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February 23, 2025

The Family History Guide Booth at RootsTech

As you probably know, The Family History Guide Association will have a large booth space in the RootsTech Expo Hall in Salt Lake City in just over two weeks. Here’s a brief recap of what we will be offering at the booth for RootsTech 2025: Here’s a quick rendering of how the booth is shaping up, with the Viewpoint Corner...

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February 23, 2025

The Family History Guide for Gen Societies, Clubs, & SIGs

We recently added a new entry to the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide: Societies, Clubs, SIGs. This page explains how genealogical societies as well as genealogy clubs and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) can benefit from using The Family History Guide. It also has links to key features on the website that support recruitment and member activities for the...

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February 15, 2025

Update: Viewpoint broadcast for The Family History Guide

The schedule for The Family History Guide’s appearance on the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid is finally being set. The 30-second commercial piece of the broadcast package will air nationwide on the Fox Business News channel in April. The commercial with then air in various U.S. regions on several PBS affiliate channels, and the “Demo” (three-minute segment featuring The Family History...

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February 15, 2025

Three more keynote speakers for RootsTech

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech RootsTech.org announces three additional keynote speakers from around the world. Quoting from the announcement: Ysabelle Cuevas Philippines born singer and songwriter Ysabelle Cuevas got her start releasing covers of popular songs on YouTube. Since 2016, her work has amassed over 700 Million streams, with her biggest release...

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February 9, 2025

BYU Family History Library Video: Training with The Family History Guide

Imagine a whole library of family history training tools within your reach, and they are all free of charge! The new video Training with The Family History Guide is now available on the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel, and it has about 800 views so far, in less than two weeks. The video covers these training tools: The video...

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February 9, 2025

FAQs for Class Outlines

The Class Outlines in The Family History Guide are a powerful way to develop family history training, quickly and effectively. The were introduced about 18 months ago and have grown to over 230 in the collection so far. Recently we added an FAQs link in the Class Outlines page that answers questions that trainers might have about developing and using...

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February 3, 2025

FamilySearch 2024 Year in Review

Note: This article appeared previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. FamilySearch 2024 Year in Review FamilySearch.org I realize we are getting well into 2025, but I am always fascinated by what happened in the past year. FamilySearch.org had a banner year and from my standpoint, more than I can quickly learn about is coming in 2025. I do, however,...

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February 3, 2025

Maribel Medina’s RootsTech Classes

Maribel Medina is one of the rising stars in family history education, particularly for Latino audiences and research in Spanish. She has taught numerous Zoom sessions on learning FamilySearch and The Family History Guide, and she is one of the interviewees in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid TV series on genealogy that features The Family History Guide. Maribel will...

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January 19, 2025

Martin Luther King Day and Family History

Today, January 20, celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, a pioneer Black leader and activist who promoted civil rights in the United States and gave his life for the cause. You can read about his life ana accomplishments in many books and websites, including Wikipedia. Part of the awareness he helped to raise is the connection between generations in...

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January 19, 2025

BYU Webinar: New Training Tools in The Family History Guide

On Wed. January 22 I will be presenting a webinar for the popular BYU Family History Library sesires, titled “New Training Tools in The Family History Guide.” The webinar begins at 5 p.m. Mountain Time and is free. To register for the online event, go to this page: To join the webinar, wait until just before the start time and...

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