It can take hours to research family history and it is easy to become inundated with stuff – paper records, recordings, photographs, notes, artifacts, and more information than one would imagine could ever exist. The usefulness of the collection is in the organization – using computers, archival boxes, files, and forms to help you put your hands on what you need when you need it. Also included, in this book, are instructions on the best ways to store and preserve one–of–a–kind family relics.

Fifth in the National Genealogical Society's Guide series, The Organized Family Historian will follow the same user–friendly format that makes the other books helpful at any level of genealogical experience. The NGS offers readers 100 years of research and experience.