Unlock the family secrets in your DNA! Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most cutting edge tool available. This plain-English guide (newly updated and expanded to include th latest DNA developments) will teach you what DNA tests are available; the pros and cons of the major testing companies; and how to choose the right test to answer your specific genealogy questions. And once you've taken a DNA test, this guide will help you use your often-overwhelming results, with tips for understanding ethnicity estimates, navigating suggested cousin matches, and using third-party tools like GEDmatch to further analyze your data. The book features: · Colorful diagrams and expert definitions that explain key DNA terms and concepts such as haplogroups and DNA inheritance patterns · Detailed guides to each of the major kinds of DNA tests and tips for selecting the DNA test that can best help you solve your family mysteries, with case studies showing how each can be useful · Information about third-party tools you can use to more thoroughly analyze your test results once you've received them · Test comparison guides and research forms to help you select the most appropriate DNA test and organize your results · Insights into how adoptees and others who know little about their ancestry can benefit from DNA testing Whether you've just heard of DNA testing or you've tested at all three major companies, this guide will give you the tools you need to unpuzzle your DNA and discover what it can tell you about your family tree.

The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy

Parenting & Relationships

Bettinger, Blaine T.

Reference

Family Tree Books

Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges Has your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising's bestselling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to help you find the answers you seek. Inside you'll find: · Work-arounds for lost or destroyed records · Techniques for finding ancestors with common names · Ideas on how to find vital records before civil registration began · Advice for how to interpret and use your DNA results · Tips for finding individuals “missing” from censuses · Methods for finding ancestors who lived before 1850 · Strategies for analyzing your research problem and putting together a practical research plan This revised edition also includes new guides to record hints from companies like AncestryDNA. Plus you'll find a glossary of genealogy terms and case studies that put the book’s advice into action.

The Family Tree Problem Solver: Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors

Rising, Marsha Hoffman

Trace your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish ancestors! This convenient guide will help you discover your Northern European family history while optimizing your research time. Highlights include: • Strategies for identifying immigrant Scandinavian ancestors, plus how to trace them back to Europe from North America • Methods for locating Swedish genealogy records, Norwegian genealogy records, or Danish genealogy records within your family's town of origin • Detailed guides to finding and decoding common Scandinavian records, including: church records, civil registration records, census returns, property deeds, military records, and many more • Quick guides to Scandinavian history, geography, and language • Historical timelines, sample records, and resource lists that will bring your family history to life If your family tree includes Swedish roots, Danish roots, or Norwegian roots, The Family Tree Scandinavian Genealogy Guide is a must-have for your genealogy research.

The Family Tree Scandinavian Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway

History

Fryxell, David A.

Europe

Master the #1 Free Genealogy Website! Discover your ancestry on FamilySearch.org, the world's largest free genealogy website. This in-depth user guide shows you how to find your family in the site's databases of more than 3.5 billion names and millions of digitized historical records spanning the globe. Learn how to maximize all of FamilySearch.org's research tools--including hard-to-find features--to extend your family tree in America and the old country. In this book, you'll find: • Step-by-step strategies to craft search queries that find ancestors fast • Practical pointers for locating your ancestors in record collections that aren't searchable • Detailed overviews of FamilySearch.org's major U.S. collections, with helpful record explanations to inform your research • Guidance for using FamilySearch.org's vast record collections from Europe, Canada, Mexico and 100-plus countries around the world • Tips for creating and managing your family tree on FamilySearch.org • Secrets to utilizing user-submitted genealogies, 200,000 digitized family history books, and the FamilySearch catalog of 2.4 million offline resources you can borrow through a local FamilySearch Center • Worksheets and checklists to track your research progress Illustrated step-by-step examples teach you exactly how to apply these tips and techniques to your own research. Whether you're new to FamilySearch.org or you're a longtime user, you'll find the guidance you need to discover your ancestors and make the most of the site's valuable resources.

Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World's Largest Free Genealogy Website

McCullough, Dana

Your Interactive Family Album
From the editors of Family Tree magazine, this customizable family keepsake is the perfect place to record and share your family's story.
Family Tree Legacies helps you keep track of basic information and special memories, including traditions, heirloom histories, family records, newsworthy moments, family migrations and immigrations, old recipes, important dates, and much more. This unique book features:
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<li>dozens of fill-in pages to record all your essential family information</li>
<li>a fold-out family tree</li>
<li>space for mounting photographs</li>
<li>a relationship chart to help you trace your ancestry</li>
<li>stickers for use throughout the book</li>
<li>tips for discovering facts about your family history</li>
<li>a comprehensive list of additional resources</li>
</ul>
Plus, because of this book's unique binder format, you can literally grow your own family tree by using the included CD to print out new copies of the book's fill-in pages. You can record all your special family moments without ever worrying about running out of space.
Family Tree Legacies is a true treasure you can nurture and pass down through the generations.

Family Tree Legacies: Preserving Memories Throughout Time

Haddad, Diane

Stacy, Allison

Genealogy

The one book every genealogist must have! Whether you're just getting started in genealogy or you're a research veteran, The Family Tree Sourcebook provides you with the information you need to trace your roots across the United States, including:Research summaries, tips and techniques, with maps for every U.S. stateDetailed county-level data, essential for unlocking the wealth of records hidden in the county courthouseWebsites and contact information for libraries, archives, and genealogical and historical societiesBibliographies for each state to help you further your researchYou'll love having this trove of information to guide you to the family history treasures in state and county repositories. It's all at your fingertips in an easy-to-use format-and it's from the trusted experts at Family Tree Magazine!

The Family Tree Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources

Family Tree Magazine

People act like being dead is so serious.
But if you've spent any time in a cemetery, you know a lot of those dearly departed have to be rolling over in their graveswith laughter. This collection of ironic, comic and just plain ridiculous tombstones proves that it's possible to have a sense of humor about kicking the bucket. Just be careful you don't laugh yourself to death.

Grave Humor: A Photo Tour of Funny, Ironic and Ridiculous Tombstones

Comics & Graphic Novels

Coffin, M.T.

Comic Strips

Genealogy and History Facts at Your Fingertips
This convenient, timesaving, handy collection of genealogy reference material gathers the best resources, tips, lists and need-to-know facts from the experts at Family Tree Magazine. Use the Family Tree Pocket Reference to find:
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<li>Definitions for unfamiliar terms and acronyms</li>
<li>US state fast facts</li>
<li>Family tree software at a glance</li>
<li>Genealogy data websites</li>
<li>Surname origins</li>
<li>Naming practices by culture</li>
<li>Census dates and questions</li>
<li>US immigration ports</li>
</ul>
...and so much more! Stash the indispensable Family Tree Pocket Reference in your computer case, tote bag or, yes, your pocket, and take it with you wherever you research.

Family Tree Pocket Reference

Americas

Break through your brick walls!
Your family history research is humming along just fineyou've discovered a trove of old letters here, a census and a birth certificate there. Then something genealogists call a brick wall stops you cold: You can't find the record you need. Your great-grandmother's maiden name eludes you. You don't know where your immigrant ancestor was born.
Now you can meet those obstacles with the advice in 101 Brick Wall Busters: Solutions to Overcome Your Genealogical Challenges. This compilation of Family Tree Magazine experts' answers to readers' toughest questions offers solutions for beginning and veteran genealogists. You'll learn strategies and discover new resources for tracing missing ancestors, finding the right records, researching in the old country and more. And you can use our exclusive Records Checklist and Brick Wall Worksheet to formulate your plan of attack.
101 Brick Wall Busters is your secret weapon for getting over, around, under and through obstacles in your family history search.
Includes Brick Wall Busters on:
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<li>Research Strategies</li>
<li>Pinpointing Places</li>
<li>Unpuzzling Names</li>
<li>Organizing Your Research</li>
<li>Online Genealogy</li>
<li>Burned Records</li>
<li>Occupations</li>
<li>Kinship</li>
<li>Finding Women</li>
<li>Genetic Genealogy</li>
<li>International Research</li>
<li>Computerless Research</li>
<li>Records</li>
<li>Birth, Marriage and Death</li>
<li>Cemetery</li>
<li>Census</li>
<li>City Directories</li>
<li>Immigration</li>
<li>Military</li>
<li>Newspapers</li>
<li>Organizations, Institutions and Occupations</li>
<li>Tax</li>
<li>Wills</li>
<li>Ethnic Heritage</li>
<li>... and more!</li>
</ul>

101 Brick Wall Busters: Solutions to Overcome Your Genealogical Challenges

The Civil War is a fascinating time period in American history. Life in Civil War America, 2nd Edition provides readers with fast facts and statistics about the 1860s from military life to civilian life in both the North and South. Topics covered include: • social and economic realities of daily life • common slang and idioms • diets of the era, including recipes, food preparation and the impact of shortages and inflation on rations • civilian dress, military dress, and technology of the time. The book focuses on the era, not just the events of the war. Period illustrations and photos further illuminate the era.

Life in Civil War America

Varhola, Michael J. O.

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