The Family History Guide Blog

September 14, 2025

GoFundMe Fundraiser for The Family History Guide

Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association, a non-profit charitable organization, is organizing a GoFundMe fundraiser for The Family History Guide. Here is the information about The Family History Guide from the GoFundMe website.

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September 14, 2025

Learning about Chrome Flex OS

Chrome Flex OS is a lightweight operating system from Google that can give new life to older computers. It’s oriented towards streaming and internet browsing, and so it doesn’t have a lot of the storage and processing capabilities included with the Windows or Mac OS. However, Chrome Flex OS can be an attractive alternative for users who may not be...

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September 6, 2025

What I Learned from 1418 Consultations for FamilySearch

Note: This article has been updated to reflect that FamilySearch consultations have not been discontinued. During the past five years, I have scheduled 1418 online consultations for FamilySearch.org. These consultations originated from the Salt Lake City FamilySearch Library website. There were dozens of people volunteering to respond to the consultation requests, mostly Church Service Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of...

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August 31, 2025

New: Guided Learning Video Series

We are excited to introduce a new series of videos for The Family History Guide—Guided Learning. As of this writing there are seven videos, ranging from an overview of the series to online search techniques. Each video is accompanied by a personal guide who leads the learner through the course material. About Guided Learning The Guided Learning videos focus mostly...

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August 31, 2025

Getting Started Videos, in Spanish

Last week we published a number of new videos on our Get Started page. The first two videos also have Spanish translations, but these are not translated just captions: the on-screen narrator speaks clear and authentic Spanish. Here are the two Spanish videos for your convenience, and more translated videos are on the way.

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August 24, 2025

New: Get Started Videos on the Home Page

For quite some we have had a series of slides in the upper-right corner of our home page, titled “Inside the Guide.” These slides provide links to some interesting features of The Family History Guide. Last week we introduced a new Welcome video for the site and inserted it as the first slide option. Now we are excited to introduce...

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August 24, 2025

Booth Magic: Behind the Scenes at RootsTech

As we celebrate our tenth year, we can’t help but mention some of the unsung heroes of our journey. Working quietly behind the scenes is a group of dedicated people who are instrumental in creating and assembling our RootsTech booth. Each year our booth gets larger, and the setup team manages to pull off a three-day miracle. Planning for the physical booth starts eight...

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August 17, 2025

New: Welcome Video

We just created a new welcome video for The Family History Guide website. It’s short – about 90 seconds in length – and engaging. You can find it on our YouTube Channel, and we have added it as the first video in the “Inside the Guide” section of the home page (upper right). The video is also included below for...

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August 17, 2025

Handling Record Problems

“It says so in that record!” … but is it really so? Sometimes the information we find in a record might not be a sure thing. Goal 7 of Project 4: Discover in the Family History Guide sheds some welcome light on potential problems with records. Here is a brief summary of the links to essential articles and videos you’ll...

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