July 2023 – The Family History Guide Blog

July 30, 2023

BYU-I Pathways and The Family History Guide: Practice Exercise Initiative

BYU-Idaho and BYU Pathways Worldwide have teamed up to provide a popular Family History Research curriculum, available online and quite affordable (as low as $81 per credit). As noted in an earlier blog post on this site, this curriculum refers to The Family History Guide as an important resource in its downloadable course handbook. We are excited to announce a...

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

July 30, 2023

New QRB Video: Research in Italy

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Starting Your Genealogical Research in Italy, by James Tanner. You can view it in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Italy country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more QRB videos coming your way!

Country Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

July 23, 2023

Eight is Great! The Family History Guide Turns 8

It seems the time has gone by so quickly since those days in late 2014, when The Family History Guide started as a design on paper … and now it has website visitors from over 150 countries. July 25, 2015 was the day the website officially launched, and so we are turning 8 years old this week. Over the years,...

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

July 23, 2023

Researching the Pioneers

July 24 is the day the Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley in the United States. Genealogist James Tanner recently recorded a video for the BYU Family History Library, titled Crossing the Plains: Researching American Pioneers. This video covers the Oregon Trail, Mexican War, Mormon Trail, California Gold Rush, and much more. A link to the video is...

Research/U.S. Research

July 17, 2023

New QRB Video: Research in Sweden

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Researching Genealogical Records in Sweden, by James Tanner. You can view it in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Sweden country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more QRB videos coming your way!

YouTube

July 17, 2023

Update: More Practice Exercises Are Here

We are continuing to add Practice Exercises for country pages in The Family History Guide. As explained in our earlier blog post, the Practice Exercises are indicated by a colored dot: green for beginning level, blue for intermediate, and brown for advanced. Each exercise has open/close links that display a research statement, hints, and answers. At the time of this...

Country Research/Training

July 10, 2023

FamilySearch Places in The Family History Guide

We have recently added over 300 links in The Family History Guide to FamilySearch Places, which is a wonderful tool that helps you learn about and locate place names on a map, all over the world. These link additions include over 60 countries, all 50 U.S. states, 40 England counties, and 10 Canada provinces. A number of the pages have...

FamilySearch

July 10, 2023

The History of Artificial Intelligence and What Will Happen to Genealogical Research as a Consequence: Part One

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Image Created by Microsoft’s Image Creator Somewhere between appearing in Isaac Asimov’s book, I, Robot, in 1950 and the latest StarWars movie or series, artificial intelligence became a threat to civilization as we know it for newscasters and pundits around the world. In a class at a...

Research/Technology

July 2, 2023

Tracing Your Ancestors in Colonial America

As we celebrate Independence Day in the United States in the next few days, let’s remember our ancestors who lived in British Colonial America (what the United States used to be). There are some helpful resources in The Family History Guide to get you started or help you further your research, as you discover your ancestors’ lives. Let’s take a...

U.S. Research