Family Tree Magazine September/October 2021 Digital Edition

What's Inside!

Highlights from this issue include:

• a comparison of the three largest cemetery websites: Find a Grave, BillionGraves and Interment.net
• tips for preserving damaged tombstones and enhancing the writing on them
• how to "re-create" the destroyed 1890 US federal census using record substitutes
• a beginner's guide to genealogy source citations
• a FREE Historical Maps Cheat Sheet

Contents

HeavyweightsBy Sunny Jane MortonDocument your favorite cemeteries this fall using cemetery websites. We look at the pros and cons of the three largest: BillionGraves, Find a Grave and Interment.net.Set in StoneBy Joy NeighborsLearn the do's and don'ts of preserving your family's tombstone with this guide to grave damage, plus what you can do to enhance faded inscriptions.Showing Your WorkBy Andrew KochThough not glamorous, citing your sources can reap great rewards for your research. Here's how to start.Digging Through the AshesBy Dr. Shelley Viola MurphyIs the 1890 census really missing? With record substitutes and the right frame of mind, the answer is not so simple.All SoulsBy Moises GarzaCatholic records are some of the oldest-kept documents in Mexican genealogy, dating back to the 1500s. Here's how to find and interpret them. 

Plus!

• Research Guides: Kansas and Mississippi
• Stories to Tell
• Tech News
• Lisa's Picks
• Source Spotlight: Death Records
• Website Tutorial: Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki
• Resource Roundup: Family Tree-Building Software
• Photo Detective
• Family History Home: Saving Newspapers
• Now What
• DNA Q&A: Prioritizing DNA Matches
• Your Turn: Source Citation Extraction Form

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