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O is for Organizing Before going further, I think it’s a good time to ask… How do you currently keep your genealogy research organized? Or perhaps the better question is: Is it organized? [Hey, I get it… I’m a piler too! No judging here.] === When I first started with my research, I used a…
M is for Manage After adding Sections to your Notebook, the next step is to create some Pages for your Sections. Pages are where you will be adding links, tables, maps, photos, etc., and are managed easily in OneNote. === First, let’s create a little more space on our screen for our Pages. You can…
L is for Labeling Before I give you specific details on how I have my Notebooks set up, I first want to explain a little bit about how to label Sections and manage Pages [which will be my next post]. About labeling Sections… [lots of visual aids today! hahaha] In the Notebook you created in…
Are you ready to create your first notebook in OneNote? I started with one notebook for each of my grandparents’ surnames. I added a fifth general genealogy information notebook later on and finally a “hold everything” research notebook to keep the odd bits of information and documents handy until I was ready to organize them.…
OneNote keeps track of the stuff in my life. It also helps me achieve research nirvana in my family history research. I can use it to gather, organize and share my research. I can email information from my notebooks to anyone—even if they don’t have OneNote. I can make PDFs of any page in my…
Maybe you are a list maker or note taker and never get your deepest thoughts or greatest ideas into an actual notebook. OneNote can help you organize all those thoughts and ideas and help you clean up all those sticky notes and bits of paper lying around and keep them stored in electronic form. The…
I have been using Microsoft OneNote since 2007—long before I found other genealogists extolling its virtues for family history research. I have almost two dozen different OneNote notebooks for various projects, hobbies, and personal information. For my family history, I have a general Genealogy Notebook and one for each of my four grandparents’ surnames−Williamson, Buisch,…
The 2014 A to Z April Challenge is designed to challenge bloggers to post Monday through Saturday during the month of April resulting in 26 blog posts. If you can keep up. The A to Z part of the challenge consists of using the letters of the alphabet—one per day—on which to base your…