We have been busy—no surprise there—updating content and features in The Famiy History Guide website. Here’s a roundup of some of the updates you’ll find on the site, as well as a brief look at what’s coming in future months.

• Practice Exercises: There are now over 700 Practices Exercises, each with research problems to solve, hints for record searches, and answers. Latest additions include exercises for U.S. states from Montana to South Dakota, alphabetically.
• QUIKLinks: We added about 50 new QUIKLinks from Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage, bringing the total number to almost 5,000 across the country pages.
• Class Outlines: The newest Class Outlines include Austria, Belgium (2), Brazil (2), Canada (2), Chile (2), and Colombia. You can see QUIKLink coverage at a glance in this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8YRrJXc1ofmzF2YGu1FL1plt0qzTG4o-rW4RBvS5lc/
• Consolidating Goals: We recently removed Goals in country pages and states for Search Records and Websites. These Goals were limited in scope, and most of their content is available in the first Goal of each country and state page.
• Weekly Family History Activities: Although the schedule for 2024 is complete, we continue to update each Weekly Lesson with improved content and additional links to enahce the Come, Follow Me experience for family history.

What’s Next …

• The Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid video series about The Family History Guide will air on PBS television this winter, and we will include versions on our website and in social media.
• We will be doing a huge expansion in the number of available Class Outlines, with up to 150 new outlines available by RootsTech 2025.
• We will begin adding Show Me slides for Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast, to provide step-by-step instructions for learning those platforms with a visual approach.