database
OK, folks. I need a database. I've been avoiding this for years and it's TIME. I need to keep track of the people who appear in my dissertation, or may later appear in my dissertation. It needs to be easy to add and change fields. It needs to deal well with numbers and also with approximate numbers, date ranges and guesstimates. It needs to do cross-referencing, so I can also have entries for places. It needs to deal well with alternate spellings. I'm not a computer idiot, but neither am I interested in spending a lot of time trying to figure things out, so the help program needs to be, well, helpful. (Not, for example, like the help program for Excel which you need an advanced degree to understand). I also need to know someone who uses it who will be willing to help me occasionally. I'm broke, so it can't be too expensive.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?