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Using Google Drive to Solve Research Challenges

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Mar 13, 2020
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About this webinar

Let’s avoid the pinball approach to family history research by using software in the cloud to systematically record our active research. Learn how Google Drive is your free virtual sandbox for collating transcriptions, creating timelines, resolving conflicting evidence and composing our proof arguments before placing our conclusions in our genealogy database programs such as Legacy and Family Tree Builder.

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DearMYRTLE
DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of Pat Richley-Erickson, author of the award-winning DearMYRTLE Genealogy Blog, consistently among the top 5 family history blogs internationally, where the focus is beginning genealogy topics. DearMYRTLE hosts
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Russ Worthington
Russ Worthington lives in the beautiful Northwest corner of New Jersey that most people don’t know exists in his beautiful state (no exit numbers). He started “collecting his ancestors” about 15 years ago when his youngest daught
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