![]() The next day I was sent over a dozen old photos of ancestors, most of which I had never seen pictures of before.Īs my research has continued, I have already found several new sources that I will add to my binder. I also came across the Buffum Family Association group (my husband’s great-grandmother was a Buffum) and asked if anyone had information about our particular line. I received a few items by simply asking our Reynolds Family Facebook group. I love how quickly I was able to scan stacks of documents while still having high resolutions for photos.įacebook also proved quite helpful in obtaining records and photos. My in-laws have a cardboard box of various family records that I was able to borrow and scan into my computer using an Epson WorkForce Scanner. I don’t personally have any original documents for this line of the family, but I was able to obtain quite a few copies just from asking relatives. Before highlighting, I made sure I let the ink dry for at least 30 minutes or else the ink smeared. This is especially helpful in census records or city directories that contain many names. I wanted to be able to easily find the individual’s name in each document, so I highlighted the corresponding line in the document with a yellow highlighter. Either leave me a comment below or come share on my facebook page. I’d love to hear if any of you decide to put together your own binders and what changes you make to adapt them to your own needs. Also, most never moved from the town so a personalized map printout would have been exactly the same for each individual. For most of these individuals I only had their birth, marriage, and death info, which is easily visible on their familysearch page. The other difference is that I didn’t include individual timelines or maps. I only had a couple photos from this family line, so any photos were instead filed under the individual’s tab. You’ll notice that I didn’t include a photos section this time. Then I did the same for each of the children, all within that same tabbed section. I then put a printout of the oldest child’s familysearch page followed by their records, just like I had done for the parents. The first page of that section is a family group sheet. So after each set of parents, I put a tab for their children and labeled it “children of (#) & (#)”. After struggling with whether to group them under the father’s tab or the mother’s tab I instead decided they needed their own section. Since I didn’t have much info about these ancestors, I decided to also include their children. The reason I chose to print them from FTM is so that the source info would print on the same page, reducing the number of pages printed by half. For most, that consisted of their baptism, marriage, and death record. I then used Family Tree Maker (FTM) to print the documents I had for that individual. The first page of each person tab has a printout of their familysearch page so you can easily see their vital facts, spouses, children, parents, and siblings. See this post to see how to print number pedigree charts from or how to create your own.Įach of the numbered tabs corresponds to the number of an individual found on the first 4-generation pedigree chart. I then printed off additional pedigree charts starting with #8-15 so that my mom could reference them while doing research. My first tab has a numbered 4-generation pedigree chart starting with my mom’s grandmother, Anna Grosso. ![]() I used the same materials as before (see the list here), except I purchased 3 sets of these tabbed dividers instead of 2 for a total of 24 tabs. My mom spent last summer photographing church records in a small town in Italy (you can read more about that process in this post), so I wanted to organize her family’s records for her. ![]() Last year I made this family history binder as a Christmas gift for my father-in-law, so I decided that this year I would make one for my side of the family.
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