Research Plan Template
Research Plan Template
What is your order of operations when you do family history research? Where do you start? How do you know where to search, and what to do next? How do you know what records are even available and relevant to your search? How do you stay on task when there can be new juicy details in every record you find?
With a research plan!
I developed this template for myself to solve all of the above problems and now you can use it too!
I love a good research plan because it keeps me on task. It gives me an itemized list of sources so I can logically move from one search to the next without having to figure out what to do next after every single step. It gives me logical breaks in the research when I need to stop working for the day, and then I know where to pick back up the next day, or on the weekend when I have time. It also helps me to make sure I don’t miss any important sources where my information might be hiding.