Hi Bobbi,
Thanks for the help.
Peter
 
 
 
>Access will automatically number your species:
>
>We use Family, Genus, Species, Sub-species, Author & Date, Locality, Date
>collected or acquired, Collector, Size, Grade and Est. Value.
>
>If you go into query - it will automatically total the value.
>
>I just kinda learned as I went....haven't tried putting the photos in
>yet.....maybe at a future time.
>
>We have over 7,000 species to catalog and have only 1/3 of them done in over
>a year.
>We are taking each shell one a time in order to size, grade and put a value
>on them.
>It is a big job!  But I'm sure will be worth it when done.
>
>I then ran hard copies to put in a 3 ring binder to take with us.  Only have
>to rerun single pages occasionally as we add or subtract species.
>
>We sorted ours by species in alphabetical order...since we are doing each
>family separately.    You can sort any way you want.
>
>Peter Egerton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm planning on using Access for my shell database as well.
>> Could you give me few pointers to get started. What tables, fields,
>> forms, etc have you made?
>> So far I'm thinking of one table for recording the shell lots
>> (catalog number, species, location, number of specimens,
>> quality, habitat, etc) and one for taxonomic information (such as
>> genus, species, families and authors, etc). I guess the two would
>> be connected by primary/foreign keys? (I'm new at this.)
>> Any other suggestions would be very greatly appreciated! Thanks.
>> Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
>>
>> You wrote:
>> >I use Access 97 by Microsoft and find it to be an easy to use database.
>> >I know it will also print up labels but I have never set it up for that
>> >and still have to do my own labels.  I believe the Sanibel (Bailey
>> >Matthews) Museum also uses this database and they have it set up for
>> >labels.  I have been working with it for almost a year and there are
>> >still a few little glitches I haven't resolved.  But the work goes on.
>> >
>> >Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
>> >
>> >
>> Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
>> Collector of worldwide Mollusca
>
>--
>Jim and Bobbi Cordy
>of Merritt Island, Florida.
>
>Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
>Caribbean & Florida Shells
>
>Bobbi in Shell Creations
>
>
Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca