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Electronic record
* are more than just data or information
  - password protected with access restricted to authorized users
  - public records
  - records that are stored in a form only a computer can process
* permit the sharing of information by the byte rather than the megabyte.

Financial record
* Use adequate financial records to accomplish personal financial goals.
* are probably the least kept and the least studied of all records.

Fossil record
* indicate that fungi preceded plants on dry land
  - sexual reproduction has been occurring for at least one billion years
  - trees and their root symbionts share a long evolutionary history
* indicates that horses have gradually increased over geologic time.
* provide evidence that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
* shows many types of plants and animals.
* suggest that the sperm delivery required lysis of the megasporangium wall.

Geological record
* indicate that climate change has taken place repeatedly.
* suggest that the ice ages developed slowly but disappeared relatively quickly.
* supports catastrophism because of discontinuities and existence of fossils.

Judicial record
* are also a rich primary source of economic and social history
  - part of the student's educational record
* can also give a lot of information on relationships between people.

Ledger
* are books.
* are located in accounts
  - desks
* are used for accounts
  - listing items
  - record sales
  - that keeps accounting transactions by accounts

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General ledger
* are ledgers
  - located in offices
* are used for accounting
  - business accounting
  - record keeping

Marriage record
* are the courthouse records with the most clearly relevant connection to genealogy.
* contain the names of both spouses and date of marriage.

Personal record
* are important to any track and field athlete, win or lose
  - located in homes
* contain personal information about identifiable indivduals.

Public record
* are a key source of information about government actions and decisions
  - rich source of personal identifying information for businesses and people
* guard the rights of citizens and chronicle local history.
* is, by definition, an account of happenings that affect the public.

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Register
* are a group of cells used for memory addressing, data manipulation and processing
  - small set of on-chip locations that can be accessed very quickly by the processor
  - high-speed memory locations in the processor itself
  - lists of job applicants that have passed an exam or evaluation process
  - logical groupings of one or more audio output channels
  - memory devices
* are part of furnaces
  - regulators
  - sets of flip-flops which can hold data
  - storage locations internal the the processor
  - timbre
  - verbs
* originate in laryngeal function.

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Accounting system
* Many accounting systems use encryption.
* Most accounting systems have a method of measuring usage
  - the ability to report on budgets vs. actuals
  - provide the ability to compare actuals to budgets
* are one of the big institutions connected directly to task environments
  - pervasive throughout any organization
* deal with ledgers, customers, orders, invoices etc.

Studbook
* contain the family trees of every individual animal in the zoo population.
* help zoos keep track of animal populations.
* maintain the records on an entire captive population of a species.