This past week I met online with 50 leaders from the National Genealogical Society, through their OrgConnects! program. OrgConnects is a new venture that enables their leadership to meet and discuss important topics across organizations. Thursday evening was a presentation on how training tools in The Family Histgory Guide can help leaders and members accelerate their training and learning efforts in genealogy. The partnership with The Family History Guide Association and the National Genealogical Socety provides for free presentations about The Family Histgory Guide and its learning tools.

This presentation focused on Practice Exercises, Class Outlines, Quizzes, and the new  Online Tracker Sheets. and it was well-received. Below is an outline of the topics that were covered in the training session:

Website review (10 min.)

• Home page – how to access
• Top menus – how to use
• Search bar – how to use
• Intro Video – resource for a more complete review
• Project 4, Research Goals – basic to expert skills in research
• Countries menu – how to use

Practice Exercises (5 min.) –

• Web page – explain purpose of Practice Exercises
• Samples – walk through several examples online
• Index – how to find Practice Exercises on the site

Class Outlines (15 min.) –

• Web page – explain purpose of Class Outlines
• Prep – how to study and customize a Class Outline
• Demo – showing the Class Outline in Presenter mode

Quizzes (5 min.)

• Web page – how to find quizzes
• Demo – walk through a quiz

Online Tracker Sheets (10 min.) –

• Web page – explain Online Tracker database vs. Google Sheets
• Platforms sheet – show the features and how to customize
• Countries sheets – walk through one or two sheets