March 2020 – The Family History Guide Blog

March 29, 2020

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

Last week we featured an article written by James Tanner about the new Goldie May research assistant. It’s a powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension that helps you track your research progress on FamilySearch. This week we are excited to announce that Goldie May has been selected as an Authorized Training Partner for The Family History Guide Association. What This Means...

FamilySearch/Training/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG

March 29, 2020

The World at Your Fingertips

From Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association: What to do … what to do … what to do? If you are self-quarantined and have kids and youth to entertain, The Family History Guide can help. Did you know that you can go on a world tour, right from your own home or apartment? Kids can visit...

Country Research/Families/Family History Activities/Learning

March 29, 2020

Retired Pages in The Family History Guide

Following suggestions from FamilySearch, we are retiring the Train Consultants and Leadership Resources pages in The Family History Guide. This is to avoid any possible misunderstanding about providing guidance in callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch continues to approve The Family History Guide as a training resource (see the link at the bottom of our...

Training

March 22, 2020

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Recently we changed up the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide a bit. We have consolidated a few of the entries, and we have introduced the Trainer’s Corner, a place to find great tips and resources for training. Here’s a look at what you’ll find in the new Trainer’s Corner page: Instructor Prep and Delivery This section combines several...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 22, 2020

Goldie May, Your Research Assistant for FamilySearch

Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goldie-may/dhmlghokhgphidijmacfnmegmkkhpdik Goldie May is a free, new, innovative Chrome extension that guides users through basic genealogical research. You may or may not be acquainted with Chrome extensions but they are extremely useful and I have some I use every day as I...

FamilySearch/Research/U.S. Research

March 22, 2020

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. After living through the effects of last week’s announcements about the Coronavirus COVID-19 and the fact that many schools across the United States are now temporarily closed, it seems to me to be a natural extension of the school...

General/The Family History Guide Association/Training

March 16, 2020

Introducing the Sample Outlines

In an earlier article, Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines, we described the concept of using a sample course outline to prepare family history courses. The Sample Outline can be modified to suit your needs as you teach family history topics right from The Family History Guide website. We have recently added several Sample Outlines to The Family...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 15, 2020

We’re Still Standing!

From our COO, Bob Ives: With all the unsettling things going on in today’s world, I find it comforting to be able to think about something other than the current events of the day. Yes, that can be hard if you are wondering what tomorrow may bring or you are sequestered or quarantined. Focusing on something that can be calming...

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

March 15, 2020

Embedded Videos in The Family History Guide

When you browse through different Projects in The Family History Guide, you’ll see that we now have embedded YouTube videos that you can watch right on the page. (The United States Project has a lot of these, for example.) The embedded videos on the page can also be expanded to full-screen mode. Below is an example of a page with...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

March 9, 2020

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines

I recently posted the following in our Facebook Trainers & Consultants page: “Last week I taught a one-hour class on newspaper research at our local family history center. I was filling in for an instructor who couldn’t make it. I had a few days to prepare, but rather than put together a slide deck I decided to teach the class...

Training/What is new at The FHG

Monthly Archive: March, 2020

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

The World at Your Fingertips

Retired Pages in The Family History Guide

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Goldie May, Your Research Assistant for FamilySearch

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Introducing the Sample Outlines

We’re Still Standing!

Embedded Videos in The Family History Guide

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines