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July Issue Coming Soon!
Gear up for summer with the July 2008 issue of Family Tree Magazine. Our cover story gives you 12 strategies for recharging your research battery. We also give advice for tracing French roots, tracking family health history and connecting with distant cousins. Look for the July issue on newsstands nationwide and here on FamilyTreeMagazine.com May 13.
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Has your clan worked together to solve a family mystery? Taken a teamwork approach to writing or documenting your family history? Tell us your story for a chance to win prizes and get published in Family Tree Magazine! To enter, post your story (500 words or less) in the Terrific Family Tree Teamwork Contest section of our forum. You'll need to register—it's free—in order to access the contest.



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Get the scoop on the latest genealogy news, help with research questions and tips for identifying old family photos on our blogs. Here’s what we’re reporting on now:

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Trace your ancestors across the USA with this special series from Family Tree Magazine. Each state guide contains a how-to article with state-specific resources and strategies, plus a handy quick-reference sheet listing key facts, Web sites, books, organizations and historic destinations, along with a map and a timeline. You can stash the guides in your research binder or tote them to the library. Don't miss out on these valuable research tools—find out today which states we've already covered.






Find your way through the maze of online genealogy with Family Tree Magazine's annual guide to the 101 best Web sites for tracing your roots. We'll feature a new site here each day; for links to all the honorees, see our 101 best Web sites index.

Institute of Migration
www.migrationinstitute.fi/index_e.php
Finnish records here include passenger lists (318,000 records), passports (197,000), farm names (227,000) and North American Finns (146,000 people).. You can search emigrants for free; full access costs about $40 for a year.

See previous years' picks: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006





Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones
Yes, there really was an Ima Hogg. And Ima Pigg, born in 1890, lived in Oklahoma during the 1930 census. On this fun blog, the authors of the book Bad Baby Names (Ancestry, $9.95) post about amazing-but-true names of actual people found in the census.
The address: www.badbabynames.net/

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