Toolkit

Use these worksheets and checklists to organise your Indigenous family history research.

Research plan – this worksheet will help you to think through what you want to do and how to do it

Word 951 KB

Sources at home – a checklist that will help you to find information at your own home and the homes of family members

Word 951 KB

Family member information – a worksheet to help you gather and record information about any person in your family tree

Word 951 KB

Biographical outline – a worksheet to help you organise information about a person in your family tree as a timeline

Word 949 KB

Family tree – two types of family tree that you can enlarge and print out.

PDF 343 KB

Records checklist – a checklist to help you plan your research and think about the many places where you might find information

Word 949 KB

Contacts log – a worksheet for keeping track of who you have asked for information

Word 949 KB

Research log – a worksheet for keeping track of what you are doing

Word 949 KB

Planning a visit checklist – a checklist that will help you plan a physical visit to an organisation like an archives or AIATSIS

Word 950 KB

›Except for the Family trees, all of the worksheets and checklists are available in Word and PDF. You can change the Word versions to suit your own needs.

You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to use the PDFs.