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 • JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 / VOLUME 22, ISSUE 1

out on a limb

TREE TALK • We asked about unexpected places you’ve made genealogy finds. Here’s how you responded.

everything’srelative

NARA Volunteers Hit 1M Records

French Database Filae Grows

LOC LAUNCHES NEWSPAPER IMAGE SEARCH TOOL

BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE NEARS COMPLETION

Genealogy Resolutions

Arcane Romaine

Saving Paper Artwork

Running Toward Home • A century-old tragedy brings one “black sheep” back into the fold.

GET ORGANIZED

branchingout

free & easy • Though a subscription website, Ancestry.com offers several great features even for free users. Here are seven of our favorites.

Helping Hand • Share your genealogy skills using these tips for researching someone else’s family tree.

Five-Step Research Plan Worksheet

STATE GUIDE • KENTUCKY

timeline

TOOLKIT

RESEARCH GUIDE • PUERTO RICO

timeline

TOOLKIT

Prussian BLUES • Don’t let the lack of “Prussia” on modern maps get you down. These tips will help you find your ancestors who lived in the former kingdom.

Prussian Provinces

SECURITY MEASURES • Cash in on the genealogical benefits of your relatives’ Social Security documents.

Show Me the Money

How to Decode a Social Security Card

The Case of the Missing Ancestors • Nancy Drew has inspired generations of mystery-solvers. These eight sleuthing skills from her adventures will help you find your ancestors.

Nancy Drew Today

treetips

In the Navy • Clothing and uniform clues suggest a life story. But are they enough to tell this couple’s tale?

NOW WHAT?

Creating a Family Tree at WikiTree • WikiTree is an all-free website for building your family tree. The purpose of WikiTree is right in its name: It's a wiki, and it's a tree. A wiki is a crowdsourced collaborative place to gather information. And the information being gathered on this wiki is the world's family tree. Since 2008, hundreds of thousands of users from around the world have contributed information to nearly 25 million tree profiles.

Census Aids

Convincing Relatives to Test

the rest is history

ORGANIZING GENEALOGY • DREW SMITH AND THE EDITORS OF FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE

HOW TO NAME YOUR FILES

ORGANIZING YOUR WORKSPACE

ORGANIZING YOUR RESEARCH PROCESS

ORGANIZING YOUR GOALS

TIPS FOR ORGANIZING YOUR RESEARCH

ORGANIZATION TOOLS