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

family tree SHOP • Genealogy books, how-to videos and online classes

everything’s relative

Aussie Adventures • Lisa Louise Cooke shares her favorite family history books, tips, tools and hot spots.

If the Shoe Fits

War Stories • A genealogist discovers how historic events prompted her ancestors’ migrations.

What have you learned about how your parents and other couples in your family tree met?

Saving Sports Memorabilia

branching out

Getting Googly-Eyed • You’ll go gaga for this year’s 101 Best Websites for Genealogy.

10 Tips to Google for Ancestors

HOW TO BE A GENEALOGY NINJA • Develop ninja-like research skills with these five family history challenges.

A Genealogy Ninja’s Training Checklist

FAST FACTS

STATE GUIDE ALASKA

timeline

STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

FAST FACTS

STATE GUIDE INDIANA

timeline

STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

history mysteries • Genealogy meets danger in author Steve Robinson’s book series starring a pro researcher who keeps getting tangled up in age-old mysteries.

More Genealogical Whodunits

PRIVACY PLEASE • Have the millions of DNA test-takers made a grave mistake when it comes to their personal information? Our legal expert answers 19 crucial questions about DNA testing and your privacy.

5 Privacy Musts for DNA Testers

Where to Read DNA Websites’ Terms of Service

OVER THE BORDERLINE • Your immigrant ancestors may have arrived over the Canadian or Mexican border—even crossing multiple times. Here’s how to trace them.

TIMELINE

Maps and Migration Resources

Clues in Border-Crossing Records

tree tips

PHOTO DETECTIVE

WHAT’S NEW

HOW TO

ROUNDUP 5 Tools to Find Your Family’s Tombstones

FamilySearch Catalog

DNA Q&A

the rest is history • Having a deep understanding of your own personal history is a wonderful way to contextualize the present and look forward to the future. ... It makes me make more sense. This is who I've become and this is how I'm living my life, because this is where I came from.