From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Want to Use a Windows Genealogy Application on Your Mac?

There’s a nice introduction to virtual computers in Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. The article informs the reader that virtual computers are made possible by software that allows one to run another operating system (OS), like Windows, while simultaneously running the host OS, in our case, Mac OS X. All this techie talk simply means that [...]

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Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 3, People

This screencast completes the series on how to create a system of folders in which to store your genealogy and family history files. The video will show you step-by-step, how to create a folder for surnames and folders for people with that name. It also presents a specific naming convention for the people folders that [...]

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Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 2, Places

In this screencast I walk you through creating a folder system for files about places, such as city directories. After following along you’ll be prepared to organize the files you have. Don’t worry about doing it all at once if you have a large collection of files about places. Just do a little bit at [...]

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Creating a Genealogy Folder System on Your Mac, Part 1, My Family History

The screencast for creating the main folder is complete. If you can create a folder named “My Family History” within your “Documents” folder please do so and skip ahead to the next screencasts on creating the folders for people and places.

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Creating a Set of Folders for Your Files

Devising a system for storing family history files on your Mac isn’t as easy as it may seem. It seems easier to procrastinate, dumping all your files in one folder. That is until you have scores of files, or more. That’s when you begin to realize that it is actually easier to start out with [...]

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