Ausgen Family History Services

How do you use Genota?

Genota users are a pretty resourceful lot in the ways they have adapted Genota for alternate uses such as:

• Capturing information on model train collections
• Organising high school assignment notes
• Organising poetry collections
• Software company support tasks register and to do list.
• At Ausgen it is also used for recording error logs, and general programming notes.

Handling Census Information in Genota

Genota is the ideal tool for capturing census information and making it available to all research efforts. To records census information:

• Create a new note
• Assign a Category of Census.
• Input a title for the census e.g. USA 1930
• Input the source of the census information.
  
• Under Note Details list any information relative to the census, eg. Month, localities encompassed, irregularities found. etc.
  
• Use included persons to record all persons of interest appearing in the census, eg.
  • Surname /Given Name : < name of the person>
  • Date Type / Date : < date of the census - use January 01 as a default to represent the year>
  • Event
    
  • Location
  • Role
  • Age

Keeping Track of Research Interests

Can you readily identify all of the persons with whom you have contacted in researching a single family line. With Genota it is easy to keep track of fellow researchers by:

Create a new Address Book entry as follows;

• Organisation/Surname [name of the research subject or line]
• Other Names/Address Information [not required/optional]
• Report Name [as for the Organisations Surname]
• Type : [input 'Researchers']

Add a new Contact Point for each researcher.

Alternate method

Create a new Address Book entry for each researcher, inputting information as indicated on the form,except for;:

• Type, where the name of the research subject is input.