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reference management software

Under construction One of the repeated processes is to save a url, the associated content, and the date. While GRAMPS permits (sources &) citations may be linked with individuals, events, ...  it is not so great at getting that information back out again in reports. Notes may be used to track urls and note content. (My primary database has about 1000 people,  400 sources, 1000 citations.) I don't recall Reunion functionality on this front. Experience shows that this information does not tend to transfer well with gedcom.  Saw mention of zotero.org in one of genealogy facebook groups today (?) and it struck me as useful for doing the above in the cloud. Did a smidge of searching - see facebook. Installed zotero on windows and chrome. (It was not available in the pc updater.) Entered one web page (must do my own site crawling to get the collection.) The bibliography entry dropped my first name, and used the title I manually added. It did not show the url. The report included the