TOOLKIT
History Pin WWI Hub
Use the History Pin WWI Hub to share your WWI project and let others connect with what you are doing. Your project may be large or small but by sharing it, many more people will be able to make links and connections with you.
Read MoreSmall Scale Time Lines
Small scale or local timelines are a super way of gathering masses of data and presenting it in a simple but informative way. Local timelines are also a good way for a whole community to get involved with a local history project.
Read MoreNew DNA Studies
A new study of European DNA has revealed a third population group that make up the DNA of modern Europeans.
Read MoreWW1 Postcards
WW1 Postcards a rich resource and a visual opportunity, find out how to discover and use the 20K plus postcards on Europeana for the period 1914-1918 and muse over how you might dig-out what ephemera you might have in your loft or research boxes that might help you and others connect and make that next step n researching your project wehther for your family history social, local or special interest project. In the first year of the 100th centenary of WW1 will there ever be such an opportunity to explore and discover what happened and better understand those momentous events?
Read MoreFamily History and Evernote
Family history involves collecting, organizing and retrieving masses of disparate data, is an enormous task. Seeing connections across pieces of data is vital but difficult to manage. Family historians using cloud computing can use Evernote to store and search material by tagging data, making it incredibly easy to retrieve.
Read MoreFamily History and Dropbox
Family history is a data rich hobby, collecting, organizing and analyzing the data takes years of hard work which is why using cloud computing has become such a vital part of the family history toolkit.
Read MoreFamily History and Cloud Computing
How can use ‘cloud computing’ to aid your family history research. Think of the volume of data you have stored about the history of your family. Are you sure your data is backed up and retrievable in the face of a meltdown of your PC? How can you collect research data on your tablet / laptop and have it synced to your PC?
Read MoreMapping the London Blitz
Will the TNA JISC funded Mapping the Blitz Project help those of us that funded it with our hard earn’t tax payers money we do hope so….
Read MoreForenames and Family History Research.
Use forenames in family history research to provide new clues and insights, to help break down those brickwalls that we all meet in our research
Read MoreResearch Notes Collect Curate and Citate
Do you want to use the best FREE tools for the job of managing saving curating collecting and organising lots of data and disparate resources? Whatever your history project, the net and some great tools are there to help you. Toss out the overwhelming bookmarks and make way for something completely different….
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