1. 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

2. backupmytree.com

4.
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

5. genscriber.com

7. 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

9. Google Books

11. “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

13. Google Earth Pro

15. 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/

17. Google Translate App for your cellphone

19. 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

20. Historical maps online

22. 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.

23. History Pin

25. 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

27. One-step webpages by Stephen P. Morse

29. 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

31. pinterest.com

33.
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

34. 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

36. PRDH-IGD Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) University of Montreal

37. 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

39. Scannable and CamScanner

41. 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

42. 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

44. Storyworth

46.
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

47. Evernote

48. 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

49. 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!

50. 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

52. 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

53. 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.

54. You’ll see the Evernote clipper in upper right corner of web browser.

55. On a Mac
Evernote is a small icon at the top of the browser – click on that to “clip” a page

56. When you click the elephant…

57. 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!

58. 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