Family Tree Magazine March/April 2026 Digital Edition

What's Inside!

Highlights from this issue include:

• Tips for handling your thousands of digital photos (and cleaning up your phone)
• Fillable worksheets to help you organize your genealogy
• A guide to immigration through New York City’s Castle Garden
• Tips for finding Irish, Swedish and French ancestors
• A FREE FamilySearch Cheat Sheet

Contents

Digital Photo Frenzy: By Andrew Koch. Organize your thousands of photos (and declutter your smartphone and laptop) in seven steps.

Form-Fitting: By the Editors of Family Tree Magazine. Record your hard-earned research in these eight essential genealogy worksheets.

Site Savoir-Faire: By Paul Woodbury. Say bonjour to French ancestors with these 11 websites—and a guide to government and specialty websites.

The Secret Garden: By Katharine Andrew. Learn the history of Castle Garden (predecessor of Ellis Island) and your 19th-century ancestors who arrived there.

Plus!

• Research Guides: Connecticut and South Dakota
• Source Spotlight: Institutional Records
• Stories to Tell
• Tech News
• Lisa’s Picks
• Website Tutorial: ArkivDigital
• Photo Detective
• Family History Home: Preserving Religious Artifacts
• Now What
• From the Archive: Irish Censuses Online
• DNA Q&A: Contacting Matches

Once you download the March/April 2026 issue of Family Tree Magazine, you’ll need a PDF reader, such as the free Adobe Reader software, to open it. Adobe Reader is available for both Mac and Windows computers.