My Family History Files

Tag: OneNote A-Z

  • Cuntz Closed Cold Case

    In the ON Templates Section of the Surname notebooks, there is a template for a Research Plan. (A special thank you to Christine Sisko Clause for letting me borrow heavily from her original template to create mine all those years ago.) It’s rather fancy-pants and I have used it on occasion. I like using it…

  • Gen Do-Over: Cycle 2 Week 2

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    If you would like to view in PDF, it’s here Following up on my post for Cycle 2 Week 1, here is my new workflow chart. Or should it be work flowchart? (Whatever.) It is a simplified version of the chart I originally posted here during the first cycle of the Genealogy Do-Over. This one…

  • Who goes where

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    I currently have four surname notebooks set up although I am working only in the one for now. There is one notebook for each of my grandparents’ surnames. Working in only one surname notebook at a time is for my own sanity. I am concentrating on going back through and documenting my direct line ancestors…

  • Inserting Files & Images in OneNote

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    Inserting files and images into OneNote is different than attaching files in OneNote. When you attach a file, you are linking from another source to a OneNote Page. It is link to a web page, link to file on your hard drive or link to another Notebook, Section or Page, for instance. The problem with…

  • Part 2 – More Quirks – Section Groups & Sections

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    I have been busy behind the scenes working on updating my old OneNote posts, putting together some new posts and working through the Genealogy Do-Over Topics. The Research Log dilemma has me in a holding pattern where I am currently stuck in the topics for Weeks 3-5. Anne Faulkner’s (Ancestor Archaeology) Do-Over recap post had…

  • Attaching Files in OneNote

    Here I am going to show you how to Attach and Insert Files into [onto?] Pages in OneNote. I equate “attaching” with “linking.” I am linking to a File on my hard drive, another Notebook, Section or Page or linking to information on the web. The first place I do this in each Surname Notebook…

  • Printing to OneNote

    P is for Printing The easiest way to add a file−document, PDF, photo, genealogy chart−is to use the Print Function in the program where you are viewing the document. If you would like to “see” the file on a Page in your Surname Notebook, this is the simplest way to accomplish that. One of the…

  • Gather Your Research Documents

    G is for Gather I am going to suggest a slow, steady and systematic way to input your research into your Surname Notebooks. It’s really not as daunting as it sounds. 1. Pick just one Surname to start with and focus solely on that Surname. 2. Start with the closest person related to you in…

  • Your Notebooks

    Y is for Your Notebooks Now that you have some idea of how I am using my OneNote Notebooks, hopefully that has inspired some ideas for your own Notebooks. Some of you may still be wondering why I would want to use OneNote when I am also using Family Tree Maker. I’ve found that for…

  • Part 3 – Quirks Continued – Pages for Family Groups

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    Continuing on in my Surname Notebooks and all their quirks… I am giving you a grand tour of my OneNote Surname Notebook section by section and page by page. (Hopefully it still won’t turn into a 3-hour tour and we end up on stranded on Gilligan’s Island…) The very last Section in the Main Section…