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November 9, 2025

What’s New with Guided Learning Videos

The work with Guided Learning videos in The Family History Guide rolls on! Here are the latest Guided Learning videos, since our last blog post on October 18: New Inline Links The Guided Learning videos are gradually replacing the Class Oulines in the main pages of The Family History Guide. (Class Outlines are still available from the Trainers menu.) We...

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November 9, 2025

Retrospective: The Family History Guide Interns

As we look back over 10 years-plus with The Family History Guide Association, we have been blessed to work with great interns, who have helped to maintain and grow The Family History Guide website. We have active intern partnerships with Brigham Young University, BYU-Idaho, and Utah Valley University, through their History departments. Inernships are typically 50-120 hours of work, helping...

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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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