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Tonight’s focus backupmytree.com genscriber.com Google Books
Google Earth Pro Google translate app Historical maps online historypin.com One-step webpages by Steve Morse pinterest.com PRDH-IGD Scannable and CamScanner Storyworth Evernote
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backupmytree.com
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Free Windows version but no Mac version yet Software automatically finds and creates a remote, off-site copy of all of your family tree files Monitors your family trees for changes and backs up the updated files Provides previous versions of your family tree file should anything become corrupted All of the file formats created by popular family tree software packages are supported Keep deleted files in case you make a mistake You keep all control/ownership over files
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genscriber.com
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Developed for Windows but there is a Mac version
Free Developed for Windows but there is a Mac version GenScriber is a transcription editor for historical records Simple to use and (hopefully) reduces error because split screen is right in front of you Top half of the screen showing the image Lower half is worksheet for transcription Useful for transcribing both free-form text as well as columns of data, such as U.S. census records Designed to be used for easily transcribing digital images of old, handwritten documents
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Google Books
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“Search the world’s most comprehensive index of full text books”
books.google.com/ Free “Search the world’s most comprehensive index of full text books” Doesn’t always have full-text online but does tell you where a book is available Find information about: Places Out-of-print books with genealogical information Topics related to your ancestors
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Google Earth Pro
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Visit the places where your ancestors lived via street view
Free Visit the places where your ancestors lived via street view Have a real understanding of where they lived – “put flesh on the bones” Create a virtual “family history tour” Create your own historical map collection online for free Overlay a historical map on a current map and then go back and forth between them Video about how-to-do map overlays at: genealogy-video-class-by-lisa-louise-cooke/
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Google Translate App for your cellphone
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Go to “Google Play” or App Store
Available for Android and iPhone Free Translate between 103 languages by typing Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and your translation pops up • Instant camera translation: Use your camera to translate text instantly in 30 languages • Camera Mode: Take pictures of text for higher- quality translations in 37 languages • Conversation Mode: Two-way instant speech translation in 32 languages • Does NOT translate handwriting
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Historical maps online
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Historical map websites
David Rumsey Library of Congress University of Texas, Perry Castaneda Library ( Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine United States Digital Map Library (a USGenWeb Archives project) Toronto Public Library maps collections – digital archives ub_date_sort&Nso=0 The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project Between 1874 and 1881, approximately forty county atlases were published in Canada, covering counties in the Maritimes, Ontario and Quebec. Each of the county atlases consisted of a historical text, township and town maps, portraits, views and patrons' directory / business cards. But more important, names of residents were marked on the lots of the township maps in these county atlases.
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History Pin
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Historypin https://www.historypin.org/en/ Can browse for free or join
A place for people to share photos and stories, telling the histories of their local communities Can search by location/topic/organizations Franco-American, University of Southern Maine Historic Biddeford, The McArthur Library
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One-step webpages by Stephen P. Morse
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Contains tools for finding:
Free A metasearch site that let’s you search across multiple genealogy databases with one search Contains tools for finding: Immigration records Census records Vital records, And for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites
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pinterest.com
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You will need to sign up Free Can use on Mac or PC Visual “bulletin boards” around topics or ideas Allows you to bookmark an internet website that you like and go back to it easily You can keep a page “secret” if you don’t want to share it
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Create boards that visualize your family’s genealogy
“Troll” for cousins – share info that you have for others researching your family name Research your family’s name to find others doing the same A great place to get genealogy how-to ideas “Follow” genealogy pages Curtis Library has a genealogy page (and many others!) Go to Pinterest and search for Curtis Memorial Library and explore – or go to the library’s webpage and click on the Pinterest logo
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PRDH-IGD Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) University of Montreal
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https://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/base-de- donnees
Can search for free but to get details, need to purchase a subscription based on number of “hits” you want to explore Affordable – 500 hits costs $50 Canadian The project relies on exhaustive gathering of data from the parish registers of old Quebec A repertory of vital events, 1621–1849 Quebec and French Canada A genealogical dictionary of families, Quebec and French-Canada A repertory of couples and filial relations, 1621–1799 Simplifies searching in another language Groups family information so it is easier to follow generations Identifies all known spouses and children where relevant
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Scannable and CamScanner
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Scannable and CamScanner
Scannable – go to Mac App Store CamScanner – go to Simple scanners to put on your telephone Free OCR App identifies the object to scan, focuses and takes the picture Saved to your camera Fast, adjusts to odd sized documents
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Copies of a lot of pages quickly and cleanly
Does not require any special expertise Can digitize anywhere so materials can be shared Provides OCR so that you can search a document – photo won’t do that
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Storyworth
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Cost of $79 per “storyteller” Each week question prompts are sent to the person from whom you would like their story Each week the person of choice writes a story which is shared with you - they can also record it the story A year’s worth of stories are bound into a keepsake book
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Evernote
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What is so great about Evernote?
Easy to capture info online and find it later Excellent organizational tool Simple to share information Make notes as you go Work across multiple electronic devices
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What is Evernote? Web based app (in the cloud) Allows you to:
You don’t have to keep files on your computer Allows you to: Capture Store Synchronize Across multiple electronic devices Basically – an electronic file cabinet!
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Organizational structure
What you capture online with the Evernote clipper is a note You can also make your own note on Evernote and save it You can organize multiple notes into a notebook Multiple notebooks can be put into a stack
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Having a naming convention for your notes and notebooks will help keep your information organized
Stack notebooks to help organization TAGS! are also very helpful in finding information quickly
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Tags are searchable You can organize tags into hierarchies or categories (just like organizing notebooks into stacks) Tags have a linking system, which will query and pull up all records that reference that particular Tag.
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You’ll see the Evernote clipper in upper right corner of web browser.
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On a Mac Evernote is a small icon at the top of the browser – click on that to “clip” a page
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When you click the elephant…
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Evernote will ask you what you want to save on the page.
You can designate a notebook into which the note should go. When you are done you can be secure in knowing that your research has been saved!
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With Evernote you can also:
Share what you find with other researchers Chat with others while doing research Save s Check out: How to Use Evernote for Genealogy – book available in the Curtis Genealogy room There are a LOT of presentations available for free online – search Evernote and Genealogy Particularly detailed slide show at te-for-genealogists-ngs-2015
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