I have preferred to leave fields blank unless historical data are available. In general, dates have been specified only when the evidence is meaningful. I have not, for example, entered a general flourishing date for all records, because this would obscure the more precise dates where they are available. Similar considerations apply to location fields. A blank field indicates the need for further work.
All records contain a comments field near the bottom of the record.
This field stores abbreviated bibliographical references used to create the record. Extended bibliographical information may be found in the Bibliography file for the commentator. In general, I have attempted to convert geographical locations to their modern counterparts, at least at the country level. While the program permits somewhat flexible examination of the data, the greatest flexibility can be achieved by using MS Access 2.0 or higher. The queries are invisible to those using only the Commbase browser, but users of Access may execute or modify them, or indeed create new queries of the data.