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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…
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…
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…
On to my Surname Notebooks and all their quirks… I have made 2 sample Surname Notebooks that you should be able to view on OneDrive by clicking on the OneNote Notebook icons at the bottom of this post. I know that you can view that copy online and there is also an “Open in OneNote”…
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…