Using Zotero to Organize and Annotate Your Family History Research
Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS
Content
Welcome
2m 49s
Speaker's Introduction
56s
Introduction
17m 5s
Building Blocks
12m 8s
Notes and Interface
10m 52s
Demo
52m 20s
Announcements / prizes
4m 14s
Questions / answers
3m 44s
About this webinar
Keeping track of and organizing our research materials can be overwhelming. Genealogists use a wide variety of sources and reference tools to discover and dig deeper into our family history: historical records, books and periodicals, photos, maps, videos, articles and web pages, reports, databases, digital archives, etc. Zotero is a free research and citation management system heavily used in academia, but it can also be extremely valuable for genealogists whether for their family history research, or for professional publishing and presentations. It is available for both Mac and PC users. Zotero can integrate well with your existing research workflow and organization tools such Dropbox, Google Drive, and Evernote. What it excels at is letting you apply the same source item and notes to multiple people, families, and projects without having to duplicate those in multiple folders or notebooks.
About the speaker
Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Calif...
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Comments (84)
Just found this while checking to see what all I'd missed (2020 & 2021 were a challenge just getting through!). I've got a bunch bookmarked, but I got curious about Zotero, and ended up watching the whole thing instead of wrapping Xmas presents! Dynamic presentation. I liked getting an overview like this showing the potential of the entire program. I've used a combination of Evernote and local image and document files for years for my research, but it feels a little scattered. Excited by the potential of Zotero to connect things the way I'd like. Got it downloaded and after the holidays, I'll be checking it out. Especially appealing is being able to add web info on the fly.
Very informative. Too much information in the time alloted! Will watch a few more times to get a complete understanding.
another great webinar and to figure out how to use this great tool for my research
Useful Information
Here's a new tool--and I will use it! Skip save the "favorites" on the browser. Saving on Zotero will be so much more efficient.
Extremely informative
So much to digest. So little time.
Lot of information covered very quickly. I think multiple viewing might be necessary.