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From: "Henry Brownlee" <>
Subject: Re: Cemetery reading
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:16:05 -0500


Lesley Robertson wrote in message <7lhrts$rbg$1@news.tudelft.nl>...
>
>AJH <> wrote in message
>news:...
>> In article <7ler89$3ca$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, writes
>> >I've recently finished a cemetery reading, and was wondering if there
was
>any
>> >computer software that would alphabetize the names. I have over 3000 of
>them,
>> >and don't really want to do them manually. Any help would be
>> >appreciated.Thanks, Larry
>> >
>> >
>>
>> MS Access, any spreadsheet, MS Word ...
>>
>> I should think it'd happen easily in MS Works, but I'm not installing it
>just to
>> check <g>
>>
>Yes, I use Works for just this sort of thing - being simpler, it doesn't
get
>as easily upset as Access (I have both) by odd things. I also use it to
sort
>material from the Origins database after converting that to comma-separated
>ASCII files.
>Using any sort of decent database gives you all sorts of flexibility, not
>least the ability to sort by year, name or place depending on the
>requirements of that particular session .
>Lesley Robertson
>

I use dBase III+ on my old DOS machine for my cemetery listings. Normally I
list by Row and Lot number in order to show the surrounding "neighbors."
Although in our local cemetery, most interred here are related <g> I can
still sort alphabetically for index purposes, but even then the Row & Lot
numbers are shown on the report.

Henry

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