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Let’s Talk About: Family Tree W&M..?

by Donna Phillips


Would you be interested in knowing of a One-Stop-Shopping Place for genealogy research???? WELL, it’s here! Almost, anyway. 

Family Tree is not just a magazine that you find on many news stands. (Although the magazine is well worth the price, it is surely is cheaper by subscription.)

Family Tree offers:

* A really, really helpful bi-monthly magazine both in print and e-edition. 

*A website with a hundred “clicks” to check out!

* A long list of FREE resources, forms, guides and E-books.

* A long list of Cheat Sheets for help with various websites (Like The Big Four).

*A long list of country-centric guides.

*A long list of (paid) 13 courses to teach you “more better.”

*A YouTube channel offering free tutorials…like Finding Ancestors Who Worked on the Railroad.

* A list of 15 Cheat Sheets one can order (like for Ancestry, Find My Past, My Heritage, Jewish Genealogy, Adoption, Scandinavian, Scottish plus Civil War Genealogy and US Census Genealogy (plus packages of several).

I most enthusiastically urge you to take a cold January winter day or afternoon and click to www.FamilyTreeMagazine.com. With soft background music, and a warm drink nearby, you’re in for a learning treat, I guarantee it!

Let’s Talk About…… The Family Tree Family

by Donna Phillips

FamilyTree is not just a magazine; not just a website and definitely not to be overlooked!

There is education and learning contained and offered here that one might could say this is “one stop shopping.” 


The magazine comes six times per year; the May/June 2023 issue (pictured above) carried that multi-page article on Colonial Roots. 

In the “5 Questions with Sunny Jane Morton,” she answered the question “How to build your own research guide for a country or region” you’ve never researched before?” Sunny’s answer: Start with the FamilySearch Research WIKI; learn about that place’s language, culture, religions, occupations and more. Browse categories about that place and create your own “research notebook.” 

Another article was “How To Write To Know,” about writing a really good, readable, family history. How can you go wrong with information like that??bThe magazine carries special inserts each month too. These are Cheat Sheets (how to do XXX) and State Research Guides. These are offered for sale on the FamilyTree website but come free with magazine subscription. 


Last but not least, the website, www.familytreemagazine.com, offers MANY different research aids and helps; some for free and some for small money. 


Subscriptons can be ordered for a print magazine or an e-magazine; your choice. But think about it……….. what could be better for a birthday present to you????