Two of the main purposes of The Family History Guide are to accelerate your family history learning and research. What better way to assist with those goals, than with a handy reference that offers definitions, tips, guidelines and more. We are excited to announce the first release of our Knowledgebase for The Family History Guide, which covers general research principles and United States research. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress: we will be adding more topics and content as time goes on.

In the drop-down menus, there are several places where you can find the Knowledgebase:

• FamilySearch menu, below “Discover”
• Ancestry menu, below “Research”
• MyHeritage menu, below “Research”
• Findmypast menu, below “Research”
• Countries menu, below “United States”

Samples

The Knowledgebase is an alphabetized page with Topics you can open and close, either individually or all at once. Here’s a partial sample with the Topics closed:

And here’s a sample with the Topics open:

You can see there is already a lot of useful information in the Knowledgebase … and we are just getting started! It can be used as a standalone learning tool or in conjunction with any of the Topics, which are found in The Family History Guide.  You can click a link with green text to open the corresponding topic in the website. Citation sources are also provided for the Knowledgebase entries.

Coming Soon

Next up is the International Knowledgebase for The Family History Guide, which will contain research tips and guidelines for all country pages in The Family History Guide.