Michelle
If you create a web page with, say, the 1880 Census for your county - THAT
is a database. A database is a compilation of data - there is nothing that
says your database must be in a particular for (i.e. Cgi script)
If you created an Excel spreadsheet and used it to formulate your records
and then put THAT on your website, you have created a 'database'...
I hope this helps!!
One of the 'problems' I've seen, when going to other State and their county
web pages, is the lack of any kind of researchable materials... Yes, there
is a link to USGenWeb, and yes, there is a link back to the particular State
GenWeb but there is really no means of research material for the county!
Maybe that's what the push was for with the other State - they wanted to see
more research material available on each of the county sites rather than
just a link or two...
Jeannette
Douglas County
From: Michelle Laycock <genkitty(a)sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:15:37 -0500
To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] County Reviews
Resent-From: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:26:40 -0600
I don't want to change the route of the current discussion ...or maybe I
should! :)
Anyways,
I need something clarified... please. I don't know which person it was
but someone who had a county in Iowa was criticized for not having a
database on their site...
can you please tell me how to GET database space for that!!!???! I had
plans to create a database and was told last year that rootsweb doesn't
allow cgi scripts. Now tell me HOW Iowa can require databases?!!
Am I, like, totally missing something? Or what?
Michelle Laycock
Racine/Kenosha
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