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

Falling for Family History • Lisa Louise Cooke shares her favorite genealogy books, tips, tools and hot spots.

Six Feet Under

Leave No Trace • DNA unravels a grandfather’s shifting identities.

What special foods do you recall from family gatherings of your youth? • How did you like them? Who prepared them?

Save Old Stamps

branching out

Local Experts • On the free Compgen.de website, local genealogists serve up a wealth of German records and research know-how. We’ll show you around the site.

Navigating Compgen.de

THE RACE IS ON! • Go behind the scenes of a thrilling genealogy show that sends competitors racing across the country to discover unknown, long-lost family.

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Keeping Up with the Competitors

FAST FACTS

STATE GUIDE VIRGINIA

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STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

FAST FACTS

STATE GUIDE NEVADA

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STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

THROUGH the MAZE • Wildly varying access rules and availability make a tangled maze of your ancestors’ state-level vital records. Let us guide you through.

Fantastic Five

TAKE FIVE • Discover what’s notable and new about the top five DNA testing services—and how you can test with several of them for the price of one.

MIX AND MATCH

BREAK IT DOWN

PICTURE PUZZLES • Find out how clues in antique-store photo finds, plus research in old records, add up to family stories.

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Marriage Bond

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the rest is history