Evidentia comes pre-populated with many different types of claims. However, you may occasionally need to create a custom claim type for a specific subject or set of subjects. This is very easy to do, either in the List Manager or “on the fly” as you are attaching claims to your subject(s). A while back, I was…
In my last post, I wrote about how to add information from a city directory into Evidentia. Ahem. Did you notice my error? I the claim that “In 1931, Bessie McGraw appears to be separated from her husband Thomas. Bessie is listed by herself as “McGraw Bessie Mrs.” While this information may or may not…
When you want to find an ancestor during those pesky years between census enumerations, a city directory should be one of the first places you look. Unfortunately, most of my ancestors lived in the rural south and midwest, where records of any sort can be few and far between. On the rare occasion when I do…
In my last post, I talked about how to match subjects from your FamilySearch family tree to your subjects in Evidentia. Today I am going to tell you how to import a source citation from FamilySearch into Evidentia. To do this, open your Subject List in Evidentia and select a matched subject (matched subjects will…
In 2014, Evidentia became a FamilySearch Certified Partner. What this means for Evidentia users is that you can easily share information between your FamilySearch family tree and your Evidentia software. To do this, you will need to match subjects in Evidentia with their counterparts in your FamilySearch family tree. (Please note that Evidentia does not…
Change is good. One of the first things I do with new software is to personalize the user interface. I like to make the workspace feel like it’s really mine before I feel comfortable using it, and that typically involves changing the color. I tend to go “girly,” with colors like pink or purple. 🙂 I know,…
In my last post, “How I Became an Evidentia User,” I shared the sad story of how I had a missed an important clue in a source, and wound up adding 8 years to my research. Grrrrr. Today I’m going to work backwards a bit, and share some some baseline information about Nellie. This will help…
