Figuring out the details in our family trees can be complicated. This worksheet will help you track your research about an ancestor and sort out the messy bits that require scratch paper, untangling, notes, or more freeform thinking than what fits in a typical family tree with clear cut facts and answers.

It’s got features like
• Places to fill in key details about your ancestor’s life
• A checklist of records to search (including blank slots to add unique sources!)
• Ample note taking space
• A blank timeline to help put all the puzzle pieces together.

Keeping these sheets for multiple ancestors in a project is helpful for scratch paper and quick cross-referencing, because a work in progress often doesn’t fit neatly into a family tree. (This is invaluable when you’re working in the FAN Club—researching friends, associates, and neighbors to try to find more info about your ancestor!) They’re also great for those of us who bounce back and forth between different branches of the tree, because, you know, genealogists never get distracted from one research objective, and only work on one thing at a time…

It will help you take your Work To Do through Work In Progress to Completed Work.