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
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!
everything’s relative
Hark the Heritage • Take time this month to share your family’s holiday traditions.
Cooking the Books
Chance Discoveries • While digitizing records of other people’s ancestors, genealogy volunteers stumble across their own.
YOUR TURN
Preserving Holiday Heirlooms
branchingout
CYBER STATES • Discover your American ancestors in cyberspace! Search these 75 best websites—all of them free—for genealogy in US states.
9 SEARCH TIPS for Hard-to-Search Genealogy Websites
TAKING the HIGH ROAD • Whether they came from the Highlands or the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, your Scottish ancestors left behind a trail of civil registration records in their home country.
FAST FACTS
ALABAMA
timeline
STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT
TOOLKIT
FAST FACTS
OREGON
timeline
STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT
TOOLKIT
IN GOOD TIME • Are you always running out of research minutes? Get more genealogy done in less time with these 12 time-saving tips.
Work SMARTer, Not Harder
do the write thing • Let your research live beyond you! Put it all together with these tips for writing your family history, plus a project organizing worksheet you’ll refer to again and again.
WORKSHEET • Organize Your Family History Writing Project
Family History Writing Project Logistics
The Write Time
THE GREAT UNKNOWNS • Search beyond basic records with these six little-known sources to discover your immigrant ancestors’ hometowns and life details.
treetips
NOW WHAT?
Date with Destiny • The key to this family’s identity starts with estimating when the photo was taken.
WHAT’S NEW
Photograph an Heirloom
International Archives
New York Passenger Search • Between 1820 and 1920, nearly 80 percent of US immigrant arrivals landed at New York ports. Now the full run of New York passenger and customs lists, 1820 to 1957, is free to search on the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation website .
Why Go Y?
the rest is history