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R-Comp announce new Family History research software
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R-Comp is pleased to announce the release of a major new application
for anyone using RISC OS computers for family history / genealogy
research.
DP Genealogy Records (we're still working on a sexy name...
suggestions welcomed!) provides a comprehensive system for recording,
indexing and linking together all the multitude of different kinds of
data and materials gathered during family history research...
Marriage certificates, baptisms, births, death records, gravestones,
war graves, military honours, census records, wills and probates,
photos, files of GEDCOM information, books and even correspondence
with other genealogists can be stored, and linked together via unique
personal and family identifiers and a central "master index". This
allows you to click through, finding people and using all the sources
of information to link people/data together to power your family
history research.
Anyone involved in genealogy will know just how much paperwork
is involved, and how linking things together, and finding (and more
importantly, keeping track of!) all the different information can be
the most time consuming part of the activity. Then, trying to
sift through everything and figure out who's who, and how they all
fit together... That's where this software comes in.
The system has over 70 tables/views of information available,
comprehensively covering the whole spectrum of genealogy research.
HOWEVER, you *only* need to use the bits you're interested in at
any one point in time!
R-Comp's Andrew Rawnsley stressed that there is nothing else like
this for RISC OS machines, and that it complemented existing
family-tree software. Creation of the family tree is very much the
"end product" of family history research, but for most people, it
is the researching, exploring and learning about the people; how
they interacted and lived, that provides the addictive nature of
the activity. That's where our software fits in - it provides
the tools designed to aid your research and record all your
findings, enabling cross referencing and the gradual piecing
of all the information together.
The software includes many aids to speed things up, for example
a "scratchpad" allowing common information to be stored and
"drag'n'dropped" into anywhere else, as well as a 2009 edition
of the popular RISC OS utility TextAid. It even includes a "notes"
system for keeping track of what you have and haven't done -
for those times when "real life" intervenes and you have to
stop to eat, sleep or get kicked out of the library at closing
time!
Which reminds us to point out that the software is ideal for use
on laptops, too. You can take it in with you when looking
up information, and fill in all your findings for future study.
The key is to provide space for all the information, and also
links to allow external files, notes, pictures, scans and other
primary data to be linked in. This way you can have searchable,
quick access to all your findings.
Conceptually similar tools on other platforms are usually rather
expensive (because of the development time involved) but we'll
be aiming to make this affordable for every RISC OS user
interested in family history.
This is made possible because the software is powered by our
DataPower engine, although you don't have to own DataPower to
use it (it is a self contained product). If you *do* own
DataPower, you can if you wish, look in and see how things
work, and make changes to the structure and functionality of
things. However, there's no need to do so as the software is
fully-functional "out of the box".
On other platforms, it is quite common for applications to be
built on top of databases such as Access, SQL-server or the
like - any system that needs to record and retrieve information.
This hasn't happened in the same way on RISC OS, and this
software represents the first in what we hope will be a series
of programs harnessing DataPower's inherent power and flexibility
as a data management system.
One of the advantages of this approach is that the software
will also work (at least for information storage/retrieval)
on Windows systems, as well as RISC OS, thanks to the DataPower
Reader for Windows, so enabling the results of your
endeavours to be shared with other members of your family.
The software will be available at the Wakefield show, and we
hope that everyone with even a passing interest in family history
will stop by and check out this major new application.
--
R-Comp
22 Robert Moffat, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6PS
Tel: (+44) 01925 755043 Fax: (+44) 01925 757377
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/
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