Product Description
What’s Inside!
Highlights from this issue include:
- Guides to writing your family history, featuring: easy steps to get started, tips for incorporating genealogical details and places into your writing, and a worksheet for organizing projects
- A tutorial for finding and using Sanborn maps, which are available for most communities in the United States
- Expert advice for using the free FamilySearch website to find genealogy records
- A roundup of genealogy software releases in 2024
- A FREE US Census Records Cheat Sheet
Contents
First Words: By Melina Papadopoulos. Start your next family history writing project with confidence! These four steps will walk you through putting pen to paper.
Falling into Place: By Laura Hedgecock. Tell the stories of not just people but also their communities with this guide to writing about places.
The Goldilocks Zone: By Rhonda Lauritzen. Find the “just-right” sweet spot of details to include when writing family stories.
Free for All: By Rick Crume. Discover record riches on FamilySearch with these tips.
Acadian Adventures: By Judy Nimer Muhn. Overcome hurdles in Acadian genealogy (including the Great Expulsion) with this guidance. Flus: tips for visiting your ancestral homeland.
Plus!
- Research Guides: Maryland and Oklahoma
- Stories to Tell
- Tech News
- Lisa’s Picks
- Source Spotlight: Sanborn Maps
- Website Tutorial: Library and Archives Canada
- Resource Roundup: Must-Have Genealogy Supplies
- Photo Detective
- Family History Home: Saving Political Buttons and Memorabilia
- Now What
- DNA Q&A: DNA and Privacy
- 2024 Article Index
Once you download the November/December 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, you’ll need a PDF reader, such as the free Adobe Reader software, to open it. Adobe Reader is available for both Mac and Windows computers.