December 2017 – Page 2 – The Family History Guide Blog

December 18, 2017

Coming Soon: Features Help

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a handy “cheat-sheet” page for the cool features in The Family History Guide? Well, that page is on its way – it will be finished in a few days. The text is pretty much done, and it’s just waiting for some graphics and a few finishing touches. When finished, the Features Help page...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

December 17, 2017

Activity Ideas for Collecting and Sharing Family Photos (including MyHeritage Slideshows)

Looking for a fun family history centered activity for the holidays? Gathering, identifying, labeling, and sharing photos from the past (along with the stories behind them) can be an exciting, unifying experience that can connect your family in remarkable ways. For example, if you have photos in your MyHeritage gallery, consider sharing them in slideshows. This is a great way...

Family History Activities/Memories/MyHeritage/The Family History Guide Association

December 17, 2017

Presenting The Family History Guide to Others: 40 Things to See

For trainers, one of the unusual aspects of presenting The Family History Guide website to others is that there is no slide deck involved; you simply show and explain the website. That leads to a few questions: What elements do you show on the website? What sequence do you follow on the site? What are some good talking points for what...

Training/What is new at The FHG

December 15, 2017

The Church Announces Major Changes for Youth Participating in Baptisms for the Dead

The Church recently announced that there have been major (and amazingly wonderful, in my opinion) changes for all priests holding the Aaronic priesthood and young women with limited-use temple recommends! This news, according to lds.org, expands opportunities and will be directed by temple presidencies in the 159 operating LDS temples worldwide. The First Presidency wrote a letter to general authorities, area authorities, stake, mission and...

LDS

December 10, 2017

Open or Close: The Sequel

Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves! 🙂 The Open / Close Choices were so popular that we added buttons at the top of each Project page, so you can close all the Choices on the page, or open all of them. The Default is to have them all open at first. Here’s a partial example of the buttons, in the header...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

December 4, 2017

Family History Ideas to “Light The World” through service to others

The Family History Guide Association invites you to join us in serving others during the month of December in a special initiative sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints entitled, Light The World – 25 Ways in 25 Days: “The teachings of Jesus Christ show us a pattern of service for our lives. Apply these 25 teachings over the 25 days...

Family History Activities/Memories

December 2, 2017

New Category for Posts: LDS Topics

If you’re interested in the LDS aspect of family history, you can now find posts about LDS topics on our blog site. These posts do not appear on the main page of the blog; they are in a separate section (similar to how LDS topics are addressed on the LDS page of The Family History Guide, not in the main...

General

December 1, 2017

Open or Close: Your Choice

As you may have discovered, there is a lot of great information in The Family History Guide. We recently added a new feature that enables you to see less or more information in a Project page – you can now close a Choice to hide the information below it, or open any Choice you have closed. Example Here’s an example...