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90-60 Census Workbook
The 90-60 Census Workbook makes the mining of the name-deprived U.S. decennial censuses (1790 – 1860) not only feasible but at last fruitful. Tapping the Google Sheets environment, you can gather, organize, analyze, and share your findings. Pinpoint the most likely ancestors, identify their major family life changes, and have confidence in your research. Purchasers may make as many copies as needed for their personal use. This is a substantially enhanced adaptation of the Early Federal Census Worksheet and can reformat EFCW data.
Early Federal Census Worksheet
Take the pain out of attempting to extract meaning from the early federal censuses from 1790 to 1860. Designed for Microsoft Excel’s desktop software, you can download this simple-to-use tool and put hundreds of census entries in a single sheet or make as many copies as you need for your own personal use, at no additional cost.
Research Plans
Truly reliable research requires a committed focus on getting the right answer to a critical question—not the expedient one. And should our conclusion ever be challenged, we need to demonstrate how we came to it. A research plan creates that focus, defining the question, creating a plan to answer it, and documenting the path to the conclusion. Designed in Microsoft Word, a blank Research Plan can be saved as a document template in Microsoft Word or simply copied as a new document for each research question you pursue.
Beyond Kin Project Starter GEDCOM
This small GEDCOM serves as a starter project template for researchers working on the Beyond Kin Project—a method for documenting people who are related to one another by something other than traditional genetic or legal kinship. It is especially useful for the documentation of enslaved populations.
