Family History Travel Planner

Turn the places in your family history into a journey.

Have you ever wanted to walk down the street where your family lived, visit the church where they married, explore the cemetery where they are buried, or spend time researching in a local archive?

The Family History Travel Planner has been designed specifically for family historians who want to turn those places on the family tree into a real journey.

Start long before you travel by collecting the places connected with your families and building your travel wish list. Then, when a trip begins to take shape, use the planner pages to bring together your family history plans and all the practical details you need while you're away.

From wish list to travel plan

Keep track of the places you'd like to visit, the family connections that take you there and what you'd like to see or do.

Plan visits to archives, libraries and other repositories, as well as churches, cemeteries, museums, historic properties, streets and other places connected with your family history.

There are also dedicated pages for the things that are easily forgotten when planning a trip: people you'd like to meet, books to look for and those important photographs you don't want to come home without.

Plan the practical side too

A successful family history trip still needs all the usual travel planning.

Keep your accommodation and travel arrangements alongside your family history plans, and use the yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily planner pages to see how everything fits together.

There's even a packing checklist designed with the family historian in mind, with space for the research material and equipment you'll want to take with you.

Several planner layouts are included, with lined and unlined options and both Sunday and Monday week starts.

What's included

Family history planning

• Travel Wish List
• People to Meet
• Repository Planner
• Books to Buy
• Photos to Take
• Places to Visit Planner

Trip planning

• Yearly Planner
• Quarterly Planner
• Monthly Planner
• Weekly Planner
• Daily Planner
• Accommodation Planner
• Packing Checklist

Plus

• Travel Planner Guidance
• Optional printable Family History Travel cover
• A choice of planner layouts
• A4 and US Letter versions

Print only what you need

Every family history journey is different. You might be planning a weekend visiting places close to home, a week researching in one city, or a much longer overseas trip.

Rather than giving you a planner you have to use from beginning to end, the Family History Travel Planner is supplied as individual printable pages.

The planner pages are supplied in either A4 or US Letter sizes, ready to print at home or through your preferred print service.

Choose the pages that suit your trip and print as many copies as you need. Then use them again when your next family history journey begins.

Created by a family historian, for family historians

I developed this planner from my own experience of travelling for family history research: visiting repositories, exploring places connected with my family and managing all the practical details that go around the research.

The pages are designed to help you keep those details together, so you can spend more time enjoying the places that are part of your family's story.

Map your journey

Adding your important locations to a map can help you see what is close together and make more realistic decisions about your itinerary.

If you'd like help creating your own Google map, Mapping Our Stories: Creating a Google Map is also available from Memories in Time and takes you through the process step by step.

Want the complete set? The Family History Travel Bundle combines the Family History Travel Planner with Mapping Our Stories, including the custom map icons, plus additional bonus Planning and Travel Journal pages.

Discover the places that are part of your family's story.