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September 4, 2023

On Vacation

We’re taking a brief break to enjoy Labor Day and the end of summer … look for our blog posts to resume next week, on September 11. See you then!

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August 27, 2023

Getting Excited About Family History!

“Our Turtle House” is a popular and inspirational YouTube channel with over 35,000 subscribers. On August 20, Mark Williams hosted a livestream session with family history experts Shenley Puterbaugh and Scott and Angelle Anderson (the latter two who are members of The Family History Guide team). In the session, the guest speakers share tips and suggestions for how to make...

Families/Family History Activities/The Family History Guide Association/YouTube

August 27, 2023

5-Minute Features: QUIKLinks

One of the most popular features in The Family History Guide is QUIKLinks, which put record collections from multiple platforms at your fingertips. There are QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FIndmypast in many locations in The Family History Guide. We recently published a new 5-Minute Features video on our YouTube Channel for learning about QUIKLinks. You can watch it...

Records/Training/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

August 20, 2023

FamilySearch Training in English & Spanish, with The Family History Guide

At RootsTech 2023 we met Maribel Camarillo Gomez, who has been actively training visitors on family history at the San Diego FamilySearch Center. She helped out at our booth in the Expo Hall, helping RootsTech attendees learn more about The Family History Guide. Maribel recently put together a great training course for FamilySearch and family history basics, featuring The Family...

FamilySearch/The Family History Guide Association/Training

August 13, 2023

New on Our YouTube Channel: 5-Minute Features

Today we are introducing a new playlist on our YouTube Channel. It’s called “5-Minute Features,” and it will have a number of short videos that describe how to use important features of The Family History Guide, each in about five minutes or less. The first video in the playlist has been uploaded—it’s Record Search Practice Exercises. This video gets you...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube

August 6, 2023

What’s New in The Family History Guide – Aug. 2023

Summer is great time for vacations, family trips, family history – and for updating The Family History Guide. Here is a brief summary of what we’ve been up to lately, with content updates on the website: QUIKLinks—We’ve added several hundred QUIKLinks to record collections from FamilySearch, Ancestry, and MyHeritage. These can be found at the end of many Choices in...

General/What is new at The FHG

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