Tools for genealogists
If you’ve followed our previous advice, you’ve taken care to keep a “digital copy” of the information you’ve consulted when researching your genealogy. If you haven’t – yet – we invite you to re-read this publication. Having a copy is essential to guarantee the existence of information (proof) and to refer to it in case …
Today, thanks to photographs and other scanners, it’s easy to keep a digital copy of the documents you consult, and it can be tempting not to transcribe the document’s content. Why should you transcribe a document of which you have an image? From an IT point of view, images and text are two file formats …
If you’ve had a chance to read the articles on this site, you’ll already know that I’m a fervent advocate of the importance of sources of information in genealogical research. Indeed, if you want to obtain a genealogy that is faithful to reality and free from approximations, the only solution is to start from the …
