Re: [LDS] Indexing a book with lots of names and locations

[Ellen Naliboff]

GEDCOM was developed early on in the process of making genealogical
databases user-friendly. It was adopted as a universal file. You have
not been able to read it with any sense if you opened it as a text file.
Download PAF from the Familysearch.com (it's free), then import GEDCOM
to that program. Everything will fall into place! The advantage is that
you can share your information with relatives regardless of the
genealogy program they use.
Don't confuse a genealogy program with any other database (either Excel
or Access). Each has a job which it does  superbly. Indexing a book is
not one of them for any purpose-made genealogy program. 

Ellen

Everett MARSHALL wrote:
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Thanks for your letter.
> Excel is possibly the most popular 'spreadsheet program' used as a database.
> It is so user friendly and excellent for single or multiple sorts.
> 
> Gedcom is a mystery to me.  I have opened a gedcom file in a text editor and seen 
>the 'format' of headings duplicated
> many, many times for every 'entry'.  The purpose seems to be for exchange of info 
>from one genealogical program to
> another.   It certainly is NOT as popular as Excel.
> 
> What do you like about GEDCOM?  Do you feel it is better than Excel because you can 
>export it to another user?
> Would you use GEDCOM to ' Index a book with lots of names and locations?'
> 
> I cannot compare Gedcom - as I do not know it.
> I have seen recently that LDS -  may  have released a NEW version of Gedcom.  I do 
>consider looking closer at this.
> Are you aware of the recent GEDCOM version?
> I do not see printed books about Gedcom.  Have I not looked in the right places?
> Please comment.
> everett
> 
> ~~
> 
> Joe Louks wrote:
> 
> > Everett,
> >
> > I say to each his own. The only problem that I have encountered with
> > your approach has been the sharing of data. The Gedcom system allows me
> > to send and recieve with having to print out and re-type to fit my
> > system.
> >
> > Joe
> > [snip]
> 
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