Digital downloads

In addition to our popular magazine Family Tree, we also publish a growing range of digital family history guides, available to download for your device. Choose from the selection below and be sure to sign up to the Family Tree e-newsletter to receive the latest news on new digital guides direct to your inbox!

How to Trace Your Victorian Ancestors: Everything you need to know to get started

The Victorian period is rich in genealogy records for lovers of family history and this exclusive guide from the experts behind Family Tree magazine will help you start tracing your 19th century ancestors online from scratch, and learn about their lives in depth.

With census, civil registration records, newspaper archives, occupation records, passenger lists, your own collection of family photographs and memorabilia and much more, you can begin delving into this golden era of family history when Queen Victoria sat on the throne.

So don your detective hat and get stuck in; there's plenty to learn about your Victorian family in the past in this special guide. Happy researching!


	Digital download £3.99

Note: Apple and Google – History Guide available as an in-app purchase. Download the History Scotland app and select the relevant issue to download.

Family History Handbook 2019

The Family History Handbook is back and it’s better than ever! Packed with genealogy reference material, the Handbook will be an invaluable guide for family historians of all levels - one that they can turn to time and again throughout the year!

Discover key documents – explore our collection of must-search family history records, learn how to use them, where to find them online

Get DNA know-how – from choosing a test, to the latest advice on DNA matches, data transfers and more – for successful DNA family history results

Plus those all-important directory details – for family history societies and archives – get out and about with your family history!


		Digital download £5.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

Your Guide to DNA

The Family Tree guide, in association with MyHeritage has everything you need to know about DNA and family history.

Discover fascinating facts about using DNA to enhance your family tree, with expert content exploring the major DNA tests and the latest DNA projects.

Highlights include:
• Why you need a DNA test for family history
• Spotlight on the major DNA tests
• MyHeritage DNA tests


	Digital download £2.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

How to Start your Family Tree

This collected edition of beginner features is packed full of expert tips, how-to advice and lots of ideas for starting your family tree from scratch and writing up your family history.

With this guide, you could soon trace your ancestors back to the Victorian era and beyond.

• Exploring birth, marriage & death records
• How to use the census
• Caring for your precious documents & photos
• How to write up up the story of your family
• Why join a family history society?


		Digital download £4.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

Trace Your Scottish Ancestors

Our selection of resources will help you piece together a rich picture of your family’s past in Scotland.

The key records you need to start searching are available online, so you can jump right in. Following this guide, you’ll gain a solid understanding of how to research family in Scotland – and we’ll show you some historic resources to really stretch your skills too.


		Digital download £4.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

Family Tree Essential Guides 1 - Learn to read old handwriting and Latin

One of the joys of family history is the opportunity to learn new things. In our mini guide we’ll teach you the essential Latin words and phrases you need to translate historic family history documents, plus we’ll give you tricks of the trade to help you decipher old handwriting. Improve your research skills today!


		Digital download £0.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

Family Tree Essential Guides 2 - The top FREE family history websites!

The web is the go-to research tool for today’s family historian. Discover our handpicked selection of the top FREE websites for family history – to help you make new discoveries without parting with a penny more. Plus 25 free military websites for family historians, to help you trace your ancestors who fought in the wars.


		Digital download £0.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.

Family Tree Essential Guides 3 - Getting beyond 1837

Learn how to use the parish records of baptisms, marriages and burials of 500 years of your ancestors in our mini guide.
Our goal when tracing our family trees is to go back as far in time as we can, and find as many of our ancestors as we can, for the fullest family tree possible. Parish registers are the records that can help you do just this.
Parish registers stretch back five centuries – to the time of King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. And – most importantly for family historians – they include ancestors from all walks of life – paupers to aristocrats and everyone in between. Search them to find your kin.


		Digital download £0.99

Note: Apple and Google – available as an in-app purchase. Download the Family Tree app and select the relevant issue to download.