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March 29, 2006
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Over at the DearMyrtle blog, there are two different posts mentioning taking your genealogy databases from your genealogy software and carrying and accessing them on USB flash drives. The topic came up as people were talkiong about using PAF or GEDCOM files, and apparently some genealogy software makers make their software available for free at Family History Centers.
The first - Legacy:
I access my genealogy from my Flash drive at the Family History Center. They have Legacy 6 installed on all 6 computers. Millennia Corp gives FREE licensing to FHCs. You might want to mention to your audience that if the FHC they visit doesn’t have it installed, they can request that the FHC install it. The FHC just has to contact Millennia and request the License Key for the Deluxe version.
The second, RootsMagic and Personal Historian:
I didn’t know if you knew this (after reading the most recent entry in your blog), but RootsMagic also offers a free unlimited license to all FHCs to install both RootsMagic and Personal Historian on their center computers. They just need to visit:
http://www.rootsmagic.com/fhc
to request their free copies for their centers.
Apparently these four applications are available at many Family History Centers (and/or can be installed with special license keys available to FHCs):
* Legacy Family Tree
* PAF Personal Ancestral File
* Personal Historian
* RootsMagic
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March 27, 2006
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It’s been a slow past few weeks in the world of genealogy and handhelds, but you might find this interesting: CNET Asia has a photo history of Palm PDA’s
One of the editor’s at CNet even wrote a happy birthday message.
Ziff Davis Net has a little article about it as well.
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March 15, 2006
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GottaBeMobile.com has a review of the DocuPen RC800 Scanner. Rob Bushway wrote the review, and discusses his workflow with the DocuPen. For those of you not familiar with it, the DocuPen is a handheld color scanner that is incredibly small. You have to see it to understand just how portable this thing really is. The manufacturers claim you can store it in a shirt pocket, but Rob points out it’s just a little too tall for that. He goes into using it with OneNote and a Tablet PC.
Quote: “Being able to scan, import, store, search these documents is a huge productivity boost. Never underestimate the power of having all of your documents with you in one place. Being able to scan these documents while on site, and then using my tablet pc to work with the document, take notes on it and then have that available to me later is a mobile professionals dream.”
Sounds like something that any genealogist could find handy. For more information and purchasing information, you can view the DocuPen’s homepage at planon.com. No word on compatability with non-Windows sytems.
via jkOnTheRun
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March 10, 2006
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Northern Hills Software has a released a major update in their Pocket Genealogist public beta for version 3.0 series. This is version 3.00A56 Public Beta. Pocket Genealogist is a PocketPC/Windows Mobile based genealogy application, and this series is part of the 3.0 public beta series. This release incorporates several major changes, including Windows Mobile 5.0 improvements, as well as a rework of the To Do imports.
Note: Requires re-import of database
To download and view a status of the changes coming to version 3.0 of Pocket Genealogist, please refer to this page (northernhillssoftware.com).
Changes:
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March 4, 2006
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The PalmOS genealogy application, GedStar Pro has been updated to GedStar Pro 3.1c. It can be downloaded here (GedStar Pro site). This version fixes a bug where multiple internal TMG (The Master Genealogist) exhibits are not being converted properly.
This update is recommended if the following new features are applicable to you:
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March 4, 2006
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There is a new Pre-Release of Pocket Genealogist, from Northern Hills Software. This version is Pre-Release 2.96.18, and can be downloaded from here (pocketgenealogist.com).
Changed:
* “British Quarter Date” (Legacy Family Tree) now called just “Quarter Date”
Fixed:
* Fixed GEDCOM output of Calculated Dates
* Family Historian “Freeform” (non-standard) dates now work better. (Requires re-import of FH databases)
* Fix to RootsMagic To Do’s to properly populate Last Work Date and Completed Date (They were reversed) (Requires re-import of RootsMagic databases)
* Fix to GEDCOM output of Double Dates
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February 24, 2006
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PC World has an article about using the Treo as a Notebook Alternative. They are using a PalmOS-based Treo 650, and basically trying to do the things they’d normally do with a notebook: “sending and receiving e-mail, with and without attachments; writing and editing Microsoft Office documents; and browsing Web sites.”
This is part 1 - part 2 will be posted next week.
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