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

out on a limb

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Remembering What Matters Most • Knowledge and stories must come before your genealogy

Behind the Scenes • FTM in SLC: RootsTech 2026

RootsTech 2026 Roundup • TOP COMPANIES TEASE INNOVATIONS IN AI, DNA AND RECORDS

SCRIBE AI: TRANSCRIBING AND TRANSLATING RECORDS

NEW PARTNERS FOR FAMILYSEARCH

DIGITIZING MEMORIES WITH ANCESTRY

Family Tree DNA: Enhanced Tests

VIVID-PIX LAUNCHES NEW FEATURES, PARTNERSHIP

Getting Smart with AI

Soul Searching

The Course of Human Events • Learn about the experiences of your ancestors who lived through the American Revolution — whether or not they served in the military.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERNENCE

Four Score and 170 Years Ago • Celebrate America’s 250th birthday at home—or at one of these special events on the eastern seaboard.

Happy Birthday, America! • Top Organizations Celebrate History—and Our Ancestors Who Made It

Rooted in Revolution

RESEARCH GUIDE FLORIDA

TIMELINE

RESEARCH GUIDE MISSOURI

TIMELINE

Find Your U.S. Ancestors

LOYAL, ROYAL SUBJECTS • Did your ancestor stay loyal to the Crown during the Revolution? This guide will show you how to research Loyalists who stood on the “other” side of American independence.

At Your Service • Study the lives of indentured servants who traded their labor (and maybe freedom) for passage to the New World.

Stars and Stripes Forever • Hurrah for the flag of the free—and these 75 Best Websites for US genealogy research.

Hair Apparent • A woman and her hair-filled brooch present a 19th-century dilemma

Confirming Relationships

Searching Newspaper Databases at Elephind • Elephind <www.elephind.com> was originally launched in 2012 as a multisite search engine for newspapers. At the site’s peak, users could search more than 3 million newspapers, allowing them to efficiently comb through the holdings of several libraries, universities and other institutions at once. Taken offline in 2023 due to budgetary concerns, the site now has new life with a different search model and other new tech—plus 47 million pages in its scope as of this writing. Here’s how to use “Elephind 2.0” to find your ancestors in them.

Preserving Diplomas and Certificates

treetips NOW WHAT?

Deciding What Heirlooms to Keep

5 Steps for Writing an Heirloom History