Hello Listers, Perhaps SKS could guide help or supply me with some templates for filing all the research data we tend to gather please? :-) What I would like to do and have are some templates made in Excel preferably that I can use when interviewing folk over the telephone, online, at the Latter Day saints family history centre and for gathering and sorting possible connections etc for the future. I am a relative rookie but have been gathering and sharing lots of transcription data and am always gathering info from the LDS, OPR, Genesreunited and Ancestry type sources but get lost in the data when its not stored properly so I can file or sort it later.. :-( Any help, templates or guidance greatly appreciated:-) Cheers Jim Patterson Researching Pat(t)erson, Welsh, Jamieson, Murray, Macdougall, Mc Cartney, Robertson, Barton, Heughan, Mc Naught , Kay, McClure, Adams, Allan, and Shepherd in Scotland and SW Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway mainly:-)