Michele Berner
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Skitch For MAC and Android devices Those of you who use Evernote to organise your notes and ideas may find Skitch a useful tool. It allows you to annotate, edit and save your photos & scribbles. Everything you create on Skitch can be shared directly with Evernote, saved to a drive or emailed. Annotate an …
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Researching without Google Searching for information to assist in my genealogical research often requires a Google search using search terms that I hope will provide some useful hits. Most of the time, I’m not really sure what I’m looking for; I’m just hoping something useful will eventuate. In addition to the benefits of Mocavo, I’ve …
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Online storage in the cloud These days we live online, work online, store personal files online, and more. It’s not about locking into a single IT platform – it’s about releasing us from platform dependence. It is a really important concept, or concept shift, that is happening in the world of technology and social …
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Capture your iPhone / iPad screen to your PC or MAC Have you ever wanted to mirror what is on your iPhone or iPad screen to your PC or MAC? For example, demonstrating an app with all the taps and screen changes on your iPad to an audience using a projector or capturing your iPad …
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How death certificates can advance your research It is never a good idea to rely on family members for information. Memories can become distorted and stories, once erroneous, may have now become family lore. I have been researching my Great Grandmother, Millie Green. My father’s memories are hazy to say the least, and there are …
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Sharing Family History in the Cloud What is Voicethread? VoiceThread is a totally web-based digital story telling application that allows you to place collections of media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the centre of an asynchronous (not occurring at the same time) conversation. A VoiceThread allows people to have conversations and to make …
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Backtracking through the census to find ancestors The UK census has been instrumental in uncovering ancestors on my father’s paternal side of the family. All I knew at the outset from my Grandfather’s death certificate was the name of his mother, and his father – including his father’s date of birth and place of birth. …
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Genealogy & History Research Assistant This is an iPad app available from the iTunes store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. To develop my research into my family’s history, I want to know more than just dates and basic relationships. A more comprehensive understanding of the history and social conditions of an ancestor will …
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Embed and share information using Embedit.In If you have your own blog or website, you may have included an image, a video, a Powerpoint presentation, a .pdf file, a WORD, EXCEL document. It is often a messy, convoluted process. Do you need a more efficient process? This is the first in a series of posts on …
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