanks,
Susan

[Jan Mesenig]

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Hi Terry,

I too am exploring DTP for my files and would be very pleased with your information on how to use DTP with Reunion. If you could send me your 'set up' instructions I would be very gratefull. My email is jw.mesenig at xs4all dot nl

Thanks,
Jan

[Mel Schneider]

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Terry,

Please send me those instructions for using Devonthink Pro and Reunion together.

Thanks

melvin.schneider@gmail.com

[Terry Smith]

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I've sent you an email directly, Jane. I want to avoid discussing third-party apps on Leister's nickel. If something develops that will be of general interest to the ReunionTalk forum, we can move back here.

Terry

[Jane Davies]

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Hi Terry
Would you mind sending some information on how you use DTP, too?
My email is janedavies at me dot com
Many thanks
Jane

[Terry Smith]

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Hi Marc-- If it’s OK with you, I’ll send you a reply off-line at the email address you listed. Discussions on the use of DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office can get into the weeds pretty quickly even when one tries to keep the altitude of discussion at 20,000 feet!

Terry

[MarcIrish]

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Originally Posted by sgtbob View Post
I'm a bit late in viewing this message traffic, but am interested in the DVP software for my genealogy projects. Could you expand on how you set up the connection between those in Reunion 10 and the DVP? I have about 5,000 photographs and some 5,000 Documents (.pdf, .doc, etc) scanned into my MAC (Mac --> home --> Genealogy --> Docs or Pictures). The DVP program looks promising to keep track of all that paper and scanned data, so I would appreciate some guiding information on how you set up your system and how to use - you can send to me offline at 's2f@cox.net' to preclude using the forum since some folks might not be interested in the details.

Bob

Privately emailed you Bob

I am very interested in this. My email is marcirish@___.com

[Katharine Ott]

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I think you'd be best served by an actual online genealogy database.

TNG - The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building - is a great tool that would be ideally suited to such a venture - anyone you allow to have Edit/Admin rights to the database would be able to add data to it, and you can choose to share the public side of the site with the world at large, or keep it all hidden requiring a password to see anything at all.

http://tngsitebuilding.com/

You can see my TNG site and its output on this page for example

http://lisaandroger.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I16&tree=Roger

(although this site is the result of data entry in Reunion, and then exporting a GEDCOM file from Reunion in to TNG rather than doing the data entry in TNG directly).

(Oh, and since you're related to my wife somehow, I should have provided an example from her TNG site -

http://lisa.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I2098&tree=Lisa

:-)

Roger

Hello Roger - We have decided to proceed with TNG, my research partner in Germany has a website with the needed functions, but he reported that his first attempt to install the TNG software did not work. Would you be willing to give him some advice? You can email me at kathott77 at gmail.com. Thanks! Katharine

[Katharine Ott]

Re: Data Base

I think you'd be best served by an actual online genealogy database.

TNG - The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building - is a great tool that would be ideally suited to such a venture - anyone you allow to have Edit/Admin rights to the database would be able to add data to it, and you can choose to share the public side of the site with the world at large, or keep it all hidden requiring a password to see anything at all.

http://tngsitebuilding.com/

You can see my TNG site and its output on this page for example

http://lisaandroger.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I16&tree=Roger

(although this site is the result of data entry in Reunion, and then exporting a GEDCOM file from Reunion in to TNG rather than doing the data entry in TNG directly).

(Oh, and since you're related to my wife somehow, I should have provided an example from her TNG site -

http://lisa.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I2098&tree=Lisa

:-)

Roger

Thanks for the suggestion Roger (nice touch, sending me a page on my father. Your pages actually look very close to what I was thinking of doing, with plenty of room for explanations and ability to include digital images. It's definitely on my very short list of possibilities. Thanks again!

Kathy Ott

[theKiwi]

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Hello everyone,

A distant cousin and I are embarking on what will probably be a lengthy research project, to document immigrants to America from a little town in Germany - Liedolsheim (Baden). We know lots of the family names from a recently published Ortssippenbuch and from our own family trees, so there's no problem finding names to research. But how to organize it, both during research and for possible publication or sharing opportunities?

Three of us will be doing research, one Mac user (Reunion), and two PC users (one in Germany), so I would think something we could put in Dropbox would be ideal. I really like the idea of designing a Bento template, with fields for vital records, ship manifests, naturalization data, et al, but can the PC users access the template?

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to manage a database like this so we're not just sending data-laden emails back and forth.

Thanks much

I think you'd be best served by an actual online genealogy database.

TNG - The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building - is a great tool that would be ideally suited to such a venture - anyone you allow to have Edit/Admin rights to the database would be able to add data to it, and you can choose to share the public side of the site with the world at large, or keep it all hidden requiring a password to see anything at all.

http://tngsitebuilding.com/

You can see my TNG site and its output on this page for example

http://lisaandroger.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I16&tree=Roger

(although this site is the result of data entry in Reunion, and then exporting a GEDCOM file from Reunion in to TNG rather than doing the data entry in TNG directly).

(Oh, and since you're related to my wife somehow, I should have provided an example from her TNG site -

http://lisa.lisaandroger.com/getperson.php?personID=I2098&tree=Lisa

:-)

Roger

[Katharine Ott]

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I use Bento which is created by Filemaker but a lot simpler than Filemaker Pro. I use it for heaps of things including home inventory, recipes, client records and stock control. Last year I starting using it for logging my family history research, the possibilities are endless.
As far as I know Bento is only available for Mac
S

Hello everyone,

A distant cousin and I are embarking on what will probably be a lengthy research project, to document immigrants to America from a little town in Germany - Liedolsheim (Baden). We know lots of the family names from a recently published Ortssippenbuch and from our own family trees, so there's no problem finding names to research. But how to organize it, both during research and for possible publication or sharing opportunities?

Three of us will be doing research, one Mac user (Reunion), and two PC users (one in Germany), so I would think something we could put in Dropbox would be ideal. I really like the idea of designing a Bento template, with fields for vital records, ship manifests, naturalization data, et al, but can the PC users access the template?

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to manage a database like this so we're not just sending data-laden emails back and forth.

Thanks much

[Lauren Mallory]

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I have privately emailed Bob.

Al, I tried Bento and didn't like it, DTP works great for me.

Andrew

Andrew, Would you also be willing to email me with some basic information on how you initially set up your data on DVT and how you link it to Reunion? I have downloaded a trial version of DVT and am wondering if this is more program than I need. BUT I have a GREAT need to organize my scanned documents! Many are stored, sort of organized, in my documents folder, but my entire 24" desktop is covered at the moment & I am feeling paralyzed. I can be reached at zweeder at verizon dot net.