Many archives, genealogy organizations, and ancestry databases offer tools and guides to get started with your research. Below are select resources to explore.
Who Do You Think You Are? The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History by 
Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series by Genealogical research across family branches can get unwieldy. This section highlights helpful resources to set yourself up to organization information from the start of your project.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research.
Zotero allows you to attach digital objects like PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies, even from within your preferred word processor.
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Word processor plugins for Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and LibreOffice come bundled with the Zotero app and will be installed automatically for each installed word processor when you first start Zotero.
Library Lookup for Tulane
The Library Lookup option lets you locate items in an online library catalog so you can track down a physical or online full-text copy of the resource. You can enable Zotero's Library Lookup feature. Select or type in a resolver from the Advanced pane of the Zotero preferences. Tulane University Libraries OpenURL resolver is https://library.search.tulane.edu/openurl/01TUL_INST/01TUL_INST:Tulane
