Websites and applications mentioned in talk to Wellington SeniorNet, February 2010



Research, and collecting graphics:

Copyright Council of New Zealand

Cyndi’s List of genealogical sites on the Internet [Key portal]

Google Image

FamilySearch

Findmypast

Papers Past

New Zealand Genealogy Forum (special interest group)

New Zealand History Online's genealogy Links [Key portal]

New Zealand-L (special interest group)

Rootsweb (special interest group)

ScotlandsPeople

 

Blogging:

My blog about blogging for genealogists

GeneaBloggers (portal into over 800 genealogy and family history-related blogs)

 

Graphics programs

Cam to Scan

FastStone

FastStone Capture

Hypersnap

IrfanView

Photofiltre

Picasa

 

PDF maker programs

Adobe Acrobat (full version)

Primo PDF

 

Storage and 'cloud' backup programs

Dropbox

Evernote

My review of Evernote

Syncplicity

 

Page layout programs

InDesign

Microsoft Publisher

Quark

Advice on laying out books in Microsoft Word (if you must!): here and here

 

Genealogy programs

Family Tree Maker

Legacy

Master Genealogist

Paint.NET

Personal Ancestral File (PAF)  Also here