Free stuff

This page contains free downloads of my own creation to help you with your family history.

Tree Health Assessment Tool

I teach people how to research their family history. I developed the Tree Health Assessment Tool as part of my classes, to help people assess the accuracy and completeness of their family tree.

The Tree Health Assessment Tool can be used in research planning, to help you identify which part of your family tree need more work; and it can be used to document your evidence. It can also be used in DNA research to record which relationships have been substantiated by DNA evidence.

Using Excel series

I use Excel a lot to help me manage my family history research. These blog posts demonstrate some of the ways that I use it.

For more articles and information about using Excel in family history, head to the Excel page.

Using sources series

A lot is written about how to find sources, but not so much about how to use them. This is a series of blog posts I wrote about this important skill.

For more of my articles about analysing sources, go to the Analyse page.

If you like these resources, you might like my book, The Good Genealogist.