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Organization Strategies and Tips
6 Baby Steps to Organize Your Genealogy Work
Does organizing your all your genealogy files and papers seem overwhelming? Start small! Using these baby steps, you’ll have your research tidied up in no time.
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Organize Your Genealogy in a Day: Tips for the Busy Researcher
Always on the move and wish you had a better way to organize your genealogy? Here’s a guide to help you get together everything you need in one day.
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Spring Cleaning Your Genealogy Files and Workspace
Spring is the perfect time of year to tidy up your genealogy research! We’ve compiled some of our favorite organization tips to help you get inspired.
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How to Use Trello to Organize Genealogy Projects and Ideas
Plan your family history research, track ancestor searches, and log your genealogy finds with the free Trello app. Here’s how to use it.
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How to Organize Your Genealogy Research With Evernote
Evernote’s logo is an elephant—because it never forgets. Learn the best ways to organize research notes and files in Evernote with these six steps.
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Genealogical Numbering Systems and How to Use Them
Having trouble keeping track of all your ancestors? Learn how to use a genealogical numbering system and assign numbers to key ancestors.
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12 Steps to Reducing Your Genealogy Paper Clutter
Cutting your paper clutter will sharpen your focus on your family history. Get started with these 12 less-paper strategies and genealogy organization tips.
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5 Genealogy Filing Systems to Get You Organized
These five genealogical filing systems will slim down your weighty piles of paper and quicken your steps to research success.
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How to Make a Basic Family History Binder
Binders are a great tool for organizing and sharing family history research. Learn how to create your own family history binder with our comprehensive guide.
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Family Papers: What to Keep and What to Trash
Old documents, papers, records and other materials that provide information about your ancestors can be valuable research tools. But how do you know what is worth holding on to for a while and what you can afford to let go of to free up some space? Here’s a guide to help you make these difficult decisions.
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6 Tips for Organizing Your Digital Genealogy Files
Learn how to organize your genealogy files on your computer with these practical tips for naming, managing and sorting digital documents and photos.
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5 Activities to Organize Your Digital Genealogy Research Files
These five genealogy activities will help you organize your digital genealogy files. Do these any day you’re stuck indoors to whip your research files into shape.
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A Simple File-naming System for Digital Images
If you’re aiming to get organized, having a file-naming system is key. Check out Denise Levenick’s tips for managing your digitized photos and documents.
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5 Steps to an Organized Computer Desktop
Optimize your computer and find digital files fast with these tips for organizing your hard drive and desktop.
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8 Steps to Organize and Preserve Your Family Photo Prints
Is your collection of family photos less than picture-perfect? Turn your piles of pictures into a model of photo organization in eight steps.
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6 Steps to Organizing and Managing Your Digital Photos
Are your digital photos scattered across your computer, phone and camera? Take six steps now so your family’s visual legacy won’t be lost forever.
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Organize Your Digital Photos Like the Pros with a DAM Workflow
Find out how a digital asset management (DAM) workflow makes it easy to organize and back up your family photos.
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Using and Transferring Metadata in Digital Images and Photos
Metadata can help you store and transfer key details about image files. Learn how to edit and manage the metadata in your digital images and photos.
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7 Tech Tools to Organize Your Family History Collection
End family collection chaos! These seven tech tools help you turn your archive of old photos, papers and artifacts into an organized research resource.
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How to Organize Your Family Keepsakes and Collections
Create and organize a family archive of heirlooms and old photos that future generations will cherish.
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Organize Your Genealogy Research Space Like the Pros
Overwhelmed by clutter? Get ideas to organize with our look inside the workspaces and best practices of six professional genealogists.
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11 Tips to Makeover Your Genealogy Workspace
Channel your inner interior decorator and make over your genealogy space with these 11 inspirational ideas and tools.
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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS*
Organize Your Genealogy: Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher by Drew Smith (Family Tree Books)
How to Use Evernote for Genealogy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organize Your Research and Boost Your Genealogy Productivity by Kerry Scott (Family Tree Books)
How to Organize Family History Paperwork: A Genealogist’s Guide to Effective Record Keeping by Denise May Levenick (Family Tree Books)
How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents’ Stuff by Denise May Levenick (Family Tree Books)
The Organized Family Historian: How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Records and Heirlooms by Ann Carter Fleming (Rutledge Hill Press)
FAMILY TREE PODCAST
Make This Year Your Most Organized Yet: Episode 128
Get the key genealogy organization tricks to make this your best year yet.
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Organizing Your Research: Episode 98
The secret to great genealogy: Learn how to organize your family history research! This episode is all about organization tips, tools and techniques.
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