Zotero is great for genealogy for all of these reasons and more:
- It is free, with the stability and support of a university backing it up.
- Even if you are syncing to the Zotero cloud, you can do that for years on free storage, before you have to buy some. And when you do buy storage, it’s inexpensive and unlimited.
- It provides the structure missing from tools like OneNote and EverNote, but brings substantial flexibility, along with the structure.
- It can add most catalogued online source citations to your Zotero library with one click.
It can organize and provide one-click access to the thousands of documents, spreadsheets, photographs, and other files you have saved to your hard drive. In essence, it can draw all those files together into a uniform, organized system.- Zotero becomes your door to all you have collected.
It allows you to create a record once but to file it in as many folders as you want without taking up significant extra space. You make a change once, and it changes in every folder.
- You can find things rapidly, even if you only have vague memories of having long ago found a document that might be of use in solving a new genealogical problem.
It will sync to the cloud, allowing you to access your work at Zotero.org, wherever you have Wifi access.
Back in the USSR
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I’ve just finished reading two books on Russia, well, actually the old
USSR, set 30 years apart — one in the 1960s, and the other in the 1990s
when the USS...
5 years ago
