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• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Organizing

  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.

  • 30 Seconds: a Guide to Organizing Your Genealogy Files

    A book by Robert R Langman.

  • Beyond Pedigrees : Organizing and Enhancing Your Work

    A book by Beverly Delong Whitaker.

  • How to Organize Family History Paperwork

    By Denise May Levenick, a Kindle book available from Amazon.com.

  • Managing a Genealogical Project

    A book by William Dollarhide.

  • Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents

    A book by Katherine Scott Sturdevant.

  • Organizing Your Family History Search : Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research

    A book by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.

  • The Board for Certification of Genealogists' Genealogical Standards Manual

    A book by the BCG.

  • The Organized Family Historian : How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Research and Heirlooms

    A book by Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL.

  • The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook : Essential Forms and Letters for All Genealogists

    A book by Emily Anne Croom.

  • You Ought To Write All That Down: A Guide to Organizing and Writing Genealogical Narrative

    A book by Paul Drake.

• Clooz - Connecting People Through Documents

  An electronic filing cabinet and database for systematically storing all of the clues to your ancestry that you have been collecting. Clooz has over 100 different templates are provided to match the types of information contained in the type of document you find. Clooz contains templates for all U.S. federal censuses, 1841-1891 U.K. censuses, 1852-1901 Canadian censuses, and 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses, as well as generic templates for censuses not included, such as state censuses. Can exchange data with the following software: Legacy Family Tree, Roots Magic, Family Historian and GEDCOM files.

  • Clooz Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

    For users of the Clooz genealogy utility software program.

• Custodian 4 for Family Historians

  Database software which helps you to store, index and organise the information you have gathered from all kinds of family history records. Use specialised forms for many record types, build family trees, compile mini-biographies, maintain a library list and keep track of your correspondents and research notes. Use Custodian for general family history research, one-name studies, indexing projects, local history and one-place studies. Keep a computer-based version of all your paper records, documents and lists in one place and minimise endless searching for paperwork.

• Family Genealogy Research File Template

  A convenient method based on Azz Cardfile software, to suit any level of genealogists from basic beginners to expert professionals.

• FamilyRoots Organizer

  Genealogical organizing system with video instructions for sale.

• Genealogy Research Organizer

  Program to store your genealogy data using a drop-line style chart. Holds source citations, too.

• Genota: Organising Your Research

  Genota is a free form research manager designed to assist genealogists and family historians alike document and manage the seemingly endless array of information normally collected during research, whether it be in electronic form or transcribed from archive resources, letters, e-mail, etc.

• How I Do It: A Professional Organizer's Genealogy Workflow

• Personal Knowbase Free-Form Information Database and Note Organizer Software

  Organize your genealogy research notes with Personal Knowbase. This free-form database software for Windows uses keywords to find related information quickly and easily by association.

• ResearchTies

  ResearchTies allows users to record a research objective and the sources to search in order to meet their objective. It streamlines the data entry of search results, allowing users to spend more of their time at an archive conducting the actual searches. Links to online results can be created, and digital images of documents can be uploaded.

• Sassy Jane Genealogy - Organizing Your Genealogy Research Guide

  A 40-page PDF that you can purchase, download and print.

• Treepad: Personal Information Manager, Organizer, Word Processor, PIM, Search Engine, Database, Notes Manager and Much More

  Windows shareware utility to organize all your research data and files.