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Tips and resources for organizing your genealogy research, including lessons and how-tos, software, books, supplies, and more!

Binders, Notebooks, or Folders? - Organizing Your Genealogy
Take charge of your genealogy clutter with one of these easy-to-maintain filing systems. Includes how-to steps for binders and folders, as well as options for organizing by surname, family, or event.

Top 5 Books on Organizing Your Family History
Tackle those piles and boxes filled with genealogy files, notes, and papers with these helpful books geared toward disorganized genealogists. Learn how to create a flexible genealogy filing system, how to store photos, CD-ROMs, and correspondence, how to set up an efficient work space, and more.

Genealogy Supplies & Forms
Start your genealogy organization project off right with these genealogy charts, forms, paper, gadgets, etc.  Many of the charts and forms are available for free download.

A Guide to Organizing Paper Genealogy Files
Wayne Hinton, author of the 32 page booklet A Guide to Organizing Paper Genealogy Files © 1997,  has now put the full text on the Internet.

Bookmark Organization
Organizing your bookmarks is crucial when you use the Internet for genealogy research.  This article explains how to keep them organized.  Or you can just use my organized Genealogy Resource Library as the bookmarks to find the information you need!

Cleaning Off Your Desktop
Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, addresses one of the biggest challenges in organizing your genealogy research - keeping the work space on your desktop clear of clutter.

Clooz
A software database for systematically organizing and storing all of the clues to your ancestry that you have been collecting over the years.

Discrepancy Charts - Organizing the Inconclusive
Michael John Neill explains how to use discrepancy charts to summarize the conflicts between different record sources and to indicate the source for each conflicting piece of data.

Finally Getting Organized Lessons
Well-known genealogy columnist Dear Myrtle offers a wonderful month-by-month series of lessons to help you organize your research.

First Aid for Your Filing System
The first in a wonderful series of "Get it Together" articles written by the "queen" of genealogy organization, Elizabeth Kelley Kirstens.

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