What’s a genealogy toolbox?
- Websites and computer tools that make research easier
Organizers
- Password Managers:
- Reviews http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407168,00.asp
- People at the meeting use LastPass, KeePass, and Dashlane
- Browser Favorite/Bookmark Managers: Chrome Bookmark Manager, http://beebom.com/2015/06/best-bookmark-managers
- Evernote, OneNote
Swiss Army Knife Sites
- Wikipedia
- Cyndi’s List: http://www.cyndislist.com/
- Thomas MacEntee’s Toolbox: http://genealogytoolbox.weebly.com/
- FamilySearch Wiki (this is an awesome site – the best place to start if you need to learn about a new area of research. For example, ready to start researching your Swedish ancestry? Go to the Swedish research page and find brief histories, discussions about what records are available and how they’re organized, lists of the Swedish words you’re most likely to find in genealogical records, like died, born, married, and lots of other useful goodies to get you started): https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/index.php
- USGenweb.org
- Worldgenweb.org
- Dictionary.com
- Abbreviations.com
- Acronymfinder.com
Forms
- Facebook group The Organized Genealogist: Includes the Individual Research Checklist (a master list of sources to check for each individual, including all the censuses, birth records, marriage records, etc.): https://www.facebook.com/groups/organizedgenealogist/files/
Ideas for categories:
- Calendars (what date was Easter 1952?): timeanddate.com
- Historical Timelines
- States, Counties, Countries
- County Line Changes: http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
- Languages (FamilySearch wiki has nice genealogy word lists)
- Currency calculator (great-grandpa’s will left his eldest son $50. How much would that be worth today? Or…census says real estate valued at $500. How much would that be worth today?) http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php