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Tracing Hard-to-Find Ancestors: Family Tree Magazine Podcast Episode 96

Get several genealogy tips for researching those hard-to-find ancestors with this month's podcast. Host Lisa Louise Cooke talks with David Fryxell, James M. Beidler, and the editors at Family Tree about researching your ancestors in newspaper archives, finding missing people in the census, analyzing your evidence to find gaps in your research, and other strategies for uncovering those sneaky ancestors.

Tracing Immigrant Ancestors: Family Tree Magazine Podcast Episode 95

In this April, 2016 episode of the Family Tree Podcast, get the scoop on tracing your immigrant ancestors, from tips on finding German and Eastern European ancestors, to tracing your Irish immigrant ancestors.

Cutting-Edge Genealogy Tools & Apps

New genealogy tech tools compete for prizes at the RootsTech conference Innovator Showdown. Check out these six award-winning apps and tools that help you get your research tasks done.

Tutorial: How to Use DNALand

Third-party tools for genetic genealogy give you the ability to explore your DNA in ways beyond what your testing company provides. A free third-party tool called DNA.Land offers analysis of raw data from the “big three” testing companies: 23andMe, AncestryDNA and Family Tree DNA. In addition...

Quick Guide: Online Photo Editors

With news that Google is abandoning its photo-editing service, Picasa, you may be wondering how you’ll edit your pictures now. The choices are many, both online and via your mobile devices. Some services feature one-click fixes, stickers, frames and fun collages; others have the sophistication of high-end editing software...

Clues in English Parish Records

In 1537, a law required Church of England ministers to record all baptisms, marriages and burials in their parishes, beginning no later than Jan. 1, 1538. A parish would record all events together in the same book until 1754, when legislation dictated that marriages be recorded in a separate book...