Category Archives: Evernote

Dealing with citations

Posted on 28 May 2012 by

The toughest technical challenge I have found with genealogy is citations.  Creating good citations is not easy and it slows down the rest of your work. Yes they are vital to doing good genealogy.  So how do you come to … Continue reading →

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Taking conference notes with Evernote #ngs2012

Posted on 11 May 2012 by

I’ve been using Evernote to take my notes during sessions and it has been very handy.  The key is getting the syllabus and my notes in the same place, but that turns out to be easy to do on my … Continue reading →

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Putting your Information into Evernote Part 4 – Email

Posted on 16 January 2012 by

The final method I will write about for getting information into Evernote is via email.  Putting email messages into Evernote that have some useful details on your research helps you put all of your information into one place, making it … Continue reading →

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Putting your Information into Evernote Part 3 – At the Library

Posted on 13 December 2011 by

Evernote can be handy in a couple of ways when you are doing genealogical research at the library.  First, you have access to all the notes you have already saved.  More importantly, you can add what you learn to Evernote … Continue reading →

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Putting your Information into Evernote Part 2 – Web images

Posted on 27 November 2011 by

In the last post I explained how to save content from web pages into Evernote.  In this post I will add one more way, and that is by importing images.  In genealogy this will mainly apply to scanned documents.  The … Continue reading →

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Putting your Information into Evernote Part 1: Saving Web Pages

Posted on 25 November 2011 by

Earlier I wrote about the advantages of using Evernote for your genealogical information.  I’d now like to discuss different ways to get your information into Evernote.  I’ll be describing a lot of different methods over several posts, but don’t worry … Continue reading →

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Using Evernote for Genealogy

Posted on 23 November 2011 by

Evernote is one of my favorite programs of any type, and it is a big help in genealogy.  It makes it easy to store information and to find it again later on.  It is especially helpful in a research-oriented field … Continue reading →

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