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In 1996 we had no automated query programs.

Later on a couple of query programs were developed, but usually broke after awhile and data was lost.

Sue Soden, started this system of recording queries in 1997.

We call it the manual query system and for detailed queries still use it.

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Old queries recorded by the year

Use file find (upper left) to find names in these files.

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