Family Tree Magazine May/June 2025 Digital Edition

What's Inside!

Highlights from this issue include:

• A guide to researching family members who fought in World War II (and other military conflicts)
• Tips for using FamilySearch's innovative full-text search feature
• Steps for planning family reunions and translating records
• Advice from expert storytellers on conducting family interviews
• A FREE MyHeritage Cheat Sheet

Contents

Raising the Flag: By David A. Fryxell. Research your family members who fought in World War II using these five key records.

Full Force: By Andrew Koch. Dive into unindexed records with FamilySearch’s full-text search.

Found in Translation: By Rick Crume. Learn how online tools—from word lists to chatbots—can help you decipher foreign-language records.

Reunion Ready: By Lisa A. Alzo. Whether you’re planning for your first reunion or your 50th, these seven steps (plus a detailed checklist) will help.

Speaking Softly: By Rhonda Lauritzen. Navigate hard-to-talk-about subjects in family history interviews with these tips from journalists and other storytellers.

Plus!

• Research Guides: Kentucky and Puerto Rico
• Stories to Tell
• Tech News
• Lisa’s Picks
• Source Spotlight: Gazetteers
• Website Tutorial: Find a Grave
• Photo Detective
• Family History Home: Saving Photo Albums
• Now What
• From the Archive: Researching US Military Service
• DNA Q&A: Can AncestryDNA's Pro Tools help me with my DNA?

Once you download the May/June 2025 issue of Family Tree Magazine, you’ll need a PDF reader, such as the free Adobe Reader software, to open it. Adobe Reader is available for both Mac and Windows computers.