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GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS

Jonathan Conibere

picks up John Smith’s idea of using a tablet and digital pencil (see p60-61 FT November 2022), and shares the ways in which he employs them in his family history. For Jonathan his need was to be able to use his laptop as usual but with the graphics tablet alongside for taking notes and importing etc. Jonathan explains:

The paper problem

Most family history buffs end up with piles of notes, printed images and numerous pads of A4 paper scribblings.

Packing away at the end of a ‘session’ can be a huge pain – papers can got lost and out of order at the very least.

There must be a way around this I told myself, but not using folders and indexes etc – that

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