25 Simple Research Hacks Every Genealogist Should Know

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   very good webinar. thank you\n\nVery good.\n\nVery helful. Simply phenomenal.\n\nVery helpful info!\n\nvery helpful information\n\nVery helpful refresher for me. While I knew a lot of these things, it really helps to review and evaluate if I am using these hacks. Thanks.\n\nVery informative and well organized.\n\nVery informative webinar! Wonderful presentation. So much invaluable information that I will definitely put to use. Thank you! \n\nVery Informative, I especially liked the tip about filling a coke bottle with dimes.\n\nVery informative, thank you!\n\nVery interesting and informative\n\nVery, very informative\n\nVery, very informative!\n\nwell done\n\nwell organized. Lots of good info.\n\nWhat I heard was fabulous! Need to hear it over. She is Amazing!!\n\nWonderful flock of tops that will make my searches more productive\n\nwonderful information, so practical.\n\nWonderful presentation with great suggestions.\n\nWonderful tips on how to do research from planning to executing a plan. Fabulous look at some of the resources that are available in Wiki, Family Search etc for free. Great presenter. Lisa is great at making one feel comfortable with making the errors we all make when we lack focus. I cringe every time someone talks about getting off track and searching useless info. Thank Lisa for her wonderful information and presentation style!!\n\nWonderful webinar! Lisa is an outstanding speaker! I learn something new every time I hear her speak! Thank you for your time! I appreciate it!\n\nWonderful!\n\nwould love more details on many of these subjects\n\nWOW!!! What a webinar!!! So many new hacks! First, Legacy local histories and then a look at Scapple! And more ... Excellent syllabus as well! Lisa is an AWESOME teacher! Thanks to all!

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Lisa does a wonderful job. All of her webinars have been interesting and informative.\n\nLisa had some great suggestions for making research less complicated!! Thank you!!\n\nLisa has the greatest info. Always learn something.\n\nLisa is always outstanding\n\nLisa is an experienced genealogist with a wealth of information and an easy talking style. Some of the 25 hacks I have already tried but learned a few new tips today. And that's what makes webinar learning great - in 90 minutes, new ideas can help move extended research along.\n\nLisa is dynamic and super knowledgeable...wonderful information!\n\nLisa is so good and easy to understand..Thank you both for a great Webinar\n\nLisa is so informative and easily understood.\n\nLisa is such a knowledgeable researcher. I can see her years of experience in all the anecdotes she shares. She presents very well and makes it intelligible to all levels of researchers. Great tips!\n\nLisa's presentation are always excellent and most informative. Great handout! Thank you! :)\n\nLots of good ideas I can use! Lisa's great!\n\nLots of good ideas that I hope to use.\n\nLots of good tips for research and logging results.\n\nLots of great tips that I will hopefully put to use! :-)\n\nLots of great tips! Thanks!\n\nLots of great tips, new & old!\n\nLots to remember. Lots to learn. Good information. Hope I can remember to put it into use.\n\nLove Lisa. These are great tips. \n\nLove the free hacks!\n\nMany good and useful ideas.\n\nMany, many good tips.\n\nNice reminder of things to do.\n\nOne of the BEST I've watched!\n\nOne of the best speakers ever!\n\nOne of the best!!!\n\nOne of your best webinars!\n\nOutstanding! These tips will help keep me on track and expand my horizons in accomplishing family research. Thanks so much. \n\nOverwhelming information!!! So much to process. but great!!\n\nRich mixture of research approaches and sources. Very valuable Webinar. So delightful to learn at the end that there are many more Webinars available from Lisa (40?). (Thanks, Geoff.) Clear, straightforward powerpoint pages with strong focused content information. Insight into how the speaker "thinks" as a Researcher. Thank you again for the ease of using the Webinars.\n\nSeveral valuable tips to assist in my research.\n\nSo detailed presentation!\n\nso many great ideas! A must re-watch. Thank you Lisa and Geoff.\n\nSome great tips. Thanks, Lisa!\n\nSome was a good review and some info was new. Well worth the time. \n\nSUPER !!!!\n\nSuper webinar, organized, concise. More from Liza. I do a lot of webinars, some paid, some free. This was an awesome bargain and I am an "old-timer" researcher for many decades. Even I learned things and was reminded of things... \nTHANKS\n\nSUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nSuperb!\n\nTerrific as usual. Always watch Lisa\n\nTerrific webinar!!! So many places to improve my research skills. Thanks!\n\nThank you for making these available.\n\nThank you for sharing so many valuable ideas to use as I search for my family. I only wish I had used more of them starting 30 years ago. I guess I should be thankful I was aware of some of them. Oh well, there is no time to lose. Thanks\n\nthank you!\n\nThere was so much useful information that it will take more watchings to absorb it all! Thank you!\n\nThis was a very good webinar. I picked up lots of tips for furthering my research goals. Lisa was very knowledgeable.\n\nToms of great ideas & tips! Thanks!\n\nTreasure chest of info. Thank you.\n\nvery good tips\n\nVery fast paced but good tips and presented in a way that it was easy to follow. \n\nVery good tips. Thanks

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Great\n\nGreat content.\n\nGeoff's tip about Legacy and Lisa's reminder to set Google alerts were the best of the bunch for seasoned researchers.\n\ngreat ideas\n\nGreat ideas for removing some of the "spinning my wheels" and "brickwalls" from research.\n\nGreat ideas!\n\nGreat info! Gave me lots of new ideas. Thank you.\n\nGreat information and good presentation. The slides were easy to read and follow and the pacing was very good.\n\nGreat information! Thank you.\n\nGreat information. Liza is always worth listening to.\n\nGreat job and fantastic syllabus!!\n\nGreat job, Lisa! You packed an incredible amount of useful information into the time given. I know what I learned today will be helpful in my genealogy searches. Thank you!\n\nGreat list! I do a lot of what she suggests, but she emphasized some things that I need to do better on. Thank you!\n\nGreat Presenter. Excellent information. Now, if I could only be as Organized as Lisa. Is there a pill for that?\n\nGreat reminders for our research\n\nGreat speaker and interesting subject. I will use what I learn.\n\ngreat suggestions, as always\n\ngreat that she brought in options from other experts. \n\nGreat tips!\n\nGreat tips.\n\nGreat tips. I now have some "to-do" items, including how to dictate to my iPhone. Thanks for a great webinar!\n\nGreat webinar and syllabus too, Lisa. Thank you.\n\nGreat webinar Thanks. \n\nGreat webinar with lots of great tips!\n\nGreat Webinar. Needed 2 hours. Lots of good tips.\n\nGreat webinar; one of the best I've ever seen. Lisa's webinars are concise, yet filed with information.\n\nGreat!\n\nGreat!\n\nGreat! Add 5 to my above score.\n\nGreat, as always!! I love her handout and I'll be listening to it again. Thanks so much.\n\nHelpful tips \n\nHelpful, clear, easy to follow\n\nI enjoyed it - lots of great tips, well-organized, and presented in an engaging manner. Thanks!\n\nI learned a lot today. I have been away from genealogy for a while but am motivated to return. I think I am going to go the "Do Over" route and do it right this time.\n\nI liked how well the tips went with the handout. Makes the handout very valuable by itself. Thanks.\n\nI need to watch this again 3 more times to get all this fabulous info!!\n\nI really enjoyed Lisa's webinar. She had ideas for the novice but also for the more experienced genealogists. \n\nI will use many of these tips, but as one person noted, some of these steps could be topics by themselves.\n\nI'm glad put each "hack" in the comments. I would have appreciated a handout. Great ideas in the list.\n\nInteresting. The best tip was the one about the Family History list by person under legacy\n\nit was easy to follow along and even though I used other programs than Legacy/My Heritage I'm sure the tips will translate. \n\nIt was helpful, but a bit too basic for my taste. \n\nI've been doing genealogy research for 40+ years and am always learning new things and this webinar was a wonderful tool....I learned a lot of new things that I will be putting to use. Thank you for hosting these very informative webinars.\n\nJam-packed session, lots of interesting ideas and some good reminders of best practices that we don't always follow. Lisa comes across as energetic and knowledgeable. She has a very pleasant speaking voice.\n\nlearned a few new terms and web sites that I had not heard before.\n\nLearned so much from this and got great ideas and research tips.\n\nLisa - winner of "Most Tips per Minutes"\n\nLisa always has good tips and tricks. She has a great speaking "pace" and is easy to understand.\n\nLisa Alzo always delivers highly useful information, and this webinar was no exception.\n\nLisa Alzo is an excellent presenter with a lot of good ideas.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Very interesting\n\nA lot of new tips, websites, and webinars to research! Thank you for making this a fee webinar. I do plan to purchase a monthly or yearly subscription.\n\nA real treat. Thanks\n\nA wonderful collection of ideas and a great presentation by Lisa Alzo. thanks!\n\nAbsolutely amazing!\n\nabsolutely informative and well done. Thank You\n\nActually, it's a 10. They are all good. But I think this is the best one.\n\nAlways enjoy Lisa Also, wonderful hack genealogy! Jeanne\n\nAlways great webinars by Lisa.\n\nAlways love Lisa's webinars!\n\nAlways one of the best presenters\n\nAn excellent webinar. Five+ rating. Will be watching again and again. Give a big thank you to Lisa.\n\nAnother excellent webinar - I learned a few new tricks, and got reminded of some very useful hacks as well!! \nDefinitely motivated to do more focused research! Cheers.\n\nAnother great webinar by Lisa.\n\nAwesome suggestions!\n\nAwesome webinar! So many good ideas presented with details on how to use them. Very organized and relevant.\n\nAWESOME! What a fabulous list for both struggling newbies and older genealogists. I'm actually going to print up this list and hang it on the wall in my research area to inspire and remind me to keep on track. Great webinar!\n\nBest of all kinds of genealogical webinars! Good hints and tips; helpful recommendations for apps and/or programs (but not trying to sell them); a creative thinking and engaging speaker!\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of really useful hints to help with Genealogy research.\n\nClearly presented. Always a pleasure to hear Liza. I particularly didn't know about the history books lists in Legacy - great!\n\nEven though I don't consider myself a beginner genealogist, even some of the most beginning tips were good reminders, (when we get rushed, we don't always follow the best genealogy practices).\n\nevery interesting\n\nExcellent\n\nEXCELLENT\n\nExcellent - as usual!\n\nExcellent - lots of good informatio, presented well and great handout. I loved the pace! \n\nExcellent !!!!!\n\nExcellent as always\n\nExcellent as usual\n\nExcellent content!\n\nExcellent tips, examples, and recommendations.\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! Excellent! Excellent!\n\nExcellent! Good info and easy to understand!!\n\nexcellent!! great value for free!\n\nExcellent. Lisa is very knowledgeable and packs a wealth of information into the webinar.\n\nExcellent. Thank you.\n\nExcellent........ presented clearly and gave a lot of good information.. just might have to watch this one again, but did make notes provided I can read them. Now when I get back being able to spend more time on genealogy I just need to put some of these in practice. \n\nFantastic presenter!\n\nFantastic! It had a lot of helpful information.\n\nFantastic!!!\n\nFor a beginner, there's lot of information to start with! Thank you for all of the resources!\n\nFound many interesting tips to help in research\n\nGlad I'm a FT Webinar member so I can watch again! A lot of good information given! \n\ngood\n\ngood information\n\nGood reminders and a few items that I hadn't thought of before. Good work, Lisa\n\nGot lots of good information from Lisa's webinar that I can put to use.

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