FEATURES

Hitting Home
Surf smarter, not harder! These six search-engine secrets show how to target your queries—and find ancestors fast. By Nancy Hendrickson
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Faith's Rewards
Your quest to uncover genealogy's holy grail begins here: Follow these six steps to start finding and using church records. By David A. Fryxell
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Going the Distance
How do you interview far-flung relatives when you can't be there in person? Call on these five long-distance methods for capturing oral history. By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
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Clean Sweep
Give your hard drive an organizational overhaul: Our guide to cutting computer clutter serves up six solutions to get (and keep!) your family files in order. By Rick Crume
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The Land of Your Fathers
Unearth your Welsh heritage with this step-by-step primer. By Lise Hull

A Meeting in St. Louis
Get ready for a rendezvous with genealogy and history, as Lewis and Clark's launchpad hosts the GENTECH conference. We show you where to explore your roots—and the famous expedition—in the Gateway City. By Crystal Conde
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COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Out on a Limb
Family history that's better than you can imagine. By Allison Stacy

Making Connections
A town-finding tip, lineage letters and more feedback from readers.

Branching Out
What's new in discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history, including: • The National Archives' new research center • Black history lessons • Ohio's feud over family records • Mac software with a French twist • The Jewish "Library of Congress." Edited by Diane Haddad

Living History
Winter's best bets for reliving the past and exploring your heritage, including: Cooking up history in Illinois and Utah ... Unweaving a tribal tradition in New York ... Fattening up on Alabama heritage ... Joining Virginia's presidential birthday bash. By Lauren Eisenstodt

Preserving Memories
Accents for Civil War scrapbook pages, plus more heritage-album tools and techniques. By Patti Swoboda

Now What?
Social Security solutions and Cuban connections—our experts answer your questions.

Everything's Relative
Tales from the lighter side of family history. Plus! Our new Celebri-Trees feature showcases famous families' pedigrees—to provide cues for your own research.

The Toolkit
Our report card on Family Tree Maker 11. Plus: • Irish Origins' valuable new resource reviewed • GenSmarts gets an IQ test • How to call overseas relatives—for free • Pages from the darker side of women's history. Edited by Lauren Eisenstodt

Photo Detective
Clues from the flip side. By Maureen A. Taylor

Time Capsule
How a baseball star's father sowed his field of dreams. By Paul O'Neill