Re: COMP: genealogy database

Way back, Sharon McAllister posted something on the subject.  To my
knowledge, she no longer has a catalog, but is still lurking out there &
might add something to what she said in 1996. [I found this post by
searching for
McAllister AND pedigree]:

<28 Jul 96 15:53:11 EDT
....The special pedigree analysis program is not widely available.  I
list it in my
                   catalog, and it can be purchased directly from the
author, but I don't know of
                   any other source.  For many years, I used a program
that I wrote myself.  It was
                   fast and efficient, convenient for the computer
literate but not for the
                   non-programmer.  It proved the key, however,  to
several of my breeding
                   breakthroughs.  For example:  the pseudo-plicata
arilbreds (like DREAMCATCHER
                   and ENGRAVED INVITATION).  I'd probably have produced
a few more with a
                   hit-or-miss approach, but the pedigree analysis
program made it possible for me
                   to trace diverse lines back to their common ancestors
and identify descendants
                   most likely to be carriers and therefore worth
testing.

                   Ralph's program, OTOH, is menu-driven and requires no
programming skills to use.
                   For those who use a checklist to look up an
individual iris, who _may_ sometimes
                   go on to look up its parents, this is probably
overkill.  But if you like to
                   trace all the way back to species, a program like
this can condense a long
                   evening's manual labor into a few easy minutes at the
computer.    ...Sharon McAllister  >

--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
photos archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index