Excellent classes so far.
I have been using Act! for a number of years to keep track of several things.  One is a music competition that my wife runs.  For each competitor, there are such fields as teacher, school, concerto, and so forth.  We like to keep a lot of data for the current year, but then delete a good bit of it for archival purposes.  However, we need to keep teacher, school (as of the year the contestant entered) and other matters AS OF THAT TIME.  It seems to me, and I am sure I am getting ahead of myself, that entering the data in the field using the combo field or whatever, rather than creating a link, would preserve the data as it existed in 2014, and it the teacher moved from one school to another, that data would not change, nor if the contestant returned in a following year, with a different teacher or from a different school, that information would not get confused by relationing.  
Again, I know I am getting ahead of myself, but I envision two databases:  on for current information, and then, moving selected information about current year contestants to a cumulative archive of all years, and deleting current contestant information for 2014 from the database and using the same forms and tables for 2014 (schools and teachers and so forth would change, but that would be all right under these circumstances).  Am I making sense and am I heading in the right direction?
And is there a reasonably simple, as well as easy, way to migrate from Act to Access?