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!

Family Tree • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER2024/VOLUME25, ISSUE 5

out on a limb

Letters to the Editor

5 QUESTIONS with: Steve Little - AI Program Director, NGS

100,000 Digital Books • LEADING WEBSITE, CANADIAN ARCHIVE TO PRESERVE PUBLICATIONS

NEW AND IMPROVED: GENEALOGY SOFTWARE

DIGITIZED RECORDS ROUNDUP

Guidelines for AI and Genealogy

MYHERITAGE LAUNCHES NEW SUB

Heirloom Hunting

Defying the Odds • One woman finds records of her family when she expected none.

Family Inheritance • These five tasks will help you turn the boxes of materials you inherited from family into an organized archive.

READY SET DIGITIZE! • Genealogists, start your engines! Avoid overwhelm while digitizing photos and records with this guide.

SCANNER LEADERBOARD

MEMENTO MORI • These death-related heirlooms may seem macabre by modern standards. But they hold details that are valuable to modern genealogists.

BEYOND THE GRAVE (and Death Certificate)

DELAWARE

ILLINOIS

Find Your U.S. Ancestors

Treasure the Register • Tap into valuable Standesamtregistern—German civil vital records almost as old as Germany itself.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE • This October, celebrate Family History Month your own way! These resources will help, whatever path your month takes.

treetips

Flash Back • Handwritten details on the back of a photo suggest an unexpectedly complex immigration story.

Cemetery Records

Finding Newspapers at Chronicling America • The free Chronicling America <www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america> should be your first online destination for old US newspapers. The project received a new interface in 2024 (still in beta, as of this writing) that integrates it better into the Library of Congress’ trove of resources. To date, Chronicling America has 22 million digitized pages from more than 4,000 newspaper titles across the United States.

Saving School Supplies and Writing Utensils

treetips NOW WHAT?

Tools for Keeping in Touch with Relatives

DNA Matches Without a Family Tree

Project Management Worksheet • Break big genealogy goals down into manageable tasks.

OBITUARIES

SAMPLE DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE OBITUARY SEARCH PROCESS

5 Tips to Find Obits Online

DETAILS IN OBITUARIES