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Category: Genealogy How Tos

www.past-presence.com Evernote for genealogy – Saving Ancestry docs in Evernote
Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos · How To Videos

Evernote for genealogy – Saving Ancestry docs in Evernote

May 8, 2018January 21, 2019 wanderernolongerLeave a comment

Make sense of the 1000 docs on your desktop with Evernote.

www.past-presence.com Evernote for genealogy
Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos · How To Videos

Evernote for genealogy

April 28, 2018January 21, 2019 wanderernolonger5 Comments

Evernote is the PERFECT tool for genealogy. Let me show you why.

www.past-presence.com E-files, paper files, and in-between – organizing your genealogical research
Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos

E-files, paper files, and in-between – organizing your genealogical research

April 15, 2018November 15, 2018 wanderernolongerLeave a comment

In this post, I discuss 3 scenarios for genealogists: paper only, e-files and paper, and electronic document management

www.past-presence.com Your genealogy research process – it doesn’t have to be painful but it does have to work
Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos

Your genealogy research process – it doesn’t have to be painful but it does have to work

April 8, 2018March 17, 2022 wanderernolonger1 Comment

6 factors to judge your organizational process for genealogy - how sexy is that?

Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos

You can’t carry it (all) with you – how I moved from paper to e-files and put a rocket booster under my genealogical research

April 1, 2018March 17, 2022 wanderernolonger5 Comments

Tips from a former legal executive assistant on whether to stay with paper, use a paper/e-file mix, or go paperless

www.past-presence.com Should you get a DNA test?
Canadian laws · Genealogy How Tos

Should you get a DNA test?

February 10, 2018October 19, 2025 wanderernolonger4 Comments

Curious about DNA kits? Me too. Here are my pros and cons.

www.past-presence.com How to sort photos from the past 50 years when you have almost nothing to go on
Genealogy How Tos · Photo and film scanning

How to sort photos from the past 50 years when you have almost nothing to go on

January 13, 2018May 6, 2020 wanderernolonger5 Comments

Got a box of loose photos and almost no info? Here's how I get around the brick wall.

www.past-presence.com The family picture scanning project: how I digitized 3000 images in my spare time
Genealogy How Tos · Photo and film scanning · Photo History

The family picture scanning project: how I digitized 3000 images in my spare time

January 6, 2018May 6, 2020 wanderernolonger10 Comments

The journey to digitize 8K images and how it led to Past Presence

The child of my cousin is my…what?
Genealogy How Tos

The child of my cousin is my…what?

November 14, 2017April 4, 2020 wanderernolonger29 Comments

1st cousins, 2nd cousins, and 1st cousins once removed, explained with a graphic

Photo of Linda Yip and the AAST class How I went from a blogger to a guest lecturer
Family history stories · Genealogy How Tos

How I went from a blogger to a guest lecturer

October 26, 2017November 6, 2017 wanderernolonger2 Comments

Six months after Past Presence hit the web, I was invited to lecture at Professor Kwong's Asian American Studies class at Indiana University, Bloomington

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