Genealogy

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A possible start are my two postings and subsequent discussions found here:

DTPO & Genealogical Research

Inspired by John’s excellent contribution on how he uses DEVONthink, Courtroom blitz, I thought it might be of interest if I described how I use DEVONthink Pro Office, (DTPO) in my Genealogical and family history research. First a bit of background information. I have been researching my family history and genealogy for something like 10 years and until I came across the Devon suite of applications had relied on written notes and files to contain documents, ephemera and sundry family related ob…

DTPO & Genealogical Research Part 2

In my recent posting where I gave an account of how I used DTPO in my Genealogical research I covered my basic usage of DTPO with the Genealogical software Reunion, in this posting I take this to the next stage and show how I use DTPO to carry out further research. A lot of time is spent in getting information into DTPO and it is easy to then sit back and say to oneself, “job done.” But there is no point in getting all this data nicely sorted if then you do not use it for researching further in…