[Babase] Updating Members for Changed Snames

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:05:05 -0400


Karl,

I had in my mind that manual changes to members was not a good thing.  
Rather, members should be rebuilt by running the reinterp program 
following changes to the biograph and/or census tables.  But would 
changing the snames for TT and ED to three letter codes be an exception? 

I played around with this in an old version of BaBase to test out both 
options (running the program vs. manual update).  With regard to relying 
on the reinterp program, I can't seem to get it to work correctly for 
these guys.  I first made changes to biograph and census, checked for 
earliest census date, and followed the prompts in the reinterp pop-up 
window.  I'm not sure if this is because I'm typing something in wrong, 
or if it has to do with the fact that these are old records (dating back 
to the early 70s) and not handled the same way as more recent 
census/interpolation rows in members.  In contrast, manually updating 
members is a breeze.  My only concern is that this is "bad practice" and 
might haunt me later on.

Thanks for your input,
Catherine