These darker beige tabs are also often labeled for descendancy charts, research planners, to do lists, and other reports. The beige tabs do not expand as much as the buff tabs which are used for each family. The beige ones are used to file finding aids to information which comprise the first section. For example, some people put research aids such as maps, gazetteers, and county histories in the front.

These beige tabs can also be used in the back of the buff colored Family Group Record tabs to file locality of surname materials until the notebook becomes full. Then they can be moved to their own notebook where they are used to file surname family printouts that cover more than one MRIN, references to publications searched for a surname, and also locality tabs to file searches done in a place for multiple surnames and record groups.

It is, therefore, easy to moved these customized tabs to a new binder without much effort involved. In fact many researchers have several surname and locality tabs to refer to when another clue takes them back to a previous search. For example, when it is discovered that the surname could be spelled another way, and the researcher wants to determine if this other surname spelling was searched the researcher can look back at the Research Planner, or copies of documents made.

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