Long overdue post
First, our apologies for neglecting tuell.net lately. Life is full of distractions from work, family, home projects and too many interests. Genealogy pretty much slipped to the back of my mind until our annual genealogy.com subscription came due — a significant financial reminder that I should be getting my money's worth from it.
However, I became distracted updating a home theater, eliminating lots of obsolete equipment. It was nice to get all those bulky black boxes off the shelf, but the downside of eliminating a 200-disk CD changer is ripping a couple hundred CDs (plus 50 or so more that weren't in the changer) onto a hard drive.
Also, during a reinstall on my laptop, I inadvertently deleted my backed-up database of movies. That meant reentering the info on about 250 DVDs.
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Database of DVDs?
Is your database done with MARC records? Just a thought, it's an option that gives you lots more search options. Plus, you can get the marc files from lots of public libraries for downloading.
Dianna
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Hi Dianna. If you are referring to my movie database, it is a proprietary application from Collectorz.com I like it because I can keep a copy on their site and access the files from anywhere — including my Android phone. That comes in hanndy when I'm in a store and can't remember whether I already own a particular movie, just looked at a review or saw it on late-night TV. The 300 movies in my collection exceed my memory capacity.
On this site, I use a MySQL database with three content management apps — Drupal, Gallery 2 and The Next Generation Genealogy. (TNG and Gallery2 are nested in the Drupal installation. TNG will import and export GEDCOM files, so every couple of months I export ann updated GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker and import it on this stie.
That's more answer than you asked for, but I tend to get carried away.
Tom
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