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March 14, 2021

New on Our YouTube Channel: Language Playlists

As you probably know, most of the videos in our YouTube Channel have formatted subtitles available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino. You can also get unformatted subtitles (without punctuation, editing improvements, etc.) for any of the 100 or so languages supported by Google Translate. Recently we have taken language support a step further, by...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
March 14, 2021

Using the Activities Planning Sheet

There is a new feature in the Activities menu of The Family History Guide—it’s the Activities Planning Sheet. This is a Google sheet that you can transfer to your device to help you plan and track family history activities. You can make a copy of the sheet and save it to your Google Drive, or you can download it as...

Family History Activities/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG
March 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Intern, Julia Cook

We are excited to welcome our newest Intern for The Family History Guide Association, Julia Cook. She is comes to us recommended by the Student Development Department at Brigham Young University. Julia has already begun working on evaluating content links in The Family History Guide, to optimize how content is arranged between the main sections of the website and the...

The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
March 7, 2021

Revisiting the Vault

In The Family History Guide, the Vault is somewhat like the back room of a bookstore: you’ll find some extra treasures of learning there, with a little bit of digging. Recently we have made that “digging” process a bit easier with the following enhancements—we hope you enjoy the enhanced Vault page! Improved Organization We have moved a few links to...

What is new at The FHG
March 7, 2021

Family History for Youth – Upcoming Class

Angelle Anderson will present a free class for the Sandy Granite family history center on how to get youth involved in family history and loving it! Here’s the information for the upcoming class: Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9 Time: 7 p.m. Mountain Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373988340?pwd=bjMxcVB5Y3pJSzExTCtFbGxJcWt1UT09 If you are unable to attend, you can view a recording of the class on the Sandy...

Family History Activities/Training
March 7, 2021

Goldie May Updates

The popular Goldie May extension for the Chrome browser now includes a few updates worth noting. Here’s a summary of what has been added and updated in Goldie May recently: New look to the tabs: The “Guidance” and “Your Research” tabs and their information have been streamlined. Research Log updates: Improvements were made to note taking,  and a summary/abstract feature has...

What is new at The FHG
February 28, 2021

RootsTech Recap for The Family History Guide

Saturday evening on Feb. 27 marked the close of RootsTech Connect 2021. Although the event has come to an end, it will continue to live on, virtually. The numerous video sessions that were recorded will be available for free, for a full year. More about that later in this article … First, some numbers: Stats for Nerds A few days...

RootsTech/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
February 28, 2021

Partnership Videos: FamilySearch and The Family History Guide

RootsTech this year was a video extravaganza, with hundreds of videos to choose from on a wide variety of family history topics. There were keynote addresses, class sessions, panel discussions, an Expo Hall, and more. The Family History Guide Association was privileged to work with FamilySearch in producing two special videos that were featured in the Beginner’s learning track at...

Family History Activities/Research/RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
February 28, 2021

What’s New in The Family History Guide – 3/1/2021

February was a very busy month for The Family History Guide., capped off by a highly successful RootsTech experience. Here is a summary list of updates to The Family History Guide website as of Mar. 1, 2021: 2/27 – Added return links from Vault categories to Main pages in the website. 2/26 – Added links to FAQs for ordinances in...

What is new at The FHG
February 21, 2021

Preview: RootsTech Connect and The Family History Guide

RootsTech Connect 2021 is almost here … just a few more days, and the excitement is already building! The virtual doors open to the world at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Why at 5 p.m.? Because that will actually be 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25 in New Zealand, for example. Speaking of time zones and the worldwide audience,...

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