Feature Articles
Volunteer: The Best Ways to Share Your Time
Discover fulfilling family history volunteer opportunities that will suit your busy schedule and your research skills.
by Jennifer Browning
A Sampling of Service: Volunteers of the South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
For more than thirty years, volunteers have been the backbone of South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society.
by Linda Herrick Swisher
The Joy of Journals
Learn how to keep a creative journal and discover why they are so important to family historians, and to society.
by Esther Yu
Finding Your Ancestors' Journals
Most of us are not fortunate to have inherited family diaries or journals, however, more and more of these personalized treasures are available for research, and many have been published.
by Loretto Dennis Szucs
Coincidence? Serendipitous Events at the Cemetery
One family historian's research experiences opened his mind to phenomena that he couldn't explain.
by Christopher C. Bain
Safeguarding Your Legacy
How will you take stock of your family history possessions and ensure that they are dealt with according to your wishes?
by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL
Columns
Step by Step
Step 17: Online Research
Divide the vast resources of the Internet into civilized and wilderness areas to conquer your research objectives.
by Terry and Jim Willard
Research Cornerstones
Identifying Shortfalls in Research
How many more questions should be asked before we quit searching for the details of our most elusive ancestor's life?
by Donn Devine, CG, CGI
Digging Deeper
Military Records off the Beaten Path
When Johnny came marching home, he may have left a few valuable genealogical records trailing behind him.
by Curt B. Witcher, FUGA
Technology
Advanced Queries in the 1880 Census CD-ROMs
With the Advanced Query feature included in the 1880 Census CD-ROM package, searching for your ancestors just got a lot easier.
by Mark Howells
Departments
Editor's Note
by Loretto Dennis Szucs
Book View
by Sandra H. Luebking, FUGA
Case Study
The Helm Family Secret
The identity and history of this author's grandfather shouldn't have been a ninety-year family secret.
by George F. Hamilton
Bare Bones
A Diamond in the Rough
by Matt Burchett
Ancestry Magazine Staff
Executive Editor
Loretto D. Szucs, FUGA
Managing Editor
Jennifer Utley
Associate Editor
Jennifer Browning
Art Director/Production Manager
Robert Davis
Contributing Editors
Matthew Wright
Esther Yu
Marketing Coordinator
Heather Stratford
Editorial Intern
Christy Shepherd
Contributors
Ralph J. Crandall, Ph.D.
Donn Devine, CG, CGI
Jake Gehring
Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D.
Mark Howells
Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS
Sandra H. Luebking, FUGA
Juliana S. Smith
Terry and Jim Willard
Curt B. Witcher, FUGA
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