Description

Using the ledgers and remembering that people might be mentioned in either the "LastName" field or the "Company" field, search for the following famous, important, or locally prominent people in the ledgers. Report on what happened, if there is a pattern to their business dealings, and anything interesting that might have been going on. If possible see if you can identify what type of business or pursuit each person follows.

When working with this and most other searches DO NOT use the date as a means of sorting the records. Since all the records were originally entered in date order they will automatically list in correct date order for you. As it turns out our date format (mm/dd/yyyy) is not interpreted correctly by the sorting system and instead of giving all of a specific year it instead first lists all of the records for January (01) by date, ignoring the year completely. The sort option can be useful especially if you are searching for items and want them sorted according to company or last name but not for dates.

You may want to run this as a formal hunt with two winners if each group or each student has a computer connected to the internet (we hope our computer can handle the traffic but then there is only one way to find out!). Provide a prize for the first person to find and document all the names and provide a prize for the most thorough documentation.

We will be adding to this list over time.