<p>There are two ways to eat an elephant, you can try to eat it all at once, or you can carve it up and eat it over a year, this is easy, especially if you have a very large freezer :-)</p><p>Our hymn book contains about 700 hymns, my database contains about 70 at this point. Each week when I get the list of songs for the service, I go looking for the ones we don't have already, then I add them. Title is the title it's in the book as, alternate is the title it is commonly known by, if different. I usually grab the lyrics off the net, then match those to the book, it's tedious, but I expect within a year all the ones that need to be in, will be. </p><p>If you have some computer programming skills, the songs are kept in an SQLite database, this makes it easy to get a lot of information in, in a short period of time, especially if you know a language like Perl, Python or TCL which are particularly good at string mangling. Especially if you have it all on a data CD, pull it in reformat and write out to the database. </p><p>Another thing, if your in the Sally Ann, talk to some other Sally Ann churches, someone may have done this already.</p>