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How to Customize Your Family Tree Maker Family Chart Without Getting Completely Overwhelmed

Family Tree Maker has some really helpful chart options. It also has approximately 700 different ways to customize those charts. Okay, maybe not 700. But once you start clicking through…

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How to Photograph Your Family Heirlooms (Without Accidentally Making Them Look Haunted)

Family heirlooms are funny things. Sometimes they’re obvious treasures: old photographs military medals handwritten letters jewelry passed through generations And sometimes? It’s a spoon. Or a button tin. Or a…

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What’s Your Genealogy Score? A Slightly Nerdy Way to Measure Your Family Tree

I’m a numbers person. I'll admit it. Always have been. So naturally, at some point in my genealogy journey, I started wondering: Okay… but how complete is my family tree…

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