Portal:Genealogy

Welcome to the Genealogy Research Portal.

• Genealogy - A basic explanation.
• Genealogy Glossary - genealogical terminology that might appear in the Gramps online documentation

Good practices for genealogical research

• Genealogy basics - A good place to start.
• Portable Digital Records in the Familypedia website. Select names for your digital files which don't cause headaches later.
• Organize your records - A look at general organizing principles for genealogy records.
• Organize your files - A look at some different ways to organize your electronic files.
• Meaningful file names - Ideas for selecting names for your digital files which tell you something about the file or folder.
• Sources - Sources play a key role in genealogy. Read about how to use and manage them.

Genealogy resources

• Other genealogy software - programs to track your ancestry
• Other genealogy tools - tools to help you make a website, a genealogical tree, ...
• Resources and related sites
• Existing reports from other genealogy programs

Around genealogy

• Dictionaries:
  • Latin in genealogy

• Storage of archives and documents management
  • Optical character recognition

• Pictures:
  • Improving picture quality: How-to on making pictures of documents more readable.