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Last weekend’s Family Tree University Virtual Genealogy Conference
was a great chance to learn from professional genealogy experts and
from other researchers like me via video classes, message boards and
live chats.

Mark your calendar now for our Winter
2013 Virtual Genealogy Conference, Feb. 22-24.

I’ll bring you a few of my favorite conference tips and tidbits over the next few
weeks, starting with great apps from our Best Genealogy Tablet Apps chat. Interestingly,
they’re not all expressly for doing genealogy. These are some of the apps chat host
Kerry Scott and other participants use to track their trees, manage time, digitize
documents, search websites and more:

• 30/30 for time management—you work for 30 minutes or another set length of
  time, then take a break (iPad)
• Ancestry for displaying
  your Ancestry member tree and doing quick record lookups,
  though the search capabilities are limited compared to the full version of the site (Android
  and iPad)
• AroundMe for finding gas stations and food in unfamiliar towns  (iPad)
• CamScanner for digitizing documents and turning them into PDFs (iPad and Android)
• Civil War Today for newspaper accounts, diaries, letters
  and more from this day 150 years ago (iPad)
• CousinCalc for figuring out exactly how you’re related (iPad)
• DropBox for sharing and accessing files across devices (iPad and Android)
• Evernote for taking notes and making them searchable and accessible across
  devices—you can get
  Kerry’s video class on using Evernote for $10 off in ShopFamilyTree.com (iPad
  and Android)
• Find A Grave for searching the cemetery transcriptions and info on Find A Grave
  (Android)
• Focus Time for time management; you work for 25 minutes and take a 5-minute
  break, with a longer break after four cycles (iPad)
• GoodReader for reading PDF files (iPad)
• Google Translate (iPhone and Android)
• LastPass for keeping and generating passwords (IPad and Android)
• MyHeritage for displaying your MyHeritage family tree
  and searching the site (iPad and Android)
• PrinterPro for printing wirelessly from iPad to printer (iPad)
• Reeder for managing blog RSS feeds (iPad)
• RestingSpot for adding your ancestor’s burial
  location GPS coordinates to the RestingSpot database (iPhone and Android)
• Scanner Pro for digitizing documents and turning them into PDFs (iPad)
• Symbaloo.com as an iGoogle replacement (iPad and Android)
• Wikipanion (iPad) or Wapedia (Android) for using
  Wikipedia
• Wolfram Genealogy & History Research Assistant for a variety of tools including
  historical weather to an inflation calculator (iPad)
• Zite for finding news stories and blog posts about your pet topics, such as
  genealogy (iPad and Android)

Video
classes from the Fall 2012 Virtual Genealogy Conference will be available soon in
ShopFamilyTree.com (and you can check
out classes from past Virtual Conferences now).

And if you’re hungry for more ways to use your iPad for genealogy, you’ll find them
in the new book Turn
Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse by Lisa Louise Cooke—click
here to learn more.