Guides & Tips¶
The manual describes what each page in PastPaths does. The guides show how you can use the program in practice – ways of working, shortcuts and ideas that don't quite fit on a single manual page.
Get started with your research¶
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Move your family history from MyHeritage or Ancestry
Bring your family tree to a program on your own computer – and get it in order once it's there.
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Find the gaps in your research
Use the statistics and the calendar as a to-do list – people without a place, places without coordinates and dates that don't add up.
Work smarter¶
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Add things where you are
Create people, places, events and media right where you find them – so everything is linked from the start.
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The blog – more than family stories
Fact collector, research log, diary and transcriptions – five ways to use the blog in your research.
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Tags and categories in practice
Work tags as a to-do list, project tags and themes – so tags help you instead of becoming yet another list.
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Place packs as a foundation to build on
Use the Place Library's counties, dioceses and ports as a framework – so everything is spelled the same and the tree stays tidy.
Research more carefully¶
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Review a branch – step by step
Find mothers who were nine and children born after their father's death – before the mistake follows you further back in the tree.
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Pick up where you left off
Bookmarks, research notes and Recently changed – so you always know where you were, even after three weeks.
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