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Ben Sayer

Firefox 4 for Mac Genealogists

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The new Firefox 4 browser is out. It has a couple of features that can help you stay organized when researching your genealogy on the web. Firstly, related tabs can be organized in groups called, you guessed it, group tabs. With group tabs, only the tabs in the currently selected group appear on the tab bar. Secondly, app tabs narrow the tab and make it appear in the tab bar for all groups. It sounds more complicated than it is which is why I make these videos.

In this video I show you how to create a genealogy tab group and app tabs for commonly used web applications like Gmail.
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Private Holdings: Artifact-Reunion Source Type

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Don’t forget to cite the artifacts held by private parties, including yourself. Genealogy expert Elizabeth Shown Mills recommends a citation format for these in her book, “Evidence Explained:Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace 2nd Edition”. Following her suggested full reference format helps you and other genealogists understand the provenance and find the owner of the artifact in the future. These are the fields recommended for the full reference citation of a privately held artifact:

  • Item ID
  • Artifact ID
  • Creation Date
  • Current or Last Known Owner
  • Owner’s Location
  • Year Owned
  • Descriptive Detail

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Planning for Reunion Source Type Coverage: EE Basic Formats

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The recent videos I’ve done on creating Reunion for Mac source types which follow the formats in Evidence Explained have been well received so I sat down to plan what and how to cover the remaining “basic formats” from the book. There are quite a few and I’d like you to have the ones you need most as soon as possible.

If you have a preference, would you help me prioritize them by commenting here with an ordered list of those which interest you most? Here’s the list of all the basic formats:

  • Artifacts
  • Documents
  • Family Artifacts
  • Corporate & Institutional Records
  • City & County Records:
    • Bound Volumes
    • Loose Papers (case files)
    • Records Archived off-site
  • Marriage License & Registration, Etc.:
    • Bound Volumes
    • Loose Papers (bonds & licences)
    • Online Resources
  • Deeds & Conveyances:
    • Original Registers
    • Microfilm Images
  • Probates:
    • Bound Volumes
    • Loose Papers
    • Microfilm Images
    • Online Material
  • Tax Records
  • International Records
  • National Government Records:
    • Audio & Video Recordings
    • Manuscript (textual) Material
    • Microfilm
    • NA-regional Holdings
    • Online Databases
    • Online Images
  • Publications (books, CDs, Maps, Leaflets & Videos):
  • Publications: Journal Articles

Duplicate Place Cleanup in RootsMagic 4

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You may be surprised by the number of different ways you’ve entered the same place-name in your RootsMagic 4 software. This is especially true if you don’t routinely check for and correct duplicate place-names. I recommend putting this on your calendar to do periodically just like checking for “duplicate people.”

In this video you’ll learn how to quickly detect and clean up duplicate place-names.
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