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By Rick Crume Getting Up to Date
How your old photos were taken is the first clue to when they were taken. Use our timeline of photographic methods to date and preserve images from your family's past.
By Maureen A. Taylor
National Geographic
Were your ancestors here, there and everywhere? Consult this clip-and-save guide to explain their confounding peripatetic ways.
By the editors
Basic Training
Do you have what it takes to succeed as a genealogist? Follow our six-step research regimen to transform your ancestor searches.
By Lisa A. Alzo
Back to Baltics
Follow these eight steps to trace your Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian roots.
By Lisa A. Alzo
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Genealogy Insider
What's new in discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history:
• five up-and-coming family historians under age 26
• genealogy: not just for humans
• images of New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• worthwhile roots reads
Edited by Diane Haddad
Web Guide
Learn to master family history Web sites: Whether you're a beginner or a power user, our pullout guides show you how to make the most of popular online destinations, with how-to advice, navigation hints, screen-by-screen search techniques and cheat sheets of quick links and shortcuts.
In this issue: OneGreatFamily
The Toolkit
Reviews and roundups of the latest, greatest family history resources:
• roundup of databases you can access free at Family History Centers
• quick guide to translation tools
• seven steps to create a family group on Facebook
• surname searching tutorial
Edited by Allison Stacy
Out on a Limb
A letter from our editor.
By Allison Stacy
Making Connections
Readers respond to Family Tree Magazine.
History Matters
A sticky story: the history of adhesives.
By David A. Fryxell
Family Archivist
Learn the benefits of blogging your family history.
By Sunny McClellan Morton
Now What?
Answers to your questions on documenting online family tree data and early births.
Everything's Relative
Tales from the lighter side of family history.
Document Detective
Clues in the 1900 census.
By George G. Morgan
Time Capsule
An immigrant woman's childbirth experience.
By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
