Product Description
What’s Inside!
Highlights from this issue include:
- Tips for organizing what you inherit from relatives: research, photos, heirlooms and more
- 5 steps for digitizing family photos and records
- A guide to German civil records, plus a timeline of German history
- Strategies for finding (and understanding) tombstones and death-related records and heirlooms
- A FREE Obituaries Cheat Sheet
Contents
Family Inheritance: By Denise May Levenick. These five tasks will help you turn the boxes of materials you inherited from family into an organized archive.
Ready, Set, Digitize!: By Rick Crume. Genealogists, start your engines! Avoid overwhelm while digitizing photos and records with this guide.
Memento Mori: By Robbie Gorr. These death-related heirlooms may seem macabre by modern standards. But they hold details that are valuable to modern genealogists.
Treasure the Register: By Stephen Wendt. Tap into valuable Standesamtregistern—German civil vital records almost as old as Germany itself.
Choose Your Own Adventure: By the Editors of Family Tree Magazine. This October, celebrate Family History Month your own way! These resources will help, whatever path your month takes.
Plus!
- Research Guides: Delaware and Illinois
- Stories to Tell
- Tech News
- Lisa’s Picks
- Source Spotlight: Cemetery Records
- Website Tutorial: Chronicling America
- Resource Roundup: Tools for Keeping in Touch with Relatives
- Photo Detective
- Family History Home: Saving School Supplies and Writing Utensils
- Now What
- DNA Q&A: DNA Matches Without a Family Tree
- Your Turn: Project Management Form
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