Hello all,

I feel very timid posting this as I just joined the mail list today, but
I was hoping there might be one of you who would be kind enough to point
me in the right direction.

I'm a museum volunteer in the very small Town of Porter Museum in
Youngstown, Niagara Co., NY.  We've been plugging along all these years
and now we feel that we're ready to enter the 20th century! :-D

We have plans for a "cutting edge" computer system--a processor,
monitor, color printer, flatbed scanner and voice recognition
program--and I've been trying to figure out what we will need for a
computer program that will aid us in cataloging, indexing and making
available to the public the enormous amount of unique valuable
information that we have archived in our museum.

I personally have spent a number of years in putting together in my
computer the genealogy of the many local families and I've written and
published a book for fourth-graders based on the history of the Town of
Porter.  And now I find myself wanting to work further toward making
history come more alive in our community.

I know we're going to need a database program to put it all together.
And that's what I am trying to find information on.  Is there anyone who
can ride to our rescue with a suggestion?

Vee Housman
Past President, Town of Porter Historical Society
Youngstown, NY