Family Tree Magazine September/October 2024 Digital Edition

What's Inside!

Highlights from this issue include:

• Tips for organizing what you inherit from relatives: research, photos, heirlooms and more
• 5 steps for digitizing family photos and records
• A guide to German civil records, plus a timeline of German history
• Strategies for finding (and understanding) tombstones and death-related records and heirlooms
• A FREE Obituaries Cheat Sheet

Contents

Family Inheritance: By Denise May Levenick. These five tasks will help you turn the boxes of materials you inherited from family into an organized archive.

Ready, Set, Digitize!: By Rick Crume. Genealogists, start your engines! Avoid overwhelm while digitizing photos and records with this guide.

Memento Mori: By Robbie Gorr. These death-related heirlooms may seem macabre by modern standards. But they hold details that are valuable to modern genealogists.

Treasure the Register: By Stephen Wendt. Tap into valuable Standesamtregistern—German civil vital records almost as old as Germany itself.

Choose Your Own Adventure: By the Editors of Family Tree Magazine. This October, celebrate Family History Month your own way! These resources will help, whatever path your month takes.

Plus!

• Research Guides: Delaware and Illinois
• Stories to Tell
• Tech News
• Lisa’s Picks
• Source Spotlight: Cemetery Records
• Website Tutorial: Chronicling America
• Resource Roundup: Tools for Keeping in Touch with Relatives
• Photo Detective
• Family History Home: Saving School Supplies and Writing Utensils
• Now What
• DNA Q&A: DNA Matches Without a Family Tree
• Your Turn: Project Management Form

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