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The Future of Genealogy Software is not “Hard to See”
Many years ago I was (incorrectly) singing the words to the song, “Que, Sera, Sera” and my wife pointed out my humorous mistake. Instead of singing: Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The...
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Better Online Citations – Details Part 2 (GEDCOM)
In Better Online Citations – Details Part 1 we examined how the QuickCheck model for “Book: Basic format” from Evidence Explained was coded in Family Tree Maker 2009, Legacy 7, and RootsMagic 4. From...
View ArticleBetter Online Citations Surveys Now Closed
Almost 50 days ago, I posted a video titled “A Better Way to Cite Onilne Sources” with 2 corresponding surveys. Since then 358 people responded to the individual survey and 9 to the...
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Better Online Citations – Details Part 3 (MARC)
Over the past few months, I have shared an idea about how to make citing online sources easier. You can find out more about this on the page, A Better Way to Cite Online Sources. Some of the...
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Better Online Citations – Details Part 4 (MARC XML)
Previous posts have explored a better way to cite online sources (Part 1), how citation information can be stored as a file using GEDCOM format (Part 2) and MARC format (Part 3). This post takes the...
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Better Online Citations – Details Part 5 (MODS)
In this post, we continue our exploration through existing bibliographic standards to see how they might work as a format for online sites to easily share citation information. To see the journey we...
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The Challenges One of the challenges that need to be solved for online source citation is the ability to give structure to digital assets. Think of an online book that consists of a hundred images each...
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RootsMagic 4 Citation Quality Gotcha #1
I applaud the work the RootsMagic team has done to bring professional-quality research practices to the most recent version of RootsMagic. The work that they (and others) are doing is truly innovative....
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RootsMagic 4 Citation Quality Gotcha #2
In gotcha #1 we looked at the issue of having the Source quality associated with the Source Details instead of the Master Source. In gotcha #2 we look at issues dealing with evidence. Source,...
View ArticleGenPerfect–My Ideal Genealogy Software
I grew up in Utah, have a brother-in-law that worked for WordPerfect, and used WordPerfect in high school and college before Microsoft Word became the dominant word processing software. So when I tried...
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