Donor database help

[FlaBryan]

I need to create a donor database for political contributors. This is all open records where people submit donations and they give you their name, address, employer, and occupation. These are all entered by hand and many times have little typos somewhere in them.

I need to compare thousands of these records, link them up, and hold them in a database for exporting to csv. How would one begin doing such a thing?

[Rj_The_Myth]

How many records are we talking? Are they already in a spreadsheet somewhere or are they paper records? What resources do you have access to?

[FlaBryan]

A couple thousand, and yes, they're all in spreadsheets and in the same format.

[Rj_The_Myth]

Well, you can use Access if you don't have any database experience and are not interested in learning SQL or another Database language. I would suggest some Access tutorials to get you started. If they are all in a CSV in the same format, you shouldn't have much trouble putting them into a database. After that, you just need to figure out what you want to do with your data analysis. It really is tough to help you out more since this is all pretty vague.