Ancestry family tree

Online family trees are great for getting hints and finding cousins, but you should always keep a backup. Here's how to download your Ancestry family tree.

Download a Free Family Tree Template to make your own printable family tree charts or use our blank family tree chart PDF.

One of the best ways of preserving your family history and to make the most of your research is to make a family tree album that can help you preserve the information for future generations. Making a family tree album can also help to bring all the family stories and pictures together so that your

Identifying old family photographs does not have to be impossible! Tips to identify your ancestors and discover your family history in old family photos.

Getting organized and knowing how to address government agencies and organizations can help you get quicker, more effective results. Family Tree Magazine has created these 61 free genealogy forms that can help you access and organize your family history information. They're available in two formats: text and portable document format...

From the publishers of Family Tree Magazine, Family Tree University is the premier site for online genealogy courses that teach you how to trace your ancestors.

Illegitimacy was not uncommon in earlier centuries. About 5% of all children born in England and Wales between 1837 and 1965 were illegitimate, which means they were born out of wedlock. Many family tree researchers will find during their research that there is at least one illegitimate ancestor in their family. Illegitimacy is no longer

There are many ways of finding out about an ancestor's parents, but one of the main ways is to use vital records such as birth and marriage certificates because marriage certificates normally include the father's name, and birth certificates both parents names unless the child was illegitimate. The first place to look to find an

Record References Don’t waste time searching for records that don’t exist—these cheat sheets list available records and time periods. Here’s a list of the cheat sheets currently available in this category. Check back often as we’ll continue to add new ones. Naturalization Laws Timeline What laws might have affected your...

Whether you realize it or not, you might be doing this one, unhelpful thing on your Ancestry family tree. Here's how to fix it so you can get better results with your DNA matching! #genealogy