The Family History Guide Blog

November 2, 2025

On Vacation

The Family History Guide Blog is on vacation – see you next week with new blog posts, and thanks for your support of The Family History Guide!

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October 25, 2025

RootsTech 2026: Our 10th Year

It’s that time again: time to start preparing for the world’s largest and most exciting family history conference, RootsTech 2026, to be held from March 5-7. Registration has already begun, and you can reserve a spot for the online or in-person events using the RootsTech Home Page. The online sessions are free, and early-bird discount pricing is available for the...

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October 25, 2025

New Content Specialist: Barbara Tubbs

The Family History Guide Association welcomes the newest member of its Management Team, Barbara Tubbs, as a Content Specialist. We are excited to have her add her expertise and experience in writing and family history research to our many projects. Here is a brief bio for Barbara, which information is also available in our TFHG Association page on The Family...

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October 18, 2025

New Layout for the Guided Learning Page

If you have visited the Guided Learning page in The Family History Guide, you’ve seen the bullet lists of links to various guided research videos. As we have added more videos, those lists are getting a bit long; so we have switched to links that use image thumbnails, which also adds visual appeal. Here’s a brief example (links not active...

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October 18, 2025

Name the Town, Find the Ancestors

I have a friend who was recently called to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the Birmingham England Mission. I sent him an email to ask what town he was currently in, and he said that the town is Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk county. That rang a bell, as I remembered...

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October 13, 2025

Finding Records Lost Online in the AI Universe

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. FamilySearch.org‘s Full-text Search capability is an overwhelming change to way genealogical searches are conducted and may well modify or replace any current way of searching historical documents. At the heart of using a previously unavailable tool for genealogical research is an artificial intelligence supported handwriting recognition. Currently, the...

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October 4, 2025

New Practice Exercises, England Counties

Over the past few weeks we have begun adding Record Search Practice Exercises for England counties. Below are the new additions so far, with more to come. Note: the census links below apply to electoral records. (There are already quite a few church and cemetery Practice Exercises for England counties.) To access the England county pages, use the the alphabetical...

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October 4, 2025

RootsTech 2026 Registration Is Now Open

It’s that time again – time to register and start getting ready for the world’s largest family history conference. RootsTech will be held in Salt Lake City from March 5-7, 2026, and many sessions will be available to view for free anywhere in the world. The Family History Guide Association has exhibited at RootsTech every year since 2016, with presenters...

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September 28, 2025

New Guided Learning Videos

The collection of Guided Learning videos continues to increase, with 14 new videos since our last post a few weeks ago. Here are the newest entries, which are also available on the Guided Learning page in the Research Skills menu:

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