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March 9, 2020

More from RootsTech 2020

As mentioned in last week’s blog post, RootsTech 2020 was an unforgettable experience for The Family History Guide Association. Here are a few extra items about our RootsTech experience that you might enjoy: Google Photo Album Our Marketing Director, Angelle Anderson, was busy catching the RootsTech action in photos and videos, Here’s a link to the Google Photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2dTg3jrZUqvtJnsE7...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
March 8, 2020

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Over the past few weeks we’ve added several new Choices and one new Goal in The Family History Guide. Here’s a recap of the key additions to the site, with links provided to the supporting content in The Family History Guide: FamilySearch “Where Am I From?” FS Project 4: Goal 10, Choices A, B, C, and D. The “Where Am...

Research/What is new at The FHG
March 2, 2020

RootsTech Recap from The Family History Guide Association

This was the fifth year for The Family History Guide Association at RootsTech, and by all accounts, RootsTech 2020 was the best so far for us. Here are some brief descriptions of what the experience was like: Demos We gave over 1,000 demos of The Family History Guide at our workstations over the span of the conference, and they were...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
March 1, 2020

Historical Images Tool Finds Unindexed Records in FamilySearch Catalog

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by James Tanner in the Genealogy’s Star blog and is used with the author’s permission. https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/explore-historical-images/ To begin discussing the new Historical Images Tool, I think it is a good idea to know what it does and does not do. To understand what it does do, you need to understand why the tool...

Records/Research
March 1, 2020

How Complete Were the US Federal Censuses?

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by James Tanner in the Genealogy’s Star blog and is used with the author’s permission. https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/wright-hunt.pdf Gaining a historical perspective is difficult. Very few genealogists have an extensive background in history and particularly the history of the places where their ancestors lived and died. For example, let’s suppose that in the year 2020...

Research/U.S. Research
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