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Digitizing My Family Tree: Formats, Software, and Techniques

Digitizing My Family Tree: Formats, Software, and Techniques

2023-12-07T05:00:00Z 2023-12-08T00:30:00Z Digitizing My Family Tree: Formats, Software, and Techniques Explore the digital options for saving your family history research. Explore the variety of desktop and web-based applications researchers can use for organizing their data. Review best practices for both using these applications and uploading digital scans of records to the software. Virtual Program, Michigan
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Start: December 07, 2023 12:00 AM

End: December 07, 2023 7:30 PM

Explore the digital options for saving your family history research. Explore the variety of desktop and web-based applications researchers can use for organizing their data. Review best practices for both using these applications and uploading digital scans of records to the software. Register Here
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