Event-based database software for historians, biographers and genealogists - redux

[Steve Hayes]

There has been some discussion in soc.genealogy.computing about event-based
software, and also software for recording evidence. This has come up before,
and I still feel the need for such software, and have yet to find it.

We are spoiled for choice in lineage-linked programs, but I don't know of any
event-based programs that will do what I want - namely to record events, and
the people and organisations associated with those events.

The links would not necessarily be genealogical, but should include friends,
employers, yeachers, pupils, colleagues and even enemies.

I think a program that could do this would ne of interest not just to family
historians, but also to general historians, biographers and even detecitives
(where the "events" could be related to a crime, or a series of crimes, and
the "people" would be the suspects and their associates.

I've tried to summarise the needs in a blog post at:

http://su.pr/2vQjRv

and sample database tables are available for download from the files
section of the genealogy software forum at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gensoft/

I'm reopening this subject because I really would like to see (and be able
to use) such a program before I die.

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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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