Learn by example? Over the next few months I want to offer use cases for entering and analyzing the US Census records. My hope is that this will help you get a better idea of how Evidentia fits into your workflow. In these exercises we will not focus on citations. We assume you have already cited your source… Read More »
“I love Evidentia, but I am just not sure how to write an analysis.” I have heard this more than once, from users on Google+, in Google Hangouts, and at conferences. Many users feel intimidated by the analysis process, even with the help of books such as Thomas Jones “Mastering Genealogical Proofs” What I want to try to lay out… Read More »
Editor – Our guest blogger today is Blake Christensen. Blake works as a computer programmer in Kansas. His wife is a professional genealogist. He claims that not much of her expertise has rubbed off on him, but he tries. Evidentia comes with many claim types. One of the claim types is ‘Residence’. Why do a residence study? Most… Read More »
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 that might otherwise… Read More »
The Genealogical Research Map, provided here courtesy of Mark Tucker at ThinkGenealogy, captures the spirit of what Evidentia is all about.
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 for Genealogists. I… Read More »
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 released the software… Read More »
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 of thinking about… Read More »
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 Ancestry to provide… Read More »
The #1 complaint I get about Evidentia genealogy Software is “I already entered my data into my other genealogy software, why do I have to enter it again“. It’s a valid complaint – no one likes data entry. Entering citations (and that’s the work we are really talking about) is the least fun part of the documenting process.… Read More »