This is a brief tour. If you click on something below,
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To return here, just close that tab. Okay?

Welcome

First is a Main (Welcome) page for the database.
This should open from a link on our website.

• To look at the Welcome page, click here.

Persons

Essentially, this is a database of Persons.

• To see a list of Persons, click "Search: List all persons" on the Welcome page.
• To see the identification (names) for one Person, click a "Ref#" on that list.
• To see a Person's life history, click a pencil icon on that list.

Note: Only registered users can change the data.

Searching

You can find people by name, or find people who share certain details, or list people mentioned in a given source. The result of any search is a list of Persons.

• To search by name, enter "Pomp Spring" in "Search: By name" on the Welcome page.
        Hint: To find people, you can just enter part of the name.
• To search by history, click "Search: By events & details" on the Welcome page.

For more about Searching, see the Help section.

Events & Details

Each Person has a life history – composed of Events – and Details about those Events. Some Events and Details may be known, some unknown.

An Event is associated with a Date. One person can have several Events on different dates. For instance, a Person can have two "Work" or "Military" records.

The database has a special Event, called "About". That's simply an observation of the Person. For example, it could be a census record or a probate inventory. And it also has a Date.

Types of Events

The database has a "master list" for types of Events and Details. For example, the wedding of a Person on a date is an Event. In that case, "Marriage" is the type of Event. These Event Types are just words used in all the life histories. We can see – and add to – this "master list" any time.

• To see the "master list," click "Reference: Master list (...)" on the Welcome page.

Sources

This database serves as a directory for our research, so it has citations for our Sources.

• To see the Sources, click "Search: List all sources" on the Welcome page.
• To see the basic data for one Source, click a Source "Code" on that list.
• To find people named in a Source, click a "Persons" icon on that list.

So... that's the tour.

Thanks!

We appreciate any suggestions for improvements to the database.