New Tools and Ideas in Research

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1. AD

   Arlene Dukanauskas

   3 years ago

   Wonderful webinar. Josh is the greatest. I truly value all his genealogy talks.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Thanks for all the great time management reminders and new resource ideas! Also, great audience questions - I really miss Genealogy Roadshow, best of the lot, because it dealt with 'real people' around the country, not celebrities - hope it comes back!\n\nThanks for all the info. Just need to manage my time to analyze it all and put some into practice.\n\nThanks for expanding research ideas\n\nThe personally most important, interesting webinar I have attended and that's saying somethings since all the Legacy webinars I have attended have much more than excellent!\n\nThe speaker was great! Easy to understand and had so many wonderful points. I listened to this while at work, so will listen to it again to take notes. Thank you very much!\n\nThis gave me much food for thought in how to research and how to use some of the new tools presented in the webinar. Now I have to decide what to use first. How to break all the ideas down into manageable chunks. \n\nThis is where I'm at as a genealogist: looking for process info and planning guidance. This presentation was perfect for my next step. Very well done and informative!\n\nThis presentation was absolutely one of the best to start the new year since it focused on an overall approach. He covered everything from strategies, to specific tools, to how to maintain focus and achieve results. I wish I could have given him a 10! BTW--I love the new Tech Zone. Keep up the excellent work.\n\nThis was by far the best webinar EVER!!! Thank you for all of the great tips and Ideas! Love it! Thank you so much, Joshua!\n\nThis was excellent and provided much food for thought for me. It's honestly the best and most practical webinar I've seen yet. Thank you so much.\n\nThis was GREAT. So much info to think about. I love it when we are given more ways to be productive in our searching\n\nThis was one of the best! Should be recommended for all beginners. Thanks!\n\nThis was the BEST! I love your webinars and this one was really wonderful! It went too fast. Please have him back. Thank you..\n\nThis webinar was very well organized, well thought out, and extremely informative!\n\nTop quality info. Great!\n\nTremendous presenter; topics well-considered and relevant.\n\nUnexpected content given the title, but extremely useful. Great speaker!\n\nVery engaging speaker\n\nVery glad I signed up! I've been to a lot of them but this was def. one of the best.\n\nVery good!\n\nvery helpful for new ideas\n\nVery helpful. Lots of good ideas.\n\nVery Informative\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and Josh is an excellent speaker! One of my favorite webinars so far.\n\nVery informative with excellent examples!\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative, new ideas and resources!\n\nVery informative. It's sometimes hard to stay focused when new information pops up for an ancestor while searching for another. If I follow the time management guide I suppose I should make a note of it and continue with my current search. I think the most important point of his discussion was to leave something helpful for those coming after me.\n\nVery informative. Enjoyed!\n\nVery informative. Wish there was more time to discuss the Web 2.0's.\n\nVery informative. He gave me lots of ideas on furthering my research.\n\nVery informative. Many excellent techniques. Time on screen of slides was too short for transcribing.\n\nVery informative.....thank you!\n\nVery interesting and good suggestions.\n\nVery Interesting and life changing (or research in any case)\n\nVery interesting but hard to break old habits!\n\nVery well organized presentation. Lots of good ideas.\n\nWasn't sure what to expect, but Josh always has great information to share!\n\nWell done!\n\nWell done.\n\nWell done. Fast paced and concise. Thank you\n\nWell presented, well researched, well done!\n\nWhat a fun surprise to hear my name for winning a door prize! Thank You!\n\nWhat a thrill to listen to Josh Taylor. I learned so much and I've been doing genealogy since 1995!!! Thank you Josh\n\nWhat an excellent webinar! Josh Taylor is incredible. PLEASE have him back. Thanks,\n\nwhether in person or on-line, D Joshua Taylor is always a great resource. thank you. \n\nWonderful - but I could have used a full webinar on each of Josh's Ideas!!!\n\nWonderful webinar on new tools and ideas in researching families. \n\nWonderful! Thank you!\n\nWonderful. Please have Josh back.\n\nWOW\n\nWow! Excellent!\n\nWow, Wow, wow.\n\nYou definitely gave some food for thought. Well presented with clear, concise examples

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Looking forward to seeing the presenter at RootsTech! (Not in person, but hopefully online)! He is so organized and smart; I learn a lot from him when he presents.\n\nLot of great information and ideas for a different approach to research.\n\nLots of good ideas that will help anyone do better research. Joshua put it together in an understandable way.\n\nLots of good information to explore.\n\nLots of good information, delivered in an easy to understand format.\n\nLots of great new ideas.\n\nlots of information about databases, organization techniques and examples (i.e. spreadsheets) and how social media websites can also provide valuable information. Thanks!\n\nLots of interesting ideas. Love his research journal thoughts - maybe I'll actually start keeping one. . . consistently.\n\nLots of new way to do research that I hadn't used yet. Thanks\n\nLots of things to ponder!\n\nLots of time management to consider.\n\nLove Joshua but was hoping for a magic key/stone/clue. Already do most of what he talked about. I spend hours getting ready for a genealogical trip and hours when I get back home.\n\nLove listening to Josh. \n\nLove listening to Josh. Key take away for me - slow down and do all the steps! It's easy to get on autopilot when researching and forget to digest. Thank you, Josh and Geoff!\n\nLove your webinars, they are so educational!\n\nloved it\n\nLuv, luv, luv Josh!!!\n\nMany great new resources. Thanks!\n\nmany new ideas to think about, try out, and share with others\n\nMany new tips to try. Could listen to Josh all day!\n\nMany of Josh's recommendations come naturally to an analyst which is what would be inherent to those interested in genealogy.\n\nMany webinars state the obvious. Josh has said things that are not so obvious. EXCELLENT\n\nMasterful performance.\n\nMay be the most useful webinar I ever attended! Specific information to implement in my research.\n\nMore than great!\n\nMostly common sense reminders. It would be interesting to sit through a demo with him to see how actually used some of the tools.\n\nNew concepts that we need to work on - lovely winter projects ahead\n\nOffered some new paths for research.\n\nOne of the best ever!\n\nOne of the best webinars that I have ever participated in! The tools and research strategies that Josh Taylor outlined will improve how I conduct my research. \n\nOne of the best. I had the opportunity to attend one of Josh's full day presentations (for Clayton Library Friends, Houston) some years back and would not have missed this webinar. Great material well presented.\n\none of the very best webinars. Please coax him to return\n\nOutstanding!!\n\nOverwhelming in terms of time I need to be spending beyond on what I'm already spending. I guess that says that what I'm doing is too broad. \n\nPlease have Josh on again.\n\nPlease invite Josh back again. Pleased he is a fellow librarian.\n\nPlease more Josh Taylor\n\nProbably the best webinar I have viewed; very practical information. Great advice for all genealogists. I will be recommending this to others from my Society. Thank you!\n\nProvided much needed motivation to get back in there and do genealogy first!!\n\nreally great suggestions, some I have not considered\n\nRock star Josh! Always the best information, most succinct presentation that gives valuable information and insight! Thanks, Joshua, thanks for hosting him, Legacy Family Tree!\n\nSessions with Josh are always excellent whether it is online or in person. Much food for thought.\n\nSo glad I'm a member! Babysitting grandson, seems flu bug hit, had to leave to clean up what he threw up. Have Josh back again! He is absolutely amazing!\n\nSo much information, I'm glad I'm a webinar member so I can re-watch this! Thanks Josh!!\n\nSolid presentation, glad I attended.\n\nsome good resources I'm not using\n\nSome great new suggestions & old reminders\n\nsome old sites about which I had forgotten, and some new to me ones … a great, all encompassing presentation … thank you.\n\nSuper new genealogy research ideas which will be of great use.\n\nthank you for bringing Josh to LFTW. He is such and organized and thoughtful speaker\n\nThank you for having Joshua Taylor! I enjoy attending his presentations whenever and wherever I can. Looking forward to his next one. \n\nThank you- useful and practical ideas.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   I think Josh is a mind reader! Thank you for a new perspective.\n\nI think the title was a little misleading. The ideas and tools weren't "new". Perhaps a better title would be about Ideas and Tools you haven't thought of using for your research\n\nI thought I was pretty organized but I learned a whole lot of new things; even, programs and software to check out. Thank you.\n\nI was a little late but still got a lot of useful information. The speaker was top notch.\n\nI was late, but the portion I caught was very informative and thought-provoking. I will have to watch the video to get the stuff I missed and I'm looking forward to it.\n\nI would love to see more examples, Thanks\n\nI'd like to rate this webinar higher than 5! Excellent presentation of great ideas.\n\nIn doing a large family line, I found it hard how to apply Josh's practices to my research and concentrate on an individual. \n\nInformation not new to me, but maybe for beginners\n\nIt was a very organized presentation, and the speaker spoke distinctly.\n\nIt was awesome! Thank you.\n\nIt was fast, but so informative. Looks of great suggestions to think about and implement.\n\nIt was GREAT, thank you \n\nJ. Taylor always has new (to me) ideas on researching. I've spent two days on divorce records, not really needed, but I have heard some odd things from older relatives and feel i want to record the truth for my descendants.\n\nJosh gave a lot of tips and pointers that will be very helpful in my research. I especially liked his idea to digitally embed the source citation to images. Great job!!\n\nJosh has re-lighted my genealogy fire. Thank you.\n\nJosh is always great, organized, concise and gobs of help. Thanks as usual for these.\n\nJosh is always phenomenal. I do wish he'd offered actual templates of his Research Journal spreadsheet for us to download. He never showed us a screenshot even of how to start a journal. He showed a different limited spreadsheet, which was a bit of help, but would have been more useful if we could download a sample.\n\nJosh is always prepped, focused and worth and hour of one's time!\n\nJosh is always so thorough and presents in a way that makes great sense.\n\nJosh is an excellent organized speaker who moves his material along and packs his presentation with a multitude of ideas and tips. I have been doing genealogy for many years and learning something new is always most welcome. Love Legacy webinars!\n\nJosh is excellent and his suggestions should help us stay focused on the matter on hand!\n\nJosh is so great at cramming in so many wonderful ideas in such a short time. Can't wait to rewatch and take MORE notes!\n\nJosh mentioned lots of resources we don't normally don't think of as genealogy tools or sources.\n\nJosh Taylor is a wonderful speaker and always gives us some good tips and tricks because he has been doing this for so long. I have heard him speak in person a couple of times--always so enjoyable. Thank you for these Legacy Webinars, Geoff. All of them are so good. It gives people the opportunity to hear great speakers talk on genealogy subjects that many would never get to hear otherwise. Even if some of the information gets repeated, that is never a problem. It just reinforces what we need to know.\n\nJosh Taylor is always a wealth of information.\n\nJosh was a great speaker! He gave us many practical and/or creative ideas to help us with our genealogy research. \n\nJosh was awesome ! Thanks\n\nJosh was outstanding!\n\nJosh was well-organized and delivered information that was new and helpful. I really learned a lot from Josh, especially about the value of time management with genealogy. Well done!\n\nJosh, reminds us that we need to do more than just find, we need to analyze and evaluate as well as publish in some format our findings. This should include negative as well as positive results. But the most important item he gave us .. was Confirmation Bias in which the idea that even if multiple trees show a common ancestor that is not proof of a confirmation of a shared ancestor- they may all be wrong!!! Thanks Josh, I will have to work on that.\n\nJoshua ALWAYS performs!\n\nJoshua Taylor is always good. \n\nJoshua Taylor is an excellent presenter! Always great!\n\nJoshua was an excellent presenter. He kept me interested throughout the presentation. There was so much information & a lot that I never thought about.\n\njust what I needed.\n\nKey idea is to think of what we want our legacy to be, something I have been thinking about with regard to focusing my work more specifically so very timely. \n\nLearned alot!\n\nLearned alot. Extremely well presented. I can't say enough about how great a webinar it was. \n\nLearned new things today, a good webinar.

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Excellent presenter. Very useful info. Particularly like tip about adding citations to documents.\n\nExcellent speaker very articulate!\n\nExcellent speaker with great tips for effective research. I wish we could see those you-tube videos of his though!\n\nExcellent speaker with just the right pace and tone. Lots of valuable information and some new things to think about. I like the format of the 2 webinars I've attended.\n\nExcellent speaker, subject and presentation. I learned some new ideas that I am going to use.\n\nexcellent tips\n\nExcellent tips and methodology\n\nExcellent webinar so informative! There is so many tools I didn't know about before. Thank you for having Joshua Taylor on the webinar today.\n\nExcellent webinar!\n\nExcellent webinar!!\n\nExcellent webinar.\n\nExcellent webinar. Wonderful ideas and a great pick me up webinar. Thanks Joshua and Geoff for the webinar\n\nExcellent! \n\nExcellent! Josh has always been a great speaker and he continues!!\n\nExcellent. Recently have been on a reorganizational question. loved how his talk and his PPt matched up. Made it so much easier that having to search through a hand out that did not follow the talk. Please bring him back. Thanks for the webinar.\n\nExcellent. I needed this so much. Now to put it into action!!!\n\nExcellent. Must have Josh back. One of the best you have done in a long while.\n\nExcellent. Thanks.\n\nFabulous - would love more webinars by Joshua Taylor.\n\nFantastic\n\nFantastic presentation!!\n\nFantastic speaker, Joshua really gave a great summary of some new resources I can try.\n\nFantastic!!!\n\nFantastic!!! I've heard Josh in person several times and he's always even better than excellent. Certainly many of us wish we'd started doing genealogy at the young age when he started! \n\nFood for thought\n\nFresh ideas, new approaches emphasizing efficiency, accuracy, and effectively leaving a legacy of research results.\n\nGet Joshua back again!!\n\nGood ideas and motivators

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6. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   Lots of good ideas; some very new to me.\n\nA 10 is were I would rate this webinar. Clear information that any genealogist can no matter where you lived or where you ancestors live. Need more webinar by Jousha\n\nA fantastic webinar as Josh never disappoints with his presentations. \n\nA few terms with which I was not familiar not explained -- web 2.0, Yippy search engine.\n\nA great overview for all listeners and review for some others.\n\nA great way to start off 2020. Inspires me to continue what I started last fall, going over each family's binder(s) to make sure I've entered all data and analysed it. Just by doing so, as I listened to Josh, I realized that I had an unread census record sitting on my computer - printed it and read it - went to familysearch and found the man's marriage to 2nd wife and his 1929 death in Iowa (he was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada). So I'll be reviewing ALL my research.\n\nA lot of good common sense info, if we think and plan, things will be more organized. Excellent.\n\nA terrific amount of information. Look forward to sharing with members of my class. Well not just my class but me. I really learned a lot. I would like to see more webinars like this.\n\nA top notch presentation! \n\nA wonderful Webinar!\n\nabove awesome!\n\nAlmost missed this one. Glad I didn't. GREAT job.\n\nAn excellent companion piece to last night's webinar about taking the time to plan alternate research paths and then follow through.\n\nAnother one that I have to rewatch. A LOT of new information and a great presentation.\n\nAnother winner! \n\nAnxious to watch it online as I was unable to join at the beginning. But the last half that I saw was fantastic!! Thankis!\n\nAre there any other webinars done by Joshua Taylor?\n\nAs always D. Joshua Taylor has the best and most helpful information and ideas! \n\nAs I expected... it was EXCELLENT!! I can’t wait to see Genealogy Roadshow again!!\n\nAwesome, yes Josh the sequel!!!!\n\nBest webinair I have attended. Speaker outstanding.\n\nBest webinar on the subject. Need a part 2\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of fantastic information to assist with Genealogical Researching.\n\nCan I rate this webinar a 10? I've seen Joshua Taylor in person on more than one occasion (the best was an all day series of workshops). I appreciate his bluntness on what we need to do as good and efficient genealogists. Unfortunately, I have not put into practice all that he says. I need more "doing," and webinars such as these help to move me along the path to improving my ways.\n\nClear and easy to hear, very well organized, with plenty of slides that became talking points for the presentation. \n\nClear logical thinking and organization, Very helpful. Great presenter. Hope he does more.\n\nClear, well paced, great syllabus.\n\nComparing online trees and Web 2.0 archives were topics I haven't heard before.\n\nD. Joshua Taylor is a great presenter both online and in person.\n\nD. Joshua Taylor is a great presenter! I hope there will be more Legacy Family Tree webinars with him in the future.\n\nEnjoyed it very much. Glad you have these free webinars. Thank you.\n\nEnjoyed the summary very much thank you. I will start a research journal - been putting this off for years!!\n\nExceeded expectations!\n\nExcellant !\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent - bring him back for a full genealogy organisation webinar!\n\nexcellent - I do use/write out Genealogy Goals/Plans & did helps greatly to keep focused\n\nExcellent and helpful information\n\nexcellent---- but a lot of ideas in a very short time-frame..... need to watch it again\n\nExcellent content & fantastic presentation!!! \n\nExcellent information !!\n\nExcellent information!\n\nExcellent presentation\n\nExcellent presentation and tips! Hope to see more webinars by Josh!\n\nExcellent presentation! Hope Joshua returns again!\n\nExcellent presentation! The hour went by too quickly. Thank you ! : )\n\nExcellent presentation.\n\nExcellent presentation. Basic organizational concepts that need regular emphasis. Thanks, Joshua.\n\nexcellent presenter and wonderful ideas/suggstions

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7. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   He's a very fluid and authoritative speaker, providing a lot of information in a relatively short period of time, and explaining himself easily and very understandably. I do think he's a lovely edition to the gallery of speakers and hope he makes more contributions in the future. Even though implementing some of his suggestions requires a level of organizing that seems insurmountable, he's done an admirable job of making it feel doable. One step at a time.\n\nHe's such a great speaker....full of good ideas plus enthusiasm. What a treat!!\n\nHope you have Josh back again. He had some great hints.\n\nhow about a 10???? Wonderful webinar and speaker!!\n\nI always enjoy hearing from Joshua Taylore and learn new things form him.\n\nI always learn something from Josh Taylor and take every opportunity to hear him. \n\nI appreciated alternative ideas for tracking my genealogy research and the emphasis on writing/recording/sharing results.\n\nI did learn a few new things today.\n\nI found it very informative with lots of practical advice. Thank you.\n\nI found today's webinar very informative, clear, and well delivered. I will put the information to good use and believe this webinar has helped me improve my genealogy skills. The webinar was geographically neutral (mostly), much appreciated.\n\nI got here late, but enjoyed what I did hear. I will be listening to the recording as soon as it is up. Thank you Josh!\n\nI hope Josh does another webinar soon! \n\nI learned a lot about time management and better use of my time as a researcher. Setting shorter goals and creating a plan really struck home. I've scoffed at\ncreating a research journal in the past, but now understand it's value going forward. I am concerned about leaving my research to my Son in a manageable and enjoyable collection. Thank you so much Josh for this wonderful Webinar.\n\nI love Dr. Joshua Taylor on The Genealogy Roadshow and have been a steadfast viewer since I first discovered the program! Looking forward to the next season! Many thanks!\n\nI love learning new approaches to research!\n\nI love organization so this was right up my alley. Also, it was great to revisit some of the resources I haven't thought of in awhile, such as You Tube.\n\nI loved all the ideas for research! A terrific point about time management as I look at all of my research piles!\n\nI really needed this one.\n\nI state unequivocally this is the BEST presenter and BEST webinar to date. This man knows his 'stuff' and knows how to present his expertise/materials/thoughts so respectfully and thoroughly!!! Such a credit to the fields of genealogy -- and education in general. Any educator in any field should use Mr. Taylor as a model. Even though, as a webinar member, I know I can re-visit this presentation at any time, I do wish, however, some of this slides had been included in the syllabus. Thank you.

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