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Family Tree Magazine September/October 2026 Digital Edition
What's Inside!
Highlights from this issue include:
- 6 specific steps for busting brick walls in your research
- Tips for writing must-read family stories using the details in records
- A genealogist’s guide to US history through six land-acquisition events
- Free tools at Ancestry.com
- A FREE Cemetery Research Cheat Sheet
Contents
Brick by Brick: By Rick Crume. Find your footing and scale your highest research brick walls—one step at a time.
Scribe and Seek: By Katharine Andrew. Close your eyes and count to 10—see what details are hiding in the photos and documents you upload to MyHeritage's new Scribe AI tool.
Writing a New Narrative: By Aryn S. Youngless. Turn details from genealogy records into vivid, memorable family stories with these strategies.
Civil Engineering: By Stephen Wendt. No civil or church records of your German ancestor? No problem. Find them in these censuses and population registers.
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?: By Andrew Koch. Fifty states, fifty stars. But how and why were they added to the Union? Learn a history of US expansion in six landmark events.
Plus!
- Research Guides: Arkansas and Michigan
- Stories to Tell
- Tech News
- Lisa’s Picks
- Website Tutorial: The Daughters of the American Revolution
- Photo Detective
- Family History Home: What NOT to Preserve
- Now What
- From the Archive: Free Tools at Ancestry.com
- DNA Q&A: Retaking a DNA Test
Once you download the September/October 2026 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.
What's Inside!
Highlights from this issue include:
- 6 specific steps for busting brick walls in your research
- Tips for writing must-read family stories using the details in records
- A genealogist’s guide to US history through six land-acquisition events
- Free tools at Ancestry.com
- A FREE Cemetery Research Cheat Sheet
Contents
Brick by Brick: By Rick Crume. Find your footing and scale your highest research brick walls—one step at a time.
Scribe and Seek: By Katharine Andrew. Close your eyes and count to 10—see what details are hiding in the photos and documents you upload to MyHeritage's new Scribe AI tool.
Writing a New Narrative: By Aryn S. Youngless. Turn details from genealogy records into vivid, memorable family stories with these strategies.
Civil Engineering: By Stephen Wendt. No civil or church records of your German ancestor? No problem. Find them in these censuses and population registers.
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?: By Andrew Koch. Fifty states, fifty stars. But how and why were they added to the Union? Learn a history of US expansion in six landmark events.
Plus!
- Research Guides: Arkansas and Michigan
- Stories to Tell
- Tech News
- Lisa’s Picks
- Website Tutorial: The Daughters of the American Revolution
- Photo Detective
- Family History Home: What NOT to Preserve
- Now What
- From the Archive: Free Tools at Ancestry.com
- DNA Q&A: Retaking a DNA Test
Once you download the September/October 2026 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.