Family Tree Magazine November/December 2025 Digital Edition

Highlights from this issue include:

• Tips for researching 20th-century family members from recent generations
• A comprehensive look at the new Family Tree Maker 2024 software
• Expert guidance on reviewing your DNA test results again and again
• 6 simple steps to making a family cookbook
• A FREE Immigration Records Cheat Sheet

Contents

Days of Our Lives: By Sunny Jane Morton. Uncover and share the stories of recent generations—including family you may have known yourself—with these tips.

Maker Space: By Rick Crume. This tour of Family Tree Maker 2024 will show how the long-awaited software can help you take ownership of your research.

Next Steps: By Diahan Southard. Did you take a DNA test, then ask yourself “Now What”? Here’s how and why you should revisit your results—even if it’s been several years since you tested.

In the Write Order: By Rhonda Lauritzen. An expert storyteller shares how to efficiently write well-organized, gripping family history projects.

Original Recipe: By Gena Philibert-Ortega. Create cookbooks that save and share your favorite family recipes—just like Grandma used to make.

Plus!

• Research Guides: Arizona and Pennsylvania
• Stories to Tell
• Tech News
• Lisa’s Picks
• Website Tutorial: Scotland’s People
• Photo Detective
• Family History Home: Saving Pet Memorabilia
• Now What
• From the Archive: The Origins of Surnames
• DNA Q&A: Transferring DNA Results

Once you download the November/December 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.