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STOP! DO NOT ORDER! Out of Stock! ------------------------------------- Family History Power Tools, Essential Power Tools to Discover and Share Your Own Family Roots and Story, eBooks; by Paul Larsen; CD; Published: 2012, ISBN: 9781937900069; Item # PL06
3 Powerful Family History “How-To” eBooks
Including :
- Crash Course In Family History, 4th ed. eBooks
PL02
- Using Google-Power to Connect to Your Ancestors
PL05
- Your Family History Tech Toolbox
PL04
Crash Course in Family History - An Easy Step-by-Step Illustrated Guidebook and Comprehensive Resource Directory – 4th Edition; by Paul Larsen ; 262 full color pages; eBook; Item #: PL02; $30.00
"Crash Course in Family History" Book Review
Now in a new Fourth Edition, this widely acclaimed, comprehensive resource directory is also a step-by-step illustrated guidebook offering a wealth of invaluable resources, ideas, tips, and motivation to everyone on a fascinating journey to find one’s roots. It’s an essential, simplified guide for everyone tracing their own family roots and stories – both beginners and experts – with all the newest Web sites, software, tools and technology to guide beginners and empower experts.
A Brief Overview
A step-by-step, colorfully-illustrated, easy-to-understand guidebook featuring 3-easy-steps to trace your family roots and stories. Walks you through the fascinating family history journey hand-in-hand! It couldn’t be easier!
Provides new, invaluable, comprehensive resources not conveniently found elsewhere – for even seasoned-researchers and veteran family historians to connect with your ancestors.
Learn about the latest technology, the newest tools and tips, and the Best of the Internet web sites to build your family tree and add new branches. Makes family history fun, easy, and fast!
Empowers you with knowledge, saves you valuable time, motivates you to get started, and inspires you with heart-warming stories and timeless insights to strengthen bonds between family members and promote a sense of belonging that ties generations together.
Helps you trace your own family roots, gather your family stories, organize your information, archive your family photos and documents, share your family tree with others, hold a family reunion, grow closer together, and unite your family through generations. It couldn’t be better!
The new fourth edition, richly-illustrated epic guidebook and resource manual written and published by Paul Larsen. Large format, 262 full-color pages, hardbound, easy-to-read.
Features
- Updated - the newest Web sites, software, tools and technology
- Expanded - hundreds of new valuable resources
- The Best of the Internet: Key Family History Web Sites
- Best Top 10 Web Sites; Best Web Portals to Family History; Best International Sites: Passport to the Old Country; Best Tools to Make it Easier; Best Sites for Vital Records (Birth, Marriage, Death Records); Best Sites for Census, Immigration, Naturalization, and Military records and Best Sites for “What’s New?”
- The latest ‘new FamilySearch’ information
Expanded Table of Contents
- Preface
- About this fourth edition
- How this book came to be
- A family history of this book
- How this book is organized
- Introduction: Where do I Start?
- Why family history?
- Connecting the generations
- What should we be doing
- Loving your ancestors
- Popularity in America
- Do your ancestors want to be found?
- Inspirational stories
- Our ancestors are close to us
- Free Tutorials/Charts
- 10 things you can do to get started
- e-Newsletters/Magazines/TV Programs
- Blogs
- What is a podcast?
- Books, forms, marketplace
- Getting started
- Follow These 3-Easy Steps to Begin Building Your Family Tree & Connect to Your Ancestors
- Step 1 — Identity Your Ancestors Using Your Family
- Write What You Know about your ancestors
- Why keep a research log?
- Forms and computers make it easier
- Free genealogy charts and forms
- Look for more information in your home
- To locate living relatives
- Choose an ancestor to learn more about
- Ask relatives for information
- Citing sources
- Organize and document as you go
- Evaluate the evidence
- What is a GedCom?
- Find living people
- 20 tips to keep you on the right track
- Step 2 — Add New Branches to Your Family Tree Using the Internet
- See if someone has already found info on your ancestors
- First, search existing family trees online
- How to export your tree from Ancestry.com
- Search for a published family history
- Message boards
- Where to search (chart)
- What is a family history center
- How to use the family history library catalog
- Search other records for missing info
- Search engines
- Free research guides and outlines
- Census records: a snapshot of history
- Census comparison charts
- Immigration records
- Naturalization records
- Military records
- Libraries and organizations
- African American roots
- Hispanic American roots
- Jewish resources
- The best LDS websites
- Other ethnic resources
- Additional ways to do research online
- Social networking websites
- Mailing lists/newsgroups
- Surnames and family associations
- Queries/help lists
- Step 3 — Connect with the Lives and Stories of Your Ancestors
- Benefits of connecting with ancestors
- Appreciating your heritage
- Tools to help reflect on the past
- Honoring your ancestors
- Timelines and history
- Photographs, videos and scrapbooking
- Newspapers and periodicals
- Cemeteries/obituaries/death records
- Maps and geography
- Court, land and financial records
- Tracing your medical heritage
- Royalty and nobility
- Heraldry and arms
- A Directory of Software and Tools
- Which software is the Best?
- Software review by experts
- Windows family history software
- Web-based software
- Mac software
- Handheld software
- Software tools and utilities
- Best of the Internet
- Best top 10 websites to search
- FamilySearch/New FamilySearch
- What is New FamilySearch
- How to use New FamilySearch
- Help center overviews/guides
- FamilySearch certified affiliates
- Unlocking the granite Mt. vault
- FamilySearch Wiki
- FamilySearch community trees
- FamilySearch Indexing
- Published family histories
- Family History Library catalog
- Searchable maps
- Vital records index
- Ancestry.com
- RootsWeb.com
- Footnote.com
- WorldVitalRecords.com
- GenealogyBank.com
- U.S.GenWeb.org
- U.S. National Archives
- Godfrey Memorial Library
- FamilyTreeConnection.com
- More best of the Internet
- Best web directories/portals
- Best international websites
- Best tools to make it easier
- Other FamilySearch portals
- Best sites for vital records
- Best sites for "What's New"
- Organizing & Archiving
- Organizing your information
- Getting started
- Organize folders first by surname
- Color code your files
- Filing you documents
- Using 3-ring binders
- Organizing you emails and letters
- What are your memories worth?
- Create your own family archive
- Archival tools
- Archiving your digital files
- Information loss
- Understanding file formats
- Scanning your family history
- Organizing & preserving your digital files
- Keeping up with technology
- Handheld computers and software
- Do what works for you
- Leaving an Enduring Legacy
- One hundred years from now
- Resources fro writing your history
- Hidden benefits of keeping a history
- Helpful software & websites
- Books to consider
- Web articles
- Collecting your family stories
- Conducting an oral interview
- Interview guidelines & questions
- Other Rewarding Opportunities
- Sharing your family history
- Publishing your family tree on the web
- Creating your own family website
- Creating you own family blog
- Creating your own online photo album
- Organizing your family
- Holding a family reunion
- Family association goals
- Glossary
- Index
In summary, Crash Course in Family History is both an excellent primer for the beginner and an excellent directory and guide for any family historian.
Using Google-Power to Connect to Your Ancestors; by Paul Larsen; CD; Published: 2012, ISBN: 9781937900007; eBook; Item # PL05; $9.95
A Simplified Guide to Harnessing the 'Full-Power of Google' to Discover Your Family Tree and Story
This is a short, fully-illustrated eBook that will undoubtedly help you greatly in discovering your family roots, filling-in missing information on your family tree, and adding richness to your family story. It contains "live" (hyperlinked) websites, linked YouTube tutorial videos, and many other resources in a user-friendly format. It's an ideal resource for anyone interested in conducting in-depth searches.
Learn About
- The many free, useful, even-indispensable Google tools and services to help you connect to your ancestors
- How to access the wide array of power tools that are hidden beneath the surface of Google's clean, simple interface
- Advanced techniques for maximizing the Google search engine and extract the best content from Google
- A wide range of advanced web search techniques
- How to get the most out of your Google searches
- How to find the exact information you need
- How to customize Google for your own power-searching needs
- How to get up-to-the-minute news from thousands of sources at Google News
- How to set up automated tools that search while you sleep
Your Family History Tech Toolbox; by Paul Larsen; CD; Published: 2012; Item # PL04; $19.95
"Your Family History Tech Toolbox" Book Review
Your Family History Tech Toolbox: Cutting-Edge Tools to Make Your Family History Research Easier, Faster, and More Fun is not just a long title; rather, it is an apt description for this ebook by Paul Larsen. The book is a fully-illustrated, easy-to-learn guide to the tech tools and gadgets family historians want and need. From basic essentials to mobile apps, researchers need the best tools for the job. Larsen uncovers these tools and explains them in easy language. Using these tools the reader can find faster ways to search, to organize data, and collaborate with others.
The Tech Toolbox guide the reader through a series of chapters beginning with the "essential tools" and moving on through software and Internet tools and ending with gadgets and apps. In all, this book contains 140 illustrated pages filled with dynamic content. Most of the tools and gadgets mentioned contain links in the text from which the user can jump to webpages with more information, or in many cases, to the actual service, content, or tool provider.
Larsen says, "it takes good tools to do good work." This ebook was written and designed to help genealogists find those good tools and put them to good use. The book comes on CD with your choice of pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format file for computers and tablets, or select the ePub file for smaller tablets, smartphones, etc. The .pdf format will work on both Windows based PCs and on Macs.
Contents
- Preface
- 1. What is a ‘Family History Toolbox’?
- 2. What’s In a Family History Tool Kit?
- 3. Your Basic Essential Tools
- Family History Software
- Free Online Software Directory
- Free Online Software Tools & Utilities Directory
- Free Software Reviews by Experts
- A Free ‘Family Tree’ Email Address
- ‘How-to’ Book/eBook: A Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide and Resource Directory
- Free Intro Video: Crash Course in Family History
- eBook – My Family Tree: Where Do I Start? 3-Easy-Steps
- Beginners Helps/Tutorials
- Valuable ‘How-to’ Articles/Videos/Podcasts/Blogs
- Free Tools, Forms, Calculators and Worksheets
- Wikis: Key Information Source
- FamilySearch
- Wiki WeRelate
- Wiki Ancestry Wiki
- 101 Best Web Sites: Family Tree Magazine
- Flash Drive (USB)
- 4. More Valuable Cutting-Edge Tools
- A New Google Tool to Search for Your Ancestors
- ‘How-to’ eBook: Using Google Power to Connect to Your Ancestors
- eBook Formats for Different Devices
- Google News Reader: Helps You Stay Connected
- How to Set Up Google News Reader
- iGoogle and Family Tree Gadgets
- How To Create Your Own iGoogle Homepage
- How to Add Family Tree Gadgets
- Using Google Plus+ for Your Genealogy
- Free Video: Google+: A Quick Look
- Free Video: How to use Google+
- Free Video: Google Search Tips
- Free Video: Google Alerts & Google Books
- Skype: Helps You Connect and Collaborate with Others
- Facebook Research Community
- Dropbox: Store, Sync and Share Documents
- Free Heritage Collector Software
- Diigo: A Powerful Tool
- Evernote: Save and Store Your Notes
- AncestorSync: Keeps You Up-to-date
- GenSmarts: Your Research Assistant
- MagiCensus: Your Census Tracker
- Tpstry: Find Living Relatives
- Online Photo-Sharing
- Picasa
- Flickr
- iCloud Photo Stream
- Shoebox
- InstaGram
- PrintFriendly Tool
- The Power of PDFs
- Adobe PDF Guide
- Converting to PDF
- Adobe Reader
- Resources for Using PDF
- ezPDF Reader
- iAnnotate PDF
- PDF Expert
- GoodReader
- Free Relationship Tools
- Relationship Finder App
- Online Backup
- SSD Backup
- Cloud Computing
- Why Screen-Capture?
- 5. Handy Gadgets and Gizmos
- Recording and Archiving Your Family Story
- Recommended Digital Formats
- Archiving Your Memories Digitally
- How to Digitize Audio
- Baylor Oral History Institute
- Digital Voice Recorder
- Use Your SmartPhone as a Digital Recorder
- iTalk Mobile App
- Use Your iPod as a Digital Recorder
- Free Video: Using an iPod and a Micromemo
- Mini Microphone
- Writing and Publishing Your Family Story
- Armchair Genealogist
- BYU Ancestor Resources
- About.com Articles
- Creating an eBook Instant
- Print-on-Demand
- Tablet Computers
- eReaders: A Really Useful Tool
- Calibre: eBook Management Tool
- eReader Apps
- Bluefire Reader App
- Aldiko Book Reader
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Sources for e-Books
- eBookstores
- Online Digital Libraries
- Lending Libraries
- Using GPS for Your Family History
- GPS Free Video Tutorials Using
- GPS to Locate a Cemetery Locating
- GPS Coordinates Geotagging
- Buying a GPS Device
- Smart Phones with built-in GPS
- Free Video: Using a Smartphone GPS
- Scanners / Digital Cameras
- Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally
- Purchasing a Scanner
- Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner
- Digital Cameras: A Beginner's Guide
- Digital Photography for the Genealogist
- Wikipedia: Digital Photography
- ‘Stitching’ Photos
- 6. Mobile Apps
Application programs for tablets and smartphones
- Online App Stores
- Using Your SmartPhone for Family History
- Family Tree Apps
- Ancestry.com
- Families
- Family Bee
- GedStar
- GeneDroid
- GedView
- Family Trees
- MobileFamilyTree
- Reunion
- Facebook Apps
- Family Tree
- Family Village
- I Remember
- Live Roots
- Mundia
- We’re Related
- Grave Site Apps
- Going Digital at the Cemetery
- How to Find Your Ancestor’s Cemetery
- BillionGraves
- Find Grave
- RIPNAV.com
- iPad Apps
- Ancestry.com
- BillionGraves
- Dropbox
- Evernote
- Families
- FamViewer
- GedView
- GoodReader
- iAnnotate PDF
- iHeritage
- PDF Expert
- Puffin Browser
- Research Logger
- Reunion
- Skyfire Browser
- Glossary
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