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True Tales of Family History Fakery Premium

History holds many tales of folks who claimed false ancestral origins. We'll tell you about six of them.

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Family Hour Premium

A peek behind the scenes of "Who Do You Think You Are?" with Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak.

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Ancestry.com Search Secrets Premium

Start Your Search 1. From Ancestry.com’s home page, click Search in the navigation bar to get to the standard search form. Clicking Show Advanced in the top right will separate the Name field into fields for first and last names and add an Exact box to each...

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Ancestry.com Web Guide Premium

Thanks to a marketing blitz on TV and the Internet, just about everyone’s heard of the subscription genealogy records service Ancestry.com. The company started as a small publisher in 1983, and as it expanded, redubbed itself MyFamily.com, with Ancestry.com as its primary product. Now it’s...

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Ways to Leave a Family History Legacy

“What do I do now?” is something I hear from readers every once in a while, as in, I’ve done all this research—now what should I do with it?What I like about this “Best of” excerpt from Sharon DeBartolo Carmack’s “How to Be a Good Ancestor” article in...

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Genealogy Insider: Name Games Premium

Have fun with your name (and learn something, too) by typing it into these online tools.

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Genealogy Insider: Prime Time Premium

Add these popular Roots Television videos to your must-see playlist.

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How to Get the Most Out of Every Genealogy Record

Waaaaaay back in 2000, Family Tree Magazine was born. To celebrate 10 years of helping genealogists trace their family trees, I’ll be sharing some of our best advice from each year of publication. Kicking things off, Marcia Yannizze Melnyk’s advice from October 2000 helps you squeeze every drop of usefulness...

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