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 • MAY/JUNE 2022/VOLUME 23, ISSUE 3

out on a limb

TREE TALK • We asked what you’re hoping to find in the 1950 US census. Here’s how you responded.

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!

Tales of the Dead • A New Englander shares stories from cemeteries on TikTok

Military Yearbooks Wanted

PROFILE: THE VIRTUAL GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION

RECLAIM THE RECORDS PUBLISHES N.J. BIRTH INDEXES

Find a Grave Updates Policies

Summer of Love

branchingout

THE GREAT COMET OF 1950 • It’s the bee’s knees, daddy-O! The 1950 US census has arrived, bringing good genealogical tidings. Here’s what you’ll find in it.

Nothing But the Truth • Separate truth from fiction in family stories with the tips in these three case studies.

one tree to rule them all • Online trees are useful, but not an ideal place to store your research. Here’s the case for building one primary, offline “master” family tree that syncs with online trees as necessary.

ARKANSAS

TIMELINE

TOOLKIT

MICHIGAN

TIMELINE

TOOLKIT

Find Your U.S. Ancestors

CASE CLOSED • Using DNA databases along with traditional genealogical research, investigators are identifying criminals in decades-old cases. Here’s how they do it—and what it means for test takers.

IGG at a GLANCE

Let Ring Freedom • Records of the influential Freedmen’s Bureau are more accessible now than ever before. Learn what you can uncover in them.

Post-Civil War Timeline

treetips

Directories

At a Glance: City Directories

Viva Italia • A photo hints at an immigrant woman’s homecoming

Finding Resources with ArchiveGrid • ArchiveGrid <researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid> is a free online catalog of 7 million archival materials from more than 1,400 repositories around the world. Among its listings are diaries, correspondence, business records, research notes, travel narratives, voters’ lists, local censuses, militia records, membership lists, photographs, maps, and all sorts of genealogically rich records. These one-of-a-kind originals may be buried somewhere in an archive that you've never heard of or visited, and ArchiveGrid will help you find them.

Saving Books and Magazines

NOW WHAT?

Vital Record Resources

Testing Children

GET ORGANIZED

LAND RECORDS

DECIPHERING AN OLD DEED

LAND RECORDS GLOSSARY

PUBLIC LANDS

US TERRITORIAL ACQUISITIONS

TIMELINE OF US EXPANSION AND SETTLEMENT

KEY TYPES OF LAND RECORDS

Citing Land Records