About a year after our first release, we present genea 2.0 – your genealogy research. Genea has matured over the last year and has become more powerful and has added a lot of features.
Let’s start with research logs. In version 2 we introduce research logs to help you with your research. A research log is where you keep track of everything you do for a specific research objective. You can have multiple research logs. You typically create a research log for a person and his or her family members (spouse and children). Maybe you finally want to break through this brick wall of the birth date and place of an ancestor… In the research log you register what you have found, and what you are looking for. You may want to plan ahead for a visit to an archive for a specific reason, or you plan the work you intend to do online on familysearch.org.
But most importantly, you keep track of everything you do. Creating a note that you didn’t find anything in a location is as important as making a note of what you did find. That way you can review your research and think of other places to look. Research logs are extremely useful if you don’t immediately find what you are looking for. Genea helps you structure you work. You can schedule research in your calendar and share your research log with others so they know where you already looked and what you found.
Notes has become more powerful. Searching on notes, events, places and people has become better than ever before. You can now search on dates of events, including searching on events before, after or between dates. You can search on gedcom tags like MARR, BIRT, BAPM etc. You can search on places and get all related events and much more…
Details are added in several views, to give you more context. A popover is added to get info about the places in the notes view. Another popover is added in the event view to quickly look at the image of the note. Images can now be adjusted for brightness and contrast. Text recognition is added to convert an image to text for normal text, not hand writing of old archives (unfortunately). Now you can import a text file as a note, and set a default text for notes and family sheets.
Research logs together with notes allow you to better organise your family research in a structured and well documented way.
Familysearch.org explains the use of a research log, but there are several YouTube movies of genealogists who explain how to use it.
We will set up a YouTube channel for Genea in de coming weeks, to explain some of the Genea features. We will post the channel here when it is up and running.
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