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Product/Service Name: Interactive Computer Services Inc. Company: My name is Richard Stecenko; I have been working as a computer consultant, under the name Interactive Computer Services, for close to thirty years. I offer a full ... ; 147 Wildwood Pk ; Ph: (204) 453-2052 Graveyard Interactive Graveyard Interactive tracks information on each plot; conducts data searches on name, kin, or other details; and provides reports to support graveyard management and to answer inquiries from family members who are researching their genealogy. The software is simple to use and costs $99. A great idea In 1985, Alistair Palmer, a British vicar, was struggling to manage and track the data for 25,000 individual and family graves in his graveyard. After spending hours paging through the ledgers looking for information about specific people and specific plots he decided that it was time for heavy ledgers to make way for desktop computers. The vicar asked a local software development company to write a software program that would track information about individual and family graves; then he had all of the data from his stack of old ledgers entered into the new program. The church used this software for almost twenty years with no changes and no technical support. In 2003, the church’s new vicar, David Vestergaard, tired of using old DOS software just as his predecessor had tired of using old ledgers. David wondered about a software upgrade to Windows. Interactive Computer Services redesigned and rewrote the software. The result: Graveyard Interactive which was tested by Rev Vestergaard and then launched in May 2004. Yahrzeit In the summer of 2007, a cemetery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan asked if the software handled yahrzeit (anniversary date of death). Two new reports were created: print the 80 yahrzeit after the date of death; print all the upcoming yahrzeit within a manually-entered range of dates. In addition, the data-entry form was modified to record whether the time of death occurred before or after sunset. See the topic, Quick Reports, for an example. Graveyard Detailed Information Easy Searches Quick Reports Download Purchase |
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