FILE FRIDAY - Individual City Directory Worksheet

When you need to track an ancestor or his family more frequently than every ten years from a census, city directories are a good place to turn. Thanks to Cecily Bishop for creating a printable Individual City Directory Worksheet in MSWord format. By the time you complete an entire worksheet, you've created a mighty good migration trail from which to look for other surviving documents that may mention your ancestors.

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FILE FRIDAY - Jenny L's IDG post with printable forms

AAACK! It's Friday the 13th, but there's no need to worry. A day in the life of an organized genealogist might include laying out printouts of the documents collected to solve a research question, say about an ancestor's birth. Eventually our computer desks are piled high, and it's easy to get lost in the mess. 

Jenny Lanctot's recent post "Start Your Research on the Right Foot" from The In-Depth Genealogist blog includes:

• Jenny's Family Group Sheet
• Jenny's Completed Search Checklist (reminding herself to look for this and that)
• 1940 US federal census extraction form
• and a particularly interesting Census Comparison Chart

Thank-you, Jenny, for some thoughtful forms we're happy to feature for TOS' File Friday.

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FILE FRIDAY - Checklist for gathering from the 4 corners of your home

 

Today's File Friday post comes to us from the old 1997 BYU's Ancestors TV Series handouts, unearthed by Judy Young Tuccinardi as Checklist1.pdf Version 1..The information is still good. It's all about gathering every possible document, heirloom, journal, letter, and bible record into one place. Look high and low throughout your house. 

You know you've been meaning to do this. 

You know you cannot possibly get genealogically organized until you do this. 

So hurry, before the holidays take over your dining room table, get it all pulled out, so you know what you've got. Then you can organize, categorize and prepared to scan documents and archive heirlooms over the winter months. I guess you'll have to stack things up on the extra shelves in the guest bedroom closet until the New Year, eh?

FOR FURTHER READING

This is the link to Cousin Russ' ingenious The Organized Genealogist File Listing Directoryhttp://bit.ly/TheOrganizedGenealogistFILES

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