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www.past-presence.com What’s Evernote for genealogy?
Evernote for Genealogy · Genealogy How Tos

What’s Evernote for genealogy?

June 24, 2018November 15, 2018 wanderernolonger7 Comments

My 6 blog posts about the whys and hows of organizing docs for genealogy, featuring Evernote

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 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

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