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Copyright ©2020 Yankee Publishing Inc., Vol. 21, No. 2, March/April 2020. Subscription rates: one year, $36. Canadian subscriptions add $8 per year, other foreign subscriptions add $10 per year for surface mail or $35 per year for air mail and remit in US funds. Postmaster: Send all address changes to Family Tree Magazine, Box 420235, Palm Coast, FL 32141. Periodicals postage paid at Cincinnati, Ohio and additional mailing offices. Produced and printed in the USA. MEMORABILIA: COURTESY LISA LOUISE COOKE; AMPERSAND: YURIZ/ISTOCK; SLIDES: BGWALKER/ISTOCK SLIDES: YURIZ/ISTOCK; AMPERSAND: COOKE; LOUISE LISA COURTESY MEMORABILIA: 2 FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 MARCH/APRIL 2020 / VOLUME 21, ISSUE 2 out on a limb Editor Andrew Koch Art Director Lori Pedrick Photo Editor Heather Marcus Digital Editor Courtney Henderson Bright lights. Mobs of New Media Editor Rachel Fountain screaming fans. The hottest celebrities. Contributing Editors Lisa A. 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Digital Marketing Specialist Holly Sanderson In the Beatles-themed “The Fab Four” eCommerce Manager Alan Henning (page 18), Sunny Morton compares the records, family trees, DNA tests and EDITORIAL OFFICES: other key features of the big four geneal- 4445 Lake Forest Drive, Suite 470, Blue Ash, OH 45242 [email protected] ogy websites: Ancestry.com, FamilySe- ADVERTISING: arch, Findmypast and MyHeritage. Their Tim Baldwin, (248) 837-9293, “setlists” might be different, but each [email protected] site hits its own high notes that make it SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: U.S.: (888) 403-9002; international: (386) 246-3364; worthy of an encore. [email protected] With Sunny’s comparison guide, Rick Crume’s tips on searching digitized cen- Visit FamilyTreeMagazine.com for more genealogy informa- tion and products. suses at each of the “Fab Four” websites (page 56), and our online search tracker Family Tree Magazine, published in the United States, is not affiliated with the British Family Tree Magazine, (page 15), you’ll be ready to hit the stage. with Family Tree Maker software or with Family Tree DNA. Subscriptions to genealogy websites— like ticket prices—can add up quickly. FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE IS A DIVISION OF If you’re looking for something a little YANKEE PUBLISHING, INC: President and CEO Jamie Trowbridge easier on your wallet, you’ll love Dana VP Finance Sandy Lepple McCullough’s list of 50 free records col- VP Human Resources Jody Bugbee lections at for-profit genealogy websites VP Production and New Media Paul Belliveau, Jr. (page 41). And on page 28, Rachel Foun- VP Consumer Marketing Brook Holmberg tain (our New Media Editor who man- VP Single Copy Sales Sherin Pierce ages the Family Tree Magazine Facebook, VP Sales JD Hale, Jr. Twitter and Pinterest pages) shares <www.ypi.com> her favorite chart-topping social media accounts that are free to follow and per- Copyright © 2020 Yankee Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved. fect for genealogists. Family Tree Magazine is a registered trademark of Yankee Publishing, Inc. So sing your hearts out, and dance like no one’s watching. For those about to rock (and find your ancestors): We salute you. familytreemagazine.com 3 TREE TALK We asked for your Have your closest friends best online research subscribe to different sites, tips. Here’s how you then get together and have responded. genealogy research parties. Wendy Wanoyomus via Facebook Keep track of where you’ve researched. Carla Meier via Facebook If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. 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CJP/ISTOCK PHOTO; VINTAGE MOZZCAN/ISTOCK; PHONE: CELL 4 FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 ’ everything srelative “THE INTERNET HAS BEEN a wonderful boon to Irish genealogy, but it increases rather than decreases the need for skepticism…Saying ‘I found it on the internet’ is the equiva- lent of saying ‘I don’t know where I found it.’ And if you don’t know where you found information, you don’t know what it means.” Genealogist John Grenham <www.johngrenham.com> writes about the importance of sourcing data and records in online research in the fifth edition of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (Genealogical Publishing Co.). The book, first published in 1992 and updated in 2019, has become a standard for Irish genealogists, CGLADE /ISTOCK CGLADE covering the major record groups useful to studying ancestors from the Emerald Isle. familytreemagazine.com 5 everything’srelative LISA’S PICKS Spring Fever • Family History on Display Spring is in the air, and that means spring-cleaning time. Spruce up your walls with this clever picture frame, featuring clotheslines filled with family photos. A quick online search of clothesline photo display will bring up several affordable Lisa Louise Cooke options. I hung mine in my laundry room, then topped it off with an upcycled old is the founder of the Genealogy shelf filled with vintage household memorabilia. I don’t know if I like ironing any Gems website and podcast more now than I did before, but the display does put a smile on my face every day! <lisalouisecooke.com>, and host of the Family Tree Podcast <familytree magazine.com/podcasts>.
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