I didn’t want to create too many notebooks – one for each surname for example. Nicole is actively research our Welch family line and is adding information as she finds it. Those lines are in completely different parts of the world and don’t intersect until me, so the records I put in each notebook don’t have any overlap.

When I first started using Evernote, I researched various ways others were organizing notebooks for genealogy and and created just two notebooks – one for my maternal line (Kelsey) and one for my paternal line (Shults). The screenshot illustrates my basic notebook stacks with only my Genealogy Research notebook open showing the three notebooks it contains: Kelsey Genealogy Research (maternal line), Shults Genealogy Research (paternal line), and Welch Family Research (Nicole’s shared research notebook). I wrote about the basic organization of Evernote previously, so if you need help understanding notebooks and notes refer to my post, Create Your Own Genealogy Reference Center With Evernote.

The first thing you’ll need to do is decide what notebooks to create.

What is evernote for genealogy