Pauleen referred to previous posts by US bloggers James Tanner and Randy Seaver and wondered what other Australians would include on such a top ten list. So that I can answer without being swayed by Pauleen's choices I have chosen not to reread her list yet.
James and Pauleen took a broader view of the topic by listing both genealogy and nongenealogy tools. I noticed that a nitpicker criticised James for including applications that were not really programs. Randy put forward a broad definition of program that I will use " James used the word "programs" to mean applications that perform a specific task on the computer".
I am making two lists of five : Productivity Tools and Research Tools. I have a large suite of tools that I use regularly but these are the most heavily sed.
Productivity Tools
Blogging Platforms - Blogger and Wordpress. I use one of these each day these to maintain my personal blogs and two blogs plus a website for genealogy organisations.
Evernote - I don't use this tool for research notes but to manage posts for the Geneadictionary and Geniaus' Gems, details of Genimates, for reminders and to store my lists of links.
Family Historian - The genealogy database program that is my workhorse. Here I store all my genealogical data plus lists, research logs, photos and documents. I share selected info online from here using the brilliant TNG at http://www.geniaus.net.
Google Products - I'm a Google Girl so I use Chrome, Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive on a daily basis for browsing, communicating, recording, sharing and making spreadsheets. I love that I can access this stuff from a variety of locations.
Inoreader - My choice of RSS tools Inoreader curates my feeds and keeps me in touch with what's happening in the blogisphere.
Research Tools
As a New South Welshman whose ancestors arrived in the colony from 1813 and didn't stray far beyond the State I use New South Wales and Australian resources most days.
Ancestry Although I have subs to several online databases I find that I use Ancestry more often than others especially now that I am finding DNA connections there.
NSW Historical BDM Indexes
State Records NSW
The Ryerson Index
Trove
As all the above research tools are continually updated I need to revisit them on a regular basis.
And now this is done I'm off to compare with Pauleen's post.
What does your Top Ten look like?
4 comments:
Good list Jill and thanks for the mention.
I'd love to see what other Ausgenies have to say, Pauleen.
Jill I am interested to see you use Family Historian for your Research Logs. Have you done a blogpost about how you do this in the past. I am searching the site but Family Historian returns quite a few hits. I would like to find a way of linking my Google Drive Research Toolbox and Log with Family Historian. I would be interested to learn what others do.
I have included your blog in Interesting Blogs in Friday Fossicking at
http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/friday-fossicking-7th-october-2016.html
Thank you, Chris
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