On one of my Laura listservs it was pointed out (I’m sorry I don’t remember by whom) that there was an article about disasters that you might find turn up in geneaology in the May 2008 issue of “Family Tree Magazine”. Among other things it covers the grasshopper plagues that drove the Ingalls family out of Minnesota and into Iowa for a short time [so it wasn't all bad 
]. I finally worked down to it in my filling pile and I wanted to point out a few things that I thought might be of interest that they offer free on their webpage.
Family Relationship Chart (who’s a second cousin and who’s a first once removed?)
Be sure to follow their link to an online calculator which is slick, although the static chart they show explains it more clearly.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhat/How+Are+We+Related.aspx
Free Forms
They really have some nice ones here. Besides the normal charts they have things like blank census forms to copy your information into, tombstone recorders, and a form to record where family heirlooms came from.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html
They also list a soundex-code generator, but it seems to be a broken link. I’ll have to check on it again later at:
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/soundex
Tags: Family Tree Forms, Genealogy
