Finding Your American Patriot

A special series to help you find YOUR story in the 250 year history of the United States of America

The Organized Genealogist System, Patriot Edition:
A Notebook Designed Especially for Ancestor Research

You have online trees. You have goals. What you're missing is a system for everything in between: the leads you're chasing, the sources you've checked, and the questions that multiply when you find new facts.

The Organized Genealogist System is a research notebook built for the way genealogy actually works. The real version, full of sticky notes, bookmarks, and lost threads where one discovery opens four new questions, and you're juggling multiple family lines at once. Flexible enough to follow the rabbit holes. Structured enough to find your way back out.

This Patriot Edition is designed to coordinate with the other Finding Your Revolutionary War Ancestor books, but it is useful for any type of ancestry research. You can even use multiple notebooks to organize your research by family line.

Finding Your Revolutionary War Ancestor:
A Step-by-Step Guide

You know the family story: an ancestor served in the Revolutionary War. But can you prove it?

Common names, sparse records, and decades between service and documentation create a research minefield.

This systematic guide teaches you to navigate pension files, state archives, and lineage society databases without making costly errors. Learn to build documented chains of evidence, test identity using correlation methods, and apply professional genealogical standards. Includes checklists, real examples, and step-by-step instructions that work whether you're pursuing lineage society membership or personal verification.

Finding Your Revolutionary War Ancestor:
Companion Workbook

Stop losing track of your Revolutionary War research. This comprehensive workbook provides structure for documenting your lineage from yourself back to your patriot ancestor.

This workbook features a place for you to document your process with generational lineage pages, candidate identification worksheets, identity correlation matrices to prevent matching errors, Revolutionary War service findings, source tracking with password storage, and additional useful resources for reference.

It works alongside Finding Your Revolutionary War Ancestor to keep you organized and methodical. Whether pursuing lineage society membership or personal verification, this workbook ensures nothing falls through the cracks and becomes the master file for all of your hard work.