Ashley and I met yesterday to figure out the proper workings of the Dropbox and Excel spreadsheets and as she mentioned it looks like it is working well now. I did some final troubleshooting, reading and experiments with it today and came up with this suggestion in case people haven't done so yet:

Go to the Dropbox website and find the download button in the top right. If you download a dropbox folder, you have access to all your files right on your computer. This is handy not only for easier navigation, but it also works for saving items as if they were on your own hard drive (open a file from the dropbox folder on your computer, simply click save when you're finished, and it returns automatically to the dropbox folder). This is also handy for updating files that only you are working on because (contrary to what I thought yesterday Ashley) it works even when not connected to the internet. How? Well it saves the files on your computer and then automatically updates when next connected. This saves a lot of the issues we were having with multiple copies of one document or having things both on computers and online. Hope this makes sense!

As for me, I was with Hannah at St. Ann's in the morning, met with Ashley about the Excel sheet and to discuss archive requirements in the afternoon, and dropped by the Anglican Diocese archives in preparation for my visit on Monday. I was surprised to find out the Christ Church Cathedral is actually a newer building (1929) and that most of their artifacts are from the Second World War. So the archives will be my primary source for that congregation and the others from the 1913-1919 period. When I was there I ran into a city counsellor who was very interested in our project and wants to be kept up to date. Networking! Today as I wait to hear back from churches again, I'm updating my archive folder and continuing background research on the churches so I have a better picture of what to look for in the archives and what Victoria's faith community looked like in 1913. My minutes are for both days because I have to run to my other job right at five today.

Ashley: Was the person you networked with Julie Cormier? I don't know if you were there early enough to meet her. I met with her in the morning and she is very interested in sharing some of her information (her society is in the midst of creating an early-Victoria church walking tour and we will be meeting in a few weeks once that has calmed down for her).

Kirsten: Your Excel sheet is going to be a bit different from everyone else's because you are using a Mac. Let me know if you're having any problems with it, I've left it as is and will take a look at it on your computer. The best thing for us would be either getting Excel for Mac or a program that can save files in Excel for PC format or Ashley may have problems keeping yours up to date/transferring information.