Printable charts, research checklists, and templates to support your family history research. Start with the free Six-Generation Family Tree.
Get Free Family Tree →Print-ready chart for 62 ancestors — the essential first tool
A beautifully designed, print-ready PDF with space for 62 ancestors across six full generations — from you all the way back to your great-great-great-grandparen…
View Resource →Step-by-step guide to filling out your first pedigree chart
A clear, practical guide that walks you through every field on a standard family tree chart — what goes where, what format to use for dates and places, how to h…
View Resource →Record everything you observe — headstones, plot numbers, photographs
A structured field form for recording detailed information during cemetery visits. Captures headstone inscriptions, plot numbers, section and row information, p…
View Resource →Reference dates for vital records availability by state and region
A comprehensive reference chart showing when vital records — births, marriages, and deaths — became mandatory in each U.S. state. Knowing these dates tells you …
View Resource →Log every marriage index search — county by county, record by record
A structured form for recording marriage index searches across multiple counties and record collections. Captures the index searched, date range covered, names …
View Resource →Track every census search for every family member — decade by decade
A systematic form for tracking census searches across all available decades for each family. Captures the census year, location searched, head of household foun…
View Resource →A dual-lineage chart for adoptees tracing both biological and adoptive families
A specially designed pedigree chart for adoptees researching dual family lines — biological and adoptive. The chart provides separate branches for each lineage …
View Resource →Instantly identify how any two relatives are connected
A reference chart that maps out relationship labels for every combination of common ancestors and generational distance. Whether it's a second cousin twice remo…
View Resource →A simplified, age-appropriate chart for children tracing their family
A colorful, simplified family tree chart designed for children and young beginners. Organized around the child at the center, it includes generous space for nam…
View Resource →Record the key life events for every ancestor in one organized document
A comprehensive life event tracking form that captures the major milestones for each ancestor: birth, baptism, confirmation, marriage(s), military service, immi…
View Resource →Organize your military research — service records, pension files, draft registrations
A structured tracking form for military genealogy research. Captures the ancestor's service branch, years of service, conflict or war, record types searched (pe…
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