37 Fascinating Genealogy Gifts That Might Add A Few Branches To Your Family Tree

Keep the photos, film, and delicate documents safe from you by wearing these gloves while handling them. The white gloves are made of 100% cotton and won't damage the materials you're working with. They come in a pack of 12 and are machine washable.

Family Tree magazine will be a welcome monthly mailing for a genealogist. Every issue is packed with tips and tricks for doing research, new methodologies in the field of genealogy, under-the-radar places to look for info, and other fascinating facts that genealogists will devour.

She's done more than raise children, she's helped to create a legacy. With 23andMe's DNA test, she can get in touch with other parts of the family legacy and see where it all began. The test will deliver 80+ personalized reports to her that measure her ancestry to the .1" across 2000 geographic regions.

Get the highest quality archival supplies you can get by investing in some from Gaylord Supplies. Trusted for decades, all of their suppliers are made with chemically inert materials that won't affect or degrade the delicate items you're trying to preserve.

Upload documents and photos with incredible ease using this portable document scanner. This handy device scans and uploads documents and photographs with 900dpo quality, has a 16GB storage capacity, and features a slim profile that makes it highly portable.

A lot of genealogy is research but an equal part of it is about preserving your family history. This book walks genealogists through the process of preserving materials of all kinds and gives them tips and tricks for how to treat delicate artifacts with the care they deserve.

Since Genealogy is all about DNA, why not hug it? This plush strand of DNA is Watson and Crick's dream come true. It's about 9" tall, very cuddly and soft, and will give a genealogist dreams about family heritage when they sleep.

Even the Brady Bunch families out there can enjoy a little bit of genealogy. The sheets in this set are designed just for blended families and can cover 6 whole generations of all the branches of the tree. They're acid-free sheets, too, so they won't degrade over time.

Whether it's documents or printed photos of people from your past, they'll have a safe home in archival page protectors. The 11"x14" sheets are made with chemically inert materials that won't affect the papers, photos, or other artifacts you put inside them.

As you're digging through your family's history there will be times you discover dead-ends. This book, however, is the machete you need to cut through the dreck and keep making discoveries. It's got tips and tricks to help you overcome common problems like lost records, relatives with similar names, and more!

Keep all your family photo negatives in a safe place with binder pages made for storing them. Each sheet holds up to seven strips of five frames. They're compatible with 35mm film and are made with chemically neutral material that won't damage the delicate strips.

While mom is busy nesting, grandma can get down to business getting her most treasured recipes recorded and ready to pass along in the My Family Recipes Cookbook. This bright book is filled with pages specially formatted for writing down recipes and ingredients along with space for a picture.

Put your treasured family history in a book that looks like it has its own stories to tell with this creative record binder. It's more than a binder, though, with pedigree sheets, research checklists, and group record pages.

Contrary to popular belief, coffee isn't a writer's best friend, backups are. A WD 2TB portable external hard drive is a great way to preserve the work they have stored on their computer and in the cloud so it doesn't wind up in the Graveyard of Lost Words.

Navigating Ancestry.com can be a challenge to the uninitiated but this book is here to help. It's a walkthrough of all the nuances of the site and will turn genealogists into power users in no time.

A serious diagnosis like cancer might make a person a little more introspective than usual. With Story of My Life, they can make that introspection productive and entertaining, with prompts and free-write spaces that help them unleash their life story on paper. When they recover, the book could be a bestseller!

Encourage kids with an interest in genealogy to pursue their passion with a kit made just for them. This 31-sheet binder is packed with question and answer sheets for family members, maps to track roots, and conversation-starting prompts to help kids tell their family's story.

Investigate your family history with a full understanding of the task at hand with Practical Genealogy. The book will walk you through the obstacles you might encounter, how to overcome them, what to look for, what to ignore, and how to access resources in an efficient way.