SpeedREG

Welcome to SpeedREG, the recommended utility for entering Baptism, Marriage and Burial information from church registers for the FreeREG project.

• About SpeedREG
• Downloading and installing SpeedREG
• Running speedREG
• Uploading final files to FreeREG
• SpeedREG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

General Information about SpeedREG

SpeedREG is the recommended utility for entering Baptism, Marriage and Burial information from church registers for the FreeREG project.

The SpeedREG software was written by Peter Cox and is no lonnger under development or supported.

This program was developed in QuickBASIC (a DOS programming language) to see if productivity gains could be achieved by using "smart input" rules. If the system proves popular it may be redeveloped in Visual Basic for Windows, this will however be an expensive and time consuming commitment.

SpeedREG offers:-

• Once only input of heading details such as your name and email address.
• Automatic creation of a comma delimited file ready for sending to FreeREG.
• Single keystroke copying of the entry above.
• The ability to autocopy or autoskip fields through a batch. This speeds up entry when a particular source does not contain all possible fields or if a column is the same right through the batch.
• Automatic capitalisation of each word. You don't have to worry about correct capitalisation, let SpeedREG do it for you.
• Gives a list of possibilities (a Pick List) as typing progresses in such fields as Forename with a "quick pick" option. e.g "9" will type in "William" for you, "g1" will type "George".
• Allows you to invoke Notepad to deal with large Notes.
• and lots more!

In the screen shot below, you can see that this is the 6,698th entry in this batch. YKS, Rotherham, and All Saints have been entered by the program automatically. I typed in the date as 23 jan 1845, and it made the J upper case, and as I start to type "Catharine" I have got as far as entering "ca" and the pick list has sprung into life. All I need do now is press "7" to complete it. I just need to enter the surname and age (and that will accept "infant" or "3y5m" too), "daughter of" in the Relationship field, father's and mother's names (pick lists work on those too!), and mother's surname if different. In "abode" the word "Conisborough" has been entered previously, so I'll be able to type "c1" and have the pick list put it in for me. The [Tab] key will jump me to the next record ready to enter the burial date. The program even keeps a note of how long you have spent entering data.

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Last update 19 March 2008/RN