Genealogy Gadgets & Apps for All Occasions

 The first issue in the Genealogy Gadgets & Apps for All Occasions series appeared in the June 2022 issue of Family Tree,

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Note: The magazine issue of Family Tree, in which something is mentioned, is included in []. e.g. [June 2022].

Online family tree

Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast, TreeView, and WikiTree are each places at which you may like to create an online tree [June 2022]

See https://www.cyndislist.com/family-trees/ for an extensive list of further alternative options [June 2022]

Family history software

Family Historian 7 [June 2022, October 2022 (how to use hints, by Simon Orde of Family Historian)]

Family Tree Maker 2019 [June 2022, August 2022 (question about upgrading to newer version)]

Heredis [June 2022]

Legacy 9 [June 2022]

RootsMagic 8 [June 2022]

Reunion 13 [June 2022]

Custodian 4 [August 2022, tips on getting started. See also an FT reader's view of using the software - click here]

Mobile apps for family history

Family Tree Maker Connect [June 2022]

RootsMagic [June 2022]

Heredis [June 2022]

Reunion Touch [June 2022]

Quick Family Tree [February 2023]

Research aids

Zotero [July 2022]

Zim [July 2022]

Online Repository Assistant [August 2022]

Cite-Builder.com [September 2022]

GenScriber.com [December 2022]

FT Analyzer [February 2023]

Note-taking

OneNote [June 2022]

GoodNotes [June 2022]

Notability [June 2022]

Evernote [October 2022 (How Family Tree reader Chris Dallison uses it)]

Microsoft's To Do [January 2023]

Family history writing

The Creative Family Historian [July 2022]

Scrivener [June 2022]

Reading aids

NaturalReader [July 2022]

Text to Speech Reader [July 2022]

Organising a trip

Google Travel [June 2022]

Tripit [June 2022]

Mindmapping

Lucid Chart [June 2022]

Miro.com [August 2022]

Scapple [December 2022]

Miscellaneous

GRO online birth and death indexes [August 2022]

Rakonto [September 2022]

Using Excel for my One-Name Study - project management with FT reader Alfred Gracey [January 2023]

AwesomeScreenshot.com [January 2023]

Check All Checkboxes [January 2023]

Apps for converting handwriting to text [January 2023] (This is a link to the MediaPeanut blog)

DNA

FamilyTreeDNA's Group Administrator Pages (GAP) [September 2022]

www.nifhs.org/DNA [September 2022]

Hardware

Using a digital pencil and tablet for family history research with FT reader John Smith [November 2022]

Using a graphics tablet and digital pencil with FT reader Jonathan Conibere [December 2022]

Submitting your ideas

If you have a piece of kit, hardware or software, that you find useful for your family history, we would love to hear. Please email [email protected] and we will try to include it in a future issue of Family Tree and/or on this, our useful links post.

Join the club

If you're a fan of genealogy gadgets, you may like to join ... the Genealogy Gadgets Club. The club launched in September 2022 and meets once a month online, on the last Thursday of the month, 1-2pm. To see if you'd like to if it's for you, take a 7-day FREE trial to Family Tree Plus. The Genealogy Gadgets Club is one of many benefits of Family Tree Plus. To start your FREE trial, please click here.