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From B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More! These forms are designed to work together. For example, you can use a Sibling form to add children to a Family Form, or use it as a list of siblings of a Source Person or one of their parents on the Ancestor Form. When you fill out a Family Form for parents that are in an Ancestor Form, you can link the two by adding the number of the Family Form to the Ancestor form (between the names of the parents).
Free Genealogy Forms from the Baileys
My wife (Mary Hagstrom Bailey) and I (Duane A. Bailey) are amateur genealogists and have constructed several forms that we use in our own genealogy research. Please feel free to download, view, and print these forms using Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.
Free genealogy forms Printable genealogy charts
They are arranged under three headings: Getting started, which contains the best forms for those new to genealogy research; Moving on, for some more advanced charts, and, finally, Census, for direct transcriptions of individual household returns from the Irish census.
Free genealogy is alive and well
BLOG article by Nancy Hendrickson: How to Research
Free MagicGuides for RootsMagic
Magic Guides are free how-to handouts for our users that cover a single RootsMagic topic step by step, along with both illustrations and tips. Magic Guides are in .pdf format and are viewable and printable with any PDF viewer. They may be freely copied and distributed (but not sold), so they can be used as handouts in user group meetings or when teaching RootsMagic classes.
From St. Louis Genealogical Society. Some of the Free Research Forms are interactive. Alice Hoyt Veen and Nancy like these.
Everyone can use a little guidance from time to time, especially when your family history leads you to unfamiliar records, and to research in new places and eras. We’re creating a series of research guides to help you through these new experiences and alert you to collections on Ancestry® that can help.
BLOG article by Dennis Partridge | Jan 4, 2016 Did you know you’re suppose to actually investigate a genealogical source before you use it?
Genealogy Search Engine for Free Records
Article from Family History Daily: Looking for a simple way to search millions of records from dozens of genealogy websites in one place? This free genealogy search engine allows you to quickly locate documents for your family tree on a wide variety of large research sites, in state and regional archives and on government record pages.
News about upcoming hangouts, meetings and webinars offered throughout the online genealogy community. GeneaWebinars provides a single place to find out about upcoming events. Imagine, one calendar, and links to information on each webinar presentation in a single, centralized spot on the web.
Free Genealogy Book Search. it's huge and has only genealogy books from FamilySearch, Internet Archive and others
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
How to Digitize Old Media Yourself
By Alistair McGowan|December 21st, 2017
How to Donate Your Genealogy Research So It Doesn’t Get Thrown Out
Article by Amy Johnson Crow April 2018 for Family Tree Magazine . Five Tips for Donating Your Genealogy Research to a Library.
How to Find Free Genealogy Records on Subscription Websites
How to Find Free Records on Ancestry
By Alistair McGowan|April 16th, 2019
How to Find Your Ancestors’ Divorce Records
Article by Lisa Lisson
How To Get Started Using Pinterest For Genealogy
BLOG article by Genealogy Girl Talks: Pinterest as a place to bookmark my favorite websites that contain valuable information that I would like to come back to. These are referred to as "pins" and they are placed onto "boards" on Pinterest. Pinterest is similar to the Favorites tab on your desktop computer except it is prettier, organized, and filled with images. The pins also contain links to the websites you wish to bookmark.
How to Know What Genealogy Records are Available at the County Level
"Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources" is an excellent reference tool for all genealogists. As for county records, the book is divided into chapters by states.
How to Make a New Tree with Existing People on Ancestry
BLOG article by digging genealogy:
Article at Family Tree Magazine by Rachel Fountain May 9, 2018. Sometimes it’s a good thing when your roots are showing!
How to Properly Record Names in Genealogy
BLOG article by Kimberly Powell at ThoughtCo: 8 Rules to Follow for Recording Names for Your Genealogy Charts.
How to source your Ancestry.com Tree
Ancestry Academy short video.
Article by Madge Maril August 30, 2016 for Family Tree Magazine
How To Use PERSI To Improve Your Genealogy Research
BLOG article by Lisa Lisson: PERSI is the Periodical Source Index and is the locator guide of over 2.5 million publications. FindMyPast hosts the PERSI index (previously found on the Allan County Public Library site). You will need a subscription to the FindMyPast site. Search PERSI by subject or record type – not by individual ancestors’ names. The 22 subject headings include biographies, church records, court records, etc.
How To Use The Library of Congress Website for Genealogy
Article from Family Tree Magazine
Hundreds of FREE Genealogy Courses
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Iowa Department of Public Health
see also: Genealogy Search Guidelines and Requirements for Iowa Department of Public Health. http://idph.iowa.gov/health-statistics/genealogy
It’s Here! RootsMagic releases Ancestry Features
BLOG article by Michael Booth posted June 28, 2017: RootsMagic’s TreeShare for Ancestry will let you move data between your RootsMagic files on your computers and your personal Ancestry online trees. You can transfer people, events, notes, source citations, and even pictures between the two systems.
Make more genealogy research time with searchable resource list
Blog By Prudence -March 2, 2018 1. Always screenshot everything of interest. 2. Create a checklist of every useful resource....open a blank Google Slides document before I start researching. You will need a free Google account.
Microsoft Templates for Genealogy
Templates in Excel, Powerpoint , And Word
Millions of Homestead Act (and Other) Land Records Are Free Online from the BLM
Article by By Kate Jackson at Family History Daily: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offers a huge number of free land patent records through their General Land Office (GLO) Records collection. In fact, the BLM is truly a wealth of information for getting to know your ancestors, providing free image access to over 5 million federal land title records dating back to 1788.
Most numbering systems are used to display descendants of a given ancestor, while one, the ahnentafel, is used to display the ancestors of an individual.
Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records
This website is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices and registers, obituaries, wills and probate records, and cemetery burials. You can also find information here about searching the Social Security Death Index online....Select a State...
Planting your family tree in the American Revolution
Research guide from ANCESTRY.COM: Revolutionary War (4 pages)
Private Ancestors: How to Prune Them From Your Ancestry Tree
Blog article by Elizabeth O'Neal | Aug 12, 2017 |: Oh great. We’re related through the common ancestor known as Private. Invite yourself as a guest with a different email to view.
Last Updated: 10 December 2017 [Located in Category: Ancestry.COM]
QuickSheet: Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images
Order online from St. Louis Genealogical Society. This four-page laminated booklet is designed to provide citation templates for commonly used genealogical resources found online at Ancestry.com.
BLOG article by Randy Seaver. Links and more links in many categories... exhaustive list of genealogy links!
Research Trackers and Organizers
From FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE: these tools are to help you keep tabs on your genealogy plans and progress, so you can research more efficiently. They're great for tracking which records you've searched, which ones you need to, and what's still in the works.
Roland Historical Society Newspaper Archive
Search Story county Publications including Roland Record, McCallsburg Record, and Oil Bulletin.
A list of rookie mistakes, their consequences, and how experience teaches you to do it better: a self-improvement checklist.
Create one folder for each couple on your pedigree chart.....just one of five things involved in getting ORGANIZED. Family History Is Fun.
BLOG article by Randy Seaver. Tuesday's Tip is: Use Ancestry.com Hints for a Specific Database to Add Content to Your Ancestry.com Member Tree. Your Ancestry Member Tree number is the 8-digit number in the URL. .You will have to substitute your own Ancestry Member Tree number and the database number that you want to search. Bookmark it. Then get hints for that specific database with your people. Then add new info to RootsMagic with standard citation.
Blog by Nann on April 28, 2014 with 30 Comments. Here is a lazy way to scan photographs faster.
A great place to start to learn about Story County in central Iowa, In the Midwestern United States.
Ten Ideas to check off your genealogy Check List!
Whether you are just beginning or have worked on your family tree for years, there can be many different aspects relating to your family and genealogy you have forgotten to investigate, do, search for, collect, or try. The following are just some ten ideas that you might want to consider completing so you can check it off this important list.
Ten Reasons to Join a Local Genealogy Society
Forum at Genealogy.com by Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS
This may be the fastest way ever to scan old family Photos, and its Free
Article from Family History Daily by Jodi Bash: Photomyne is a free app for iPhone or Android systems that can also be accessed on your computer.
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