Blog: Using Genealogy Gadgets & Apps (overview tips)
As family historians, we enlist a vast range of tools to help us to keep our research organised, up to date, preserved for the future and fit for purpose today.
As family historians, we enlist a vast range of tools to help us to keep our research organised, up to date, preserved for the future and fit for purpose today.
At the first Genealogy Gadgets Club meeting, at which the topic was Family Tree Maker, an attendee at the meeting, Jane, asked how to create a list of people from a particular place. Matt Bess from Family Tree Maker provided the detailed answer below.
'Modern family history and software tools have grown intertwined in a way that is almost impossible to disentangle,' writes Phil Isherwood. His aim is to introduce people to at least one new tool to help them do their family history better. Watch Phil's presentation and find out more.
Prudence Dwyer, the Creative Family Historian, shares her thoughts and experience on useful apps to help us write our family stories.
At the May Genealogy Gadgets Club meeting Dr Sophie Kay discussed the benefits of visualising family history research in map format, and demonstrated, step by step, how to accomplish this with Flourish.
At the December 2023 Genealogy Gadgets Club meeting, Wayne Shepheard demonstrated a selection of family history software and website tools that are useful for creating an inventory of the errors that may have crept into our research.
In the December Study Club meeting, Wayne Shepheard talked about the different software options for picking up in inconsistencies in your online family tree – with tips on how to go on to tackle these.
Mary Evans gives a tour of the key family history websites and invites us to look a little deeper at the search facilities available.
Family historians today embrace technology – and, to make sure you know about the tools you need, the Genealogy Gadgets Club is here to help. The Genealogy Gadgets Club will feature presentations on a wide range of kit that you can employ to make your family history research time more efficient and/or more enjoyable.
Family Tree Maker tutor Mike Bollinger goes off the beaten track and demonstrates some of the extremely useful tools to be found within Family Tree Maker 2029. Plus see below for a unique Genealogy Gadgets Club offer - to save when you buy FTMaker 2019.