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From: Jon P Czarowitz <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Automated Data Entry
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <485FABD3.2030601@integrity.com>


Where can we get this form?

Jon P Czarowitz
CCUSA National Genealogist
TX - RootsMagic Users Network
http://www.clancunninghamusa.org
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--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Beth Gay <> wrote:

> From: Beth Gay <>
> Subject: Re: [RMagic] Automated Data Entry
> To:
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 8:57 AM
> Dear Doug,
>
> Here is a program written for Family Historian that seems
> to work well
> from the comments. I have not personally used the census
> utility. This
> utility is one example of automated data entry.
>
> >
> http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=153
>
> Best,
> Beth G.
> Auburn, AL
>
>
> wrote:
> Snipped:
> >
> > Thanks for the response, Michael. Earlier, folks were
> "wishing" they could
> > enter an entire family group in one screen. In such a
> routine (if completed
> > and made more generic), one could...
> >
> > 1. Setup the data fields for all persons in Excel (or
> other table) to the
> > data content level available and/or desired
> >
> > [ Note: The above step is the manual data entry, but
> is not requiring
> > constant opening and closing of separate dialogs for
> each person, and has all the
> > data for a person easily in view, rather than hidden
> each time you close a
> > dialog. Another advantage to entering data in tables,
> is that the same table can
> > be accessed by routines to enter its data into more
> than one genealogy
> > program, conceivably even to create a GEDCOM directly,
> addressable by any gen
> > program. Once tables are setup, if using Excel, you
> can setup multiple types of
> > form templates, data integrity verification, reminders
> about critical blank
> > fields, and so on. That itself is daunting, but if the
> module and Excel
> > capability were both previously setup...by someone
> else...and provided...then it
> > would be a matter of using them, which is a fairly
> simple matter. ]
> >
> > 2. Clean up any extraneous unwanted data, review
> all...all in one screen
> >
> > 3. Have columns to check off indicating relationships
> desired to establish
> >
> > 4. Invoke the automation routine which would (per
> setup)...
> >
> > ===a. Read that file
> >
> > ===b. Enter each person according to the control
> fields' relationship
> > settings
> >
> > ===c. Enter all the family group at once without
> pausing between, quickly,
> > member by member, addressing all fact dialogs, data
> fields, and other dialogs
> > all in a single data entry process.
> >
> > *** The table itself becomes an editable history and
> absolutely clear record
> > of what you entered and what data per individual you
> entered...so mistakes
> > can be undone more easily (rather than relying upon
> memory of what you did and
> > results obtained to determine what you did and how to
> undo it). With such a
> > table history, you can see at a glance areas to
> research for additional data,
> > etc. On the other hand, the genealogy programs display
> the data in multiple
> > logical views, and provide reports and other
> functionality beyond what a
> > table would typically offer...meaning the two could
> work hand in hand, rather
> > than one replacing the other.
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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