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 Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Genealogy Apps for Your Tablet
Posted by Diane
Last weekend's Family Tree University Virtual Genealogy Conference
was a great chance to learn from professional genealogy experts and
from other researchers like me via video classes, message boards and
live chats.
Mark your calendar now for our Winter 2013 Virtual Genealogy Conference, Feb. 22-24.
I'll bring you a few of my favorite conference tips and tidbits over the next
few weeks, starting with great apps from our Best Genealogy Tablet
Apps chat. Interestingly, they're not all expressly for doing
genealogy. These are some of the apps chat host Kerry Scott
and other participants use to track their trees, manage time,
digitize documents, search websites and more:
- 30/30 for time management—you work for 30 minutes or
another set length of time, then take a break (iPad)
- Ancestry for displaying your Ancestry member tree and doing quick record lookups, though the
search capabilities are limited compared to the full version
of the site (Android and iPad)
- AroundMe for finding gas stations and food in
unfamiliar towns
(iPad)
- CamScanner for digitizing documents and turning them
into PDFs (iPad and Android)
- Civil War Today for newspaper
accounts, diaries, letters and more from this day 150 years
ago (iPad)
- CousinCalc for figuring out exactly how you're related
(iPad)
- DropBox for sharing and accessing files across devices
(iPad and Android)
- Evernote for taking notes and making them searchable
and accessible across devices—you can get
Kerry's video class on using Evernote for $10 off in
ShopFamilyTree.com (iPad and Android)
- Find A Grave for searching the cemetery
transcriptions and info on Find A Grave (Android)
- Focus Time for time management; you
work for 25 minutes and take a 5-minute break, with a longer
break after four cycles (iPad)
- GoodReader for reading PDF files (iPad)
- Google Translate (iPhone and Android)
- LastPass for keeping and generating passwords (IPad and Android)
- MyHeritage for displaying your
MyHeritage family tree and searching the site (iPad and
Android)
- PrinterPro for printing wirelessly from iPad to printer
(iPad)
- Reeder for managing blog RSS feeds (iPad)
- RestingSpot for adding
your ancestor's burial location GPS coordinates to the
RestingSpot database (iPhone and Android)
- Scanner Pro for digitizing documents and turning them
into PDFs (iPad)
- Symbaloo.com as an iGoogle replacement (iPad and
Android)
- Wikipanion (iPad) or Wapedia
(Android) for using Wikipedia
- Wolfram Genealogy & History Research Assistant for
a variety of tools including historical weather to an inflation
calculator (iPad)
- Zite for finding news stories and blog posts about your
pet topics, such as genealogy (iPad and Android)
Video
classes from the Fall 2012 Virtual Genealogy Conference will be
available soon in ShopFamilyTree.com (and you can check
out classes from past Virtual Conferences now).
And if you're hungry for more ways to use your iPad for genealogy,
you'll find them in the new book Turn
Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse by Lisa Louise Cooke—click
here to learn more.
Genealogy Apps | Genealogy Events | Research Tips | Tech Advice
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:34:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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