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For immediate release: June 5, 2025
It is our pleasure to release our new 101 Best Websites for Genealogy list, updated and revised for 2025. With more and more genealogy records and tools coming online every day, this annual list highlights the best resources for genealogy enthusiasts to add to their toolkit. This year’s list includes more than 10 websites that are either brand-new or returning to the list after an absence. These include sites for discovering records, researching photos, preserving family heirlooms and much, much more.
This year’s list includes websites of all sizes, from massive subscription websites like Ancestry and MyHeritage, to lesser-known sites powered by volunteers. Readers will encounter websites that make long-lost records accessible again, use AI technology to make it easier to find and extract
information, offer expert advice and news, and provide tools for sharing research and building family trees. As always, many of this year’s honorees are completely free to use, or offer select free resources.
The 101 Best Genealogy Websites list is compiled by founding Family Tree Magazine editor David A. Fryxell. It contains a wide variety of websites so that any family historian can find a resource for their own genealogy research. The websites are grouped into categories for easy browsing, and
websites that require payment to use are indicated with a dollar sign ($).
You can find the new, updated 101 Best list on our website by visiting https://familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/ The list will appear in the July/August 2025 issue of Family Tree Magazine,
which has shipped to magazine subscribers and will be available on newsstands in late June.
Press Contact: Katharine Andrew, Digital Editor
(KatharineA@Yankeepub.com)
About Family Tree Magazine
Family Tree Magazine is a bimonthly genealogy magazine published by Yankee Publishing, Inc., that has been providing instructional resources, how-to articles and more to family history enthusiasts for 25 years. Family Tree Magazine covers all areas of potential interest to family history enthusiasts including genealogy research, ethnic heritage, DNA testing, family reunions, memoirs, oral history, archival preservation and more. In addition to the print magazine, Family Tree offers a website with a wide
variety of articles, a monthly podcast, online genealogy courses and webinars, and both weekly and daily newsletters.
About the 101 Best Genealogy Websites
The 101 Best Genealogy Websites is an annual list created by the editors of Family Tree Magazine to name the best online tools available for hobbyist genealogists to assist in their research. The list is published each year in the magazine as well as maintained online at https://familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/
