Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Kerry Scott
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January 13 - January 21, 2021
Create a note (more on this in chapter 2), then start typing. You can use the note for anything you like—a transcription of a will, notes on a local genealogical society presentation, free-form thoughts on what you remember about Grandpa Joe, the citation for a source you found while researching, or whatever else you’d like to capture.
You can take notes on paper, then scan them into Evernote
Nearly all of us have photos of cemetery headstones and homes or other buildings associated with our ancestors. All of these images belong in Evernote, where they can be cataloged, searched, tagged, and linked
Fortunately, Evernote allows you to store and search PDFs
Evernote has a built-in to-do list feature (image I) that allows you to check tasks off as you complete them and to tag them to cross-reference with the notes they relate to.
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David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection <www.davidrumsey.com
US National Archives and Records Administration <www.archives.gov>
Evernote Premium users have a Presentation Mode feature that works similar to a PowerPoint slide show
Evernote’s Related Notes feature for Premium subscribers can help by automatically alerting you when a new note seems to relate to something you’ve done in the past.
if notes are the main characters, notebooks would be their parents, and stacks would be their grandparents.
Review your list of notebooks (you’ll need at least two notebooks to do this). Hover your mouse over one notebook, click and hold
your mouse button, and drag that notebook on top of the notebook you want to pair it with to create a stack.
Your stack will automatically name itself. To change the name to something more meaningful, hover your mouse over the n...
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Here’s how to set up a reminder for a note: Navigate to the note that relates to the reminder item. Click the little clock symbol at the top of your note (see image E).
you’ll probably want to merge the notes you’ve created about each of them.
Select as many notes as you need to merge by holding down the Control key (on Windows) or the Command key (on a Mac), then clicking each note. You’ll see a dialog box (image N) that gives you several options. Choose Merge.
If you find yourself using a tag often, consider adding it to your shortcuts. Right-click the tag you want, then choose Add Tag to Shortcuts. This will put the selected tag in the top left section of your screen, where you can find it easily.
House numbers are another clue worth tagging. They can help you tie families together via census records, city directories, and land records.
Set up a search on eBay for yearbooks from the schools near where your ancestors lived
example, a stroke used to be called apoplexy, and epilepsy used to be known as the falling sickness—see The Cure for Confusing Disease Names for more.
Family Tree Pocket Reference, second edition (Family Tree Books, 2013),
you’ll need to carefully label these non-relatives in your genealogy files,
By tagging each “FAN” with the name of the ancestor she’s associated with, you’ll ensure that your FANs are connected to the right people
In Evernote, you can use tags to label matches by chromosome number (which chromosome the other person matches you on),
GEDmatch kit number or AncestryDNA username.
Evernote has a built-in camera app that’s separate from your device’s regular camera, meaning your images won’t end up in your camera roll
(CutePDF <www.cutepdf.com> and PrintFriendly <www.printfriendly.com> are popular options among genealogists).
Use the @ symbol in the subject line to send your e-mail to a specific notebook
Use the # symbol in the subject line to tag your e-mail, using tags you have set up in Evernote.
Use !Reminder in the subject line to have Evernote’s Reminder feature prompt you to act on this e-mail in the future.
with the year/month/day, like this: !Reminder !2016/03/31.
There’s a tool called iExplorer that allows you to export both iMessages
messages that need to be preserved, iExplorer <www.macroplant.com/iexplorer> is worth a look.
Related Content feature in Evernote. With this feature, Evernote identifies notes that the program believes to be related to other notes you’ve saved.
Click the note information icon (it’s the circled lowercase letter-i in the top menu toolbox above the note). You’ll see a number of statistics about your note. At the bottom, there’s a link to View History. Click it.
Open the note you want to convert to PDF. Navigate the mouse to somewhere on the note itself, then right-click. Choose Convert Note to PDF from the drop-down menu that appears (image R).
You can use the built-in Evernote camera to take photos of Post-It Notes, and Evernote will automatically detect the image is a Post-It Note and file it accordingly.
You’ll get the best results from the square 3x3- or 11x11-inch Post-it Notes in neon pink, electric blue, limeade, and electric yellow.
The Skitch app allows you to annotate PDFs, photos, and web clippings.
Scannable (image H) is an Evernote-integrated app for iOS devices. It allows you to take photos of documents that the app automatically crops and enhances (image
Enable two-step verification for an extra layer of security for your Evernote data.
Export important notes to PDF so they can be backed up separately. This also ensures that your data will be accessible even if Evernote is no longer in business.
Back up your entire Evernote collection...
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Computer security experts advise that it’s always a good idea to change your password periodically.
The best way to use the log templates is to download them in word processing format from <ftu.familytreemagazine.com/how-to-use-evernote-for-genealogy>. You can then copy the tables in those files and paste them directly into an Evernote note. Use that note as your template and customize however you’d like with additional rows or columns.
