Organise your family history. Avoid feeling overwhelmed
Organise your family history and avoid feeling overwhelmed. Here are four planning and organising strategies to help get you back in control.
Organising family history
Articles about how to set up and maintain systems for managing family history research, files, physical collections, and digital assets simply and consistently.
Use Excel to track birth, death and marriage records
A Births Deaths and Marriages index in Excel can help you plan your family history research and save money by minimising duplicate purchases.
How to stop duplicating your research
Here are some simple steps to minimise the risk of unnecessary duplication in family history research, to save you time and money.
Managing vital records
Vital records, such as birth death and marriage records, are essential in family history. We need to take steps to manage them efficiently.
What will happen to your family history after you die?
If you have spent many years working on your family history you should make arrangements for what you want to happen with it after you die.