A few months ago, on the "last post" thread, I mentioned the idea of writing a book. Perhaps I should post this message there, but I'm starting a new thread. Sue me (I probably shouldn't say that with all the lawyers, here, LOL)
Anyway, I think my original idea may end up with way too much information for one book. I already have about 1,100 individual Civil War soldier names for men associated with Campbell County (KY) as well as their unit, rank, company and, for many of them, birth date, birth place, death date and burial place. I've even noted many of them as being disciplined by their unit or wounded/killed in action. I'm not sure that information would be appropriate for a book, partially due to space, but also because of a lack of flexibility.
Right now my idea is to still pursue a book with stories of many of these men. It would be an ordinary book written in sentences and paragraphs and that makes sense, but I was thinking of taking the list of soldier names and creating a website (or adding it to an existing site, perhaps my local historical society's) but have some questions. I feel a website would give more space for all this information, would let me continue to make additions to the information and to correct any mistakes or typos that seem inevitable. Also, I could use links to findagrave pages and information about certain units or battles.
Right now my information is in a spreadsheet. If I do create a webpage (through a site like Wix or something else) is it possible to upload the information from a spreadsheet? Do I need to put it in a database like Access? Is there any other better way of adding that information? If I go that route, I would like the website to make the information sortable in several ways - by last name, unit, birthplace, burial place, etc.)
This is still a preliminary thought- I have more research to do, but I have a lot of information and am trying to think of a way to share it and perhaps make it useful to other researchers.
Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions? Is something like that feasible?
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