Jul 31, 2015 | Tips & Hints
Office Lens was launched on Windows Phone over a year ago and is now available as an app for Apple and Android devices. Office Lens is a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner. It works with OneNote and OneDrive so you’ll never lose a...
Jul 23, 2015 | Tips & Hints
At the July 2015 Daytime meeting Walter Wood spoke on DNA for Genealogy. He covered the three main DNA tests and the three companies providing DNA testing for genealogists. He also spoke on his own experiences with DNA testing and how it helped advance one of the...
May 29, 2015 | Tips & Hints
The FamilySearch regional research groups on Facebook were created to be collaborative environments where individuals researching the same general location could help one another reach their family history goals through asking and answering questions, sharing helpful...
May 27, 2015 | Tips & Hints
What if you could store information about a file such as a description, the author, keywords, etc., and associate it with the file so it is always available? What if you could easily search on your computer for all photos with a certain person in them? By using a...
May 25, 2015 | Tips & Hints
The blog Genea-Musings recently published an article linking to a spreadsheet someone had complied containing links to newspaper archives. This spreadsheet has over 13,000 collections, mainly from Genealogy Bank, Newspapers.com, Newspaperarchive.com, Ancestry.com, Old...