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

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TREE TALK • We asked about your most interesting immigration stories. Here’s how you responded.

Family Business • A Ford factory tour employee discovers his great-grandfather worked there, too — before Ford even made cars.

FamilySearch Completes Microfilm Digitization

FAMILY TREE DNA CHROMOSOME PAINTING

NOW AVAILABLE: FREEDMEN’S BUREAU RECORDS

Key New UK Collections at Findmypast

MAJOR GENEALOGY EVENTS OF 2022

On the Road Again

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First Generation • Make these three kinds of records your first stop when researching immigrant ancestors.

SITES FOR SETTING SAIL

WAVES OF IMMIGRATION

FINDING A PLACE OF ORIGIN

ON HER MAJESTY’S CENSUS SERVICE • Dive into the soon-to-be-released 1921 census of England and Wales with this guide.

SCOTTISH Census Records

TIPS FOR SEARCHING CENSUS RECORDS

IRISH Census Records

LOST IN THE WOODS • Stay on course with these 7 tips for fact-checking information you find in online family trees.

Tree Tall Tales

Taking a Hint

FLORIDA

TIMELINE

TOOLKIT

MISSOURI

TIMELINE

TOOLKIT

ANCESTORS at WORK • DISCOVER YOUR ANCESTOR’S OCCUPATION USING THESE 12 SOURCES.

ODD JOBS

Being of Sound Mind… • Create a “genealogy will” that outlines for your heirs what you’d like for your research after you’ve passed on.

AT A GLANCE: Physical and Digital Genealogy Assets

A Genealogical Codicil to the Last Will and Testament of

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Occupational Records

Picture Day • Clothing clues and good ole-fashioned research help date this school class photo.

Tracing Borders with the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Saving Handmade Garments

NOW WHAT?

Professional Research Services

Using Ethnicity Estimates

Immigrant Ancestor Worksheet • Track known information about the immigrants in your family.

ENGLISH GENEALOGY

Historical Counties of England, c. 1851

TIMELINE OF ENGLISH HISTORY

TIPS FOR ENGLISH RESEARCH

RECORDS QUICK GUIDE

RESOURCES