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Post History: Ann C Gilchrest
Hello amittle,
Welcome to the forums.
One of the first things you need to consider is are you loo …In: How do I create a census citation?
5 years ago
Gary,
This is great. I will be downloading it and studying it. Thank you for sharing!
AnnIn: Using Zotero as Digital Asset Management Software
5 years ago
In FTM I have a notes option for each fact and I can add a URL to a citation. The Detail reference N …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
History Hunter,
Are you saying that RootsMagic has the ability to have reference numbers for each e …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
History Hunter,
Early on I tried to link images into my genealogy database. What a mess. Years ag …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
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Donna,
Wikipedia Definition: "In archival science, a fonds is a group of documents that share …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
History Hunter,
Currently, I use Microsoft Outlook as I am on a PC. I had a heck of a time getting …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
History Hunter,
Thank you for the links. My head is spinning with the email information!
I have do …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
I should note that I have started a collection called Family Archives. I am still reworking this col …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
Hi History Hunter,
I will have to check out Research Like a Pro. Did you purchase the book? Thank y …In: Photograph & Heirloom catalogue
5 years ago
I also use Chrome and have for a number of years. I also use pedigree thief and OneNote extensions w …In: Browser options for Zotero
5 years ago
History Hunter,
I purchased the pdf version because I like to open it up on my second monitor for r …In: Current Version of "Zotero for Genealogy"
5 years ago
I should add that using the above method works well especially if I am submitting an article for pub …In: Work flow
5 years ago
History Hunter,
I know what you mean about the compiling part with Scrivener. I have not figured o …In: Work flow
5 years ago
History Hunter, I went back and added the missing image from post #35 and added a bit of text for ex …In: Work flow
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I think I substituted one and added one. The one I added may have been done before you got to it.In: Work flow
5 years ago
History Hunter,
I don't think Donna has updated the original version of Zotero for Genealogy. …In: Current Version of "Zotero for Genealogy"
5 years ago
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For Paper Certificates with their Digital files.
The steps are the same as above with additional in …In: Work flow
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Step 3Add a partial transcription to the note section of the image 7
Notes: I created a template fo …In: Work flow
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Step 1 For Digital Only Documents.
Choose your item type and add the information. I primarily use D …In: Work flow
5 years ago
BMD’s
After I finished all the Newspaper articles, I started on the Death Records. This is when I d …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step 4
Once I completed all the entries in a folder I dragged them into the main Newspaper collecti …In: Work flow
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Step 3
Is to add the tags and relate any notes to the main entry. This article has 60 tags. It too …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step 2 I am keeping the image.
I link the image to the entry add the transcription to the note fie …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step 2 For articles I am not keeping the image.
I add a note to each entry and transcribe the enti …In: Work flow
5 years ago
For the newspapers, I do have sub-collections by surname initial, but I also have them all in the co …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Hi History Hunter,
About the same time, I started using Zotero I also started a family archive. The …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step 6:
Lastly, I dragged a copy of the entry to the Rose Baer sub-collection in the Questions Col …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step Five:
Next, I add Tags. I use RIN’s for Tags. Side Note: I use FTM which allows me to add a pr …In: Work flow
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Step 4
Next, I will link the entry to the image and anything else I want to relate using the relate …In: Work flow
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Step Three
Once I have the entry in Zotero I link it to my image. I use the note section of the ima …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step Two:
I don’t store images inside of Zotero so I needed to download the article to my computer. …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Step One:
The first thing I did was add a sub-collection under my Question’s collection, called Ros …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Hi History Hunter,
After a year of using Zotero I am still tweaking my workflow. Like you I use Scr …In: Work flow
5 years ago
Linda,
I think but am not sure it has to do with the name of the link. I am assuming that when you …In: Moving attachments to external hard drive
6 years ago
Full transcriptions or images what do you keep? I have been doing a lot of thinking about this quest …In: Transcriptions or Images
6 years ago
Some thoughts on question number 2.
All of the information in your library shows up when you click …In: Zotero Setup Questions
6 years ago
Hi Timothy,
While I can't answer questions about Google Drive I can help with question number …In: Zotero Setup Questions
6 years ago
Donna,
You and I have come to the same conclusions. There was a time in my life when I would have …In: Scotlands People citations
6 years ago
Hi James, I agree with you that it works great for certain records particularly books. For the most …In: Scotlands People citations
6 years ago
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