When planning research in a new place, many of us have consulted the FamilySearch Research Wiki, and have collected books which cover states or regions where we find our ancestors and their friends, associates and neighbors.  On this blog   we've discussed creating a checklist  to ensure that we don't overlook useful resources to answer our research questions. Reusable locality research guide is a map to success Recently, advice to create our own locality research guides seem to be popping up everywhere, which takes the checklist concept to a whole new level. The recent   National Genealogical Society Magazine , had "Creating and Using Locality Guides as Genealogy Tools" by Jan Joyce. The article itself is available to NGS Members or from the magazine itself, but fortunately her case study and examples are available  here  for everyone. Holmes County, Indiana is shown but the principles are the same for every locality.  Challenge Accepted! Counties surrounding Decatur