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Family Tree

Dec 01 2018
Magazine

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


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Frequency: Every other month Pages: 76 Publisher: Yankee Publishing Inc. Edition: Dec 01 2018

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: November 12, 2018

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OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

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


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