Do you have a thousand docs saved on your computer – somewhere – that’d be really helpful if you could only find them again?
Me too! At least, that was me before Evernote.
Do you have a love/hate relationship with Ancestry? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how easy it is to attach records to family trees. Sooooo easy, right?
But what if – shhh – I’ll whisper this part – you didn’t want to pay Ancestry’s subscriptions for the rest of your life? What if you wanted to keep an archive of downloaded documents in a place OTHER THAN Ancestry?
What if you just wanted a backup copy of the docs? Don’t you love the gobbledygook that Ancestry names each doc? For example, 33022_302516-00144.jpg? What is that? That’s not useful to anyone. If Ancestry could make attaching docs to family trees so easy, couldn’t they come up with a way of auto-naming downloaded documents with something useful, like the name of your person, the date, and the name of the archive?
In this video, I’ll share with you how I tame the nightmare that is downloaded documents, and combine the two great strengths of Ancestry’s records with Evernote’s organizing expertise.
Saving Ancestry docs to Evernote
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