How to Use Excel for Genealogy Research

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Learn how to use Excel for Genealogy. This episode shows how to use Excel and some tricks to using it for genealogy. Here I show how to edit, color, move, delete, insert cells, rows, columns and more. Learn different reasons to use Excel for family history, like outlining DNA matches, extracting data from indexes so it can be filtered to your answers or research questions, and correlating evidence.  This is a great video for beginners and intermediate Excel users alike. It is a step by step process of how to use Excel.  If I can do it, you can too!

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