The Organized Family Historian: How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Geneological Records and Heirlooms

by Ann Carter Fleming

Provides instructions on organizing family history files, interviewing family members, assembling to-do lists, research, and preserving photographs and heirlooms.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 2004

Reviews

[Michael Mcnally · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really useful reference for organizing the whole of your genealogy work, both papers and artifacts as we'll as your research. The edition I read was a little dated, however, which cost it a star. It would be nice to have an updated version that contains more suggestions about digital organization, as well as organizing the intersection between social media and genealogy.

[Karen Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book covering a wealth of topics for beginner to intermediate genealogists.

[Melody Loomis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book if you're into genealogy. I sort of had my organization system already in place, but I feel I got a few tips out of it. The worksheets are included on a cd that comes with the book which you can save to your computer. Those are pretty good and I may use a few of them. The rest of the book goes over the different resources you can use. I like the detailed explanations of each census, like which census lists their month of birth, and which census lists who had a radio. And how the census taker was supposed to record the head of the house first, then spouse, then the children in order. Last were any other people living in the house. All very useful information when you're trying to figure out all of these relationships.

You could say it's a bit outdated, as when this book was published, the 1940 census hadn't even come out yet. But it's still worth a read in my opinion.

[Pat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading this a page or two at a time. I may never get it all, but I'm going to different pages in the book. Hard to say how much is finished, unlike a novel.