March 5, 2012 - Organizing Your Paper Records

Ideas for Organizing Your Files

• Organizing Your Paper Files. Article on Family Search
• Cyndi’s List: Organizing Your Research. Links to dozens of Internet sites about organizing genealogical research files.
• Family Roots Organizer related to FamilySearch pages above. Discusses color codes and pedigree charts.
• About.com-http://genealogy.about.com/cs/organization/a/filing_systems.htm

Sites with Free Forms

FamilySearch.org

They recommend http://www.byub.org/ancestors/charts/ for genealogy forms.

Ancestry.com

These are very hard to find on Ancestry . I found them by search help for forms. I can’t find a main page for this, but if you go to http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/ancchart.aspx, there is a right menu that has the links to the other forms.

Cyndi’s List

http://www.cyndislist.com/free-stuff/printable-charts-and-forms/
Also has direct links to the Ancestry forms as well as many others.

The Bailey’s Free Genealogy Forms

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/
The forms on this site are in English or Spanish.

Family Tree Magazine

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/FREEFORMS