Family Tree Books submission guidelines and market information
Family Tree Books Submission Guidelines
Submission Address
Imprint of F+W Publications, Inc.
4700 E. Galbraith Rd.
Cincinnati OH 45236
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Submitting Your Work to Family Tree Books
Before submitting to Family Tree Books
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To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with Family Tree Books by reading at least one of their titles before submitting.
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From the Guidelines
Q: How do I become a writer for Family Tree?
In addition to reader participation opportunities, we welcome queries from writers looking to contribute to our magazine and/or website. Before reaching out, please consult our writer’s guidelines and browse our content to get a feel for the type of material we publish.
Writer’s Guidelines
- Family Tree covers genealogy, ethnic heritage, personal history, genealogy websites and software, photography and photo preservation, and other ways that families connect with their pasts.
- Articles are beginner-friendly but never talk down to the audience. Readers may be experts in one area of our coverage, yet novices in another. We emphasize sidebars, tips and other reader-friendly “packaging,” and each article aims to provide the resources necessary to take the next step in the quest for one’s personal past.
We accept queries by email to FamilyTree@yankeepub.com only. If we’ve never worked with you before, please include writing samples (published clips preferred) with your query. Please don’t call with queries or to check on the status of your query. Allow six to eight weeks for a response. - The ideal Family Tree Magazine writer is both a writer—able to explain complex topics in clear, friendly, easy-to-read articles and sidebars—and an expert (or interested amateur) in one of our coverage areas. Your query should indicate both why you’re right for this topic and why you’re able to write it.
- Please query with a specific story idea. In general, we’re looking for articles that are right for our magazine, not for writers to assign articles to. Please do not submit finished articles or articles previously published in other genealogical magazines, books or online media. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
- Both online content and magazine issues are planned well in advance. Though our lead time is technically about six months, we may have a plan for the November/December issue by January of that year. Better to look too far ahead than to miss the boat. And we do like to be timely—scheduling a story on wedding records in June, for example.
- Our style is bright, breezy, helpful and encouraging. We’re NOT an academic journal or a genealogy-research journal.
- Articles need to be broad enough in scope to appeal to a general audience, yet narrow enough to support specific, useful information. “Getting Started with the National Archives” might be a good article for us; “1840 North Carolina Census Records” is not.
- We do not publish personal experience stories or the histories of specific families in our magazine. Nor do we publish generic family or parenting articles—keep in mind that our focus is how to do family history.
- Query with specific suggestions on accompanying sidebars, tip boxes, resource lists and other elements, as well as ideas for content that might be appropriate for posting on our website.
- Please read a copy of the magazine before querying.