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

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!

everything’s relative

A New Year of Genealogy

Pound for Pound

Going Home • An old diary comes alive when a genealogist visits his family’s 200-year-old homestead.

Saving Greeting Cards

WRITE THIS • Share a family story that your elders told you, and that you hope to pass on to the next generation.

branching out

Getting to the Roots • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., host of the hit genealogy show “Finding Your Roots,” takes us behind the scenes for a sneak peek at the upcoming season.

Who You’ll See on Season 5

History-Fan Faves on PBS

SEEDLINGS: Future genealogists

GO for the GOAL • Stay on task with a genealogy resolution a month for 2019. We’ve got your game plan with simple, customizable steps.

2019 GOALS AT A GLANCE

FAST FACTS

TEXAS

timeline

STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

FAST FACTS

RHODE ISLAND

timeline

STATE HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

TOOLKIT

Robert Smalls’ Story

Tales Untold • Built over the site where ships arrived with thousands of chained Africans, Charleston’s new museum will tell the stories of people and places shaped by the international slave trade.

Josephine Pritchard’s Story

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5 Tips to Discover Your Ancestor’s Story

BLASTS from the PAST • Take a peek inside seven of history’s coolest time capsules, then create your own family time capsule in five easy steps.

CREATE A FAMILY TIME CAPSULE IN 5 STEPS • Creating a time capsule is a fun project for a milestone event like a family reunion, getting married, buying a house—or anytime. Follow these steps to help your time capsule blast off into the future and survive re-entry with success.

FAMILY TIME CAPSULE CONTENTS

Missing Out • When lost, burned or otherwise nonexistent records leave gaps in your family tree, fill in the blanks with these six expert tricks.

Case Study: Reconstruct the Community

Sweet 16

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tree tips

NOW WHAT?

Railroad Maps

WHAT’S NEW

Find the Ancestry Record Collections You Need

Family Tree Chart Printing Services

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Analyzing DNA Matches Using Mirror Trees

the rest is history

GENETIC GENEALOGY CHEAT SHEET

TYPES OF DNA TESTS

DECODING DNA TEST RESULTS

GENEALOGY Q&A

DNA Testing and your privacy

Genetic Genealogy Timeline

GENETIC GENEALOGY TESTING COMPANIES*

RESOURCES