Tom, Dominic and all,
 
I THINK Jeff Schroeder is not charging for his data base.  Maybe costs
only?  And it is really nice! Fun to use and work-saving. And really
attractive. He created it for his wife Lori's collection (she's a fairly
new collector and is starting out right!) a collection which she is
expecting to expand considerably at the COA Convention in Louisville this
year. (Didn't I work that one in nicely?)   I am waiting to get my new
computer to try Seabase out on my own collection (such as it is anymore,
with the "spare time activities" I seem to have taken on).
 
All for now...this note is already more parenthetical stuff and signature
than not!
 
Lynn Scheu
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Louisville KY, near the home of Seabase Conchological Database which is in
Bardstown, KY. BTW, we have one of our convention field trip planned to
Bardstown, Kentucky, a beautiful small town about 30 miles SE of
Louisville. Bardstown is the center for a lot of fine attractions,
including the antebellum mansion, "My Old Kentucky Home" State Park where
Stephen Foster wrote the state song; Maker's Mark Distillery and National
Historical Site, a really fine Civil War Museum, and nearby Perryville
Civil War Battlefield (Western Theater); St. James Protocathedral; the
Kentucky Dinner Train and nearby KY Railway Museum; beautiful old homes;
some of the state's best country hams (try Keanes' country ham...not at all
that salty blackened stuff! Heavenly! I'm a convert, and expect/fear it
might be made from Flying Pigs, fattened on all that Cincinnati birdseed!);
tons of fine antiquing, and  of course, Seabase!
 
>Domonic,
>
>Don't give up on getting one of these new, flashy databases, but in the
>meantime I could still work up something for you on Access97 and you can
>get Access97 with the entire Office97 suite on eBay for less than $15!
>In the meantime, I'll be at COA and if he has a decent product that he
>is willing to share, I'll be happy to send you a copy.
>
>Tom Eichhorst
>
>DOMINIC RAWLINGSON PLANT wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jeff
>> I regret that as a new COA member living in England I will not be able to
>> make to the COA Convention this year but I am very interested in finding a
>> user friendly data base for my collection. Will further information be made
>> available on this after June?
>> Regards
>>            Dominic
>> =====================
>> Dominic Rawlingson Plant
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>> =====================
>>
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>> > From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Seabase Database
>> > Date: 28 April 1999 01:51
>> >
>> > Conch-l,
>> >
>> > Seabase is a Mollusca cataloging/multimedia database.
>> > Originally written in the relational database Microsoft
>> > Access 7.0, the project will be ported to Access 2000
>> > when released in June '99.  Designed initially for my
>> > wife, Lori Schroeder, this project strives to present a
>> > visually attractive and efficient interface.  Access 97
>> > and 2000 provide hyper link capability to keep the
>> > database size smaller and provide increased efficiencies
>> > for larger collections. Searches, queries, forms, data
>> > slip labels, and reports are included.
>> >
>> > Data and taxonomy fields are based on information
>> > presented in COA articles.  One of the most appealing
>> > features is the automatic search and insertion of higher
>> > taxonomy data from past entries when adding another
>> > genus or species of the same type.  Thus eliminating
>> > typing errors of repetitive entries and becoming a
>> > significant time saver for extensive collections.  One
>> > can select a previous entry from a drop down combo box
>> > listing previously entered data or simply start typing
>> > and previous entries appear as each letter is typed.
>> >
>> > Multimedia features include fields for scanned/digital
>> > images, sounds, world map showing the highlighted zone,
>> > and 3D rotating images of the scanned/photographed
>> > shell.
>> >
>> > Genealogists will appreciate what is termed  "Soundex"
>> > search capabilities.  Upon typing in what one thinks is
>> > the name of a shell, the database returns a listing of
>> > other shells that have similar names.  Searches include
>> > searching by any text field including Genus and/or
>> > species.
>> >
>> > See you in Louisville for the COA convention...
>> >
>> > Jeff Schroeder
>> > [log in to unmask]
>
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