Family Tree

Family Tree Magazine will help point the way toward the best research tools and practices to trace your family's history. Each issue includes tips on locating, collecting, and preserving photos, letters, diaries, church and government records, and other documentation, plus fun articles about creating scrapbooks, organizing family reunions, and vacation ideas that combine history with leisure!

out on a limb

TREE TALK • Readers’ favorite family finds

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everything’s relative

Your Genealogy Summer • Lisa Louise Cooke shares her favorite family history books, tips, tools and hot spots.

Mending Fences

Putting Down Roots • A Maryland transplant discovers deep roots in his new home state.

YOUR TURN

Preserve Vintage Vacation Souvenirs

branching out

OPEN CASES • When someone dies alone, county coroners must track down next of kin to notify—and they’re increasingly asking genealogists for help. See how three determined researchers cracked a tough family-finding case.

8 Tips to Find Living People

GOING EAST • Our expert shares six common obstacles for Eastern European genealogy—and how to overcome them.

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Eastern European Genealogy Websites

FAST FACTS

MAINE

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Blueberry Hills

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FAST FACTS

NEW MEXICO

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Road to the Past

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TOP SECRETS • Professional genealogists share their 12 top tips for staying organized, catching every clue, and making the most of your research minutes.

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SAMPLE GENEALOGY WORKFLOW

OFF THE GRID • Some of the best genealogy sources won’t be found online. You can make these 38 exciting family history discoveries only in person.

Finding Connections • Professional genealogist John Vanek’s successful search for his sperm-donor father—and the men’s thoughtful navigation through their new relationship—offer inspiration to birth family searchers.

7 Tips for Birth-Parent Searchers

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NOW WHAT?

Dog License

Genetic Genealogy Catches a Killer

REUNITING BIRTH FAMILIES WITH DNA

National Trust Shares Success Stories

LIVING DNA BUILDS FAMILY NETWORKS

FINDMYPAST ACQUIRES TWILE

Half Mom, Half Dad

Back Up Your Pics to Google Photos

“I got my DNA results. I’m 53% French... NOW WHAT?”

Six Tools to Do More with Your DNA

Access Genealogy

the rest is history