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…
Our friend Russ Worthington — some of you know him as DearMYRTLE’s “Cousin Russ” — has been using Evidentia Software for many years. Author of the popular blog A Worthington Weblog, he has recently completed a 7-part series titled “A Question for Evidentia,” in which he uses Evidentia Software to determine whether two women in his…
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,…
While attending the Southern California Genealogical Society’s Jamboree earlier this month, I had the opportunity to chat with quite a few people about Evidentia Software. What most surprised me was the number of people who have Evidentia… but don’t use it. And why don’t they use it? The most common reason was, “I don’t have…
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…
I want to start my first post here by saying that I am in no way an Evidentia Expert. I have been using Evidentia for about 7 months, and like many of you, I am still learning the ins and outs of the software. However, I know that many of you out there are Evidentia Experts,…
