Evidentia and the Genealogical Proof Standard
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Evidentia and the Genealogical Proof Standard

So how does Evidentia support the tenets of the Genealogical Proof Standard? Element of the GPS Supported by Evidentia Reasonably exhaustive search Evidentia’s Research Summary Report tallies the current breadth of cited source material in an easy to review format. Evidentia’s source first approach encourages a thorough cataloguing of source material, often uncovering minor facts…

Mind Maps
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Mind Maps

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program… Evidentia is one of many tools I use in researching my family tree.  Today I want to talk about a different tool – Mind Maps. Ron Arons, who some of you may know from his Black Sheep Blog and from genealogy conferences, has published a new book, Mind Maps…

Separate or Together: a change in how I capture claims
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Separate or Together: a change in how I capture claims

I have a confession to make – I am not an expert in using Evidentia. When I started working on Evidentia, I was developing a software product I knew I wanted…no, needed.  I needed a better way to manage my evidence, and capture my thought process in drawing the conclusions I was drawing.  However, when I…

Where does it fit?
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Where does it fit?

One of the questions I get frequently about Evidentia is “where does it fit in my research process?”. I think this is not only because Evidentia is a new idea in genealogy software, but also because the renaissance of evidence based genealogy is taking off right now. Many genealogist are shifting to a new way…

Evidentia Proof Reports on Ancestry.com Family Trees
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Evidentia Proof Reports on Ancestry.com Family Trees

Editor’s note: I recently engaged a few members of the online community in a discussion about integrating the use of Evidentia with Family trees at ancestry.com. While its pretty common to complain about the lack of quality data in any given Ancestry tree, In that discussion I decried the lack of data fields provided by…