The Family History Guide Blog – … See the latest news about your free learning and training site for family history!

March 23, 2025

RootsTech 2025 Webinar: Training with The Family History Guide

Rootstech 2025 is now in the books, but the good memories still linger. I was able to present a webinar at Roots on Training with The Family History Guide. The webinar is designed for anyone who may be doing family history training or mentoring, such as family history consultants, trainers, librarians, and genealogical society leaders. It also provides some key...

RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 23, 2025

Update: Google Translate Buttons

For a number of years, we have had Select Language buttons for Google Translate on the website. This allows you to translate the site into any of the 100 or so languages that Google Translate supports. Recently there has been an issue on the site with the buttons not always behaving reliably. Sometimes they were switching to horizontal view instead...

Technology/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 15, 2025

RootsTech 2025: A Photo Gallery

In past articles we shared some thoughts about our experiences at RootsTech 2025. Here’s a final thought by one of our great booth volunteers for The Family History Guide, followed by an assortment of photos that capture some of the memories of The Family History Guide Association at RootsTech 2025 … From Kathryn – “I loved working in the Family...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 15, 2025

New in the Menu: Research Skills

For those who are new to The Family History Guide website, it might be a bit tricky knowing that the topics for research skills are found in Project 4, for each Learning Path. So we have added “Research Skills” in the main menu to make it easier to get to them. (You can still find them using the Learning Paths...

Research/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 9, 2025

A Look Back at RootsTech 2025 …

RootsTech 2025 concluded on Saturday, and from the perspective of The Family History Guide it was a great experience. In a previous blog post we outlined the webinar and speaker sessions by members and partners of The Family History Guide Management Team. Those sessions went well and were well-attended. For example, Miles Meyer’s webinar on U.S. census records had over...

RootsTech/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 9, 2025

Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Genealogy at RootsTech 2025

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. See CRAIGEN.org The Coalition for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Genealogy will have a panel discussion at RootsTech 2025. The presentation will take place Friday in Ballroom B at Salt Palace and will also be live-streamed at 4:30 p.m. MT. There is a link for submitting...

artificial intelligence/RootsTech Comments: 0

March 2, 2025

RootsTech 2025 Presenters from The Family History Guide Assn.

This year at RootsTech we are pleased to announce a variety of webinars, classes, and online videos that will be presented by members of the Management Team of The Family History Guide Association. Here’s a list of what to look for, either in person at the Salt Palace or online (listed in Mountain Time, March 5-8): We hope you enjoy...

RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

March 2, 2025

Update: New Class Outlines

Over the last few months we have added the following new Class Outlines for trainers and instructors: There are now 240 Class Outlines in The Family History Guide. You can access them here or from individual Goals in Country pages and Learning Path pages. More Class Outlines are on the way!

Training/What is new at The FHG Comments: 0

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...

RootsTech/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG

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...

Training/What is new at The FHG