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June 21, 2020

A Gift from My Dad

It’s early on a Saturday morning in Southern California, in the late 1960’s. The aroma of fresh waffles is already starting to fill the house as I peek into the kitchen. My brother’s baseball card collection covers about half the table (and Mom will make him clean it up before breakfast). I can already guess where Dad is: he’s probably...

Families/Family/Memories/Research

June 14, 2020

New in The Family History Guide: Link Titles

If you have spent some time looking through the Country and Ethnic pages in The Family History Guide, you’ll realize that there is a lot of great material there. There are thousands of links to articles, videos, websites, and research databases, organized by Goals and Choices. Several months ago we added a number of intermediate headings in Choices. These split...

Research/What is new at The FHG

June 7, 2020

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Here’s a recap of the latest happenings with The Family History Guide: 1. QUIKLinks Reach the 5,000 Milestone Recently we added about 50 new QUIKLinks in The Family History Guide to record collections from FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast. That puts the total number at over 5,000 (and growing). You can find QUIKLinks where you see the lightning-bolt icons in...

What is new at The FHG

May 31, 2020

The Family History Guide on Facebook

As you probably know, The Family History Guide has two associated Facebook pages: Our public page, at https://www.facebook.com/TheFamilyHistoryGuide A private Group for trainers and consultants, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefhguidetraining/ If you are interested in joining the Group, please request membership. For the past few weeks, we have been adding helpful family history tips to these pages, with a wide variety of topics...

Facebook/Research/Social Media/What is new at The FHG

May 24, 2020

Memorial Day: Remembering Those We Lost

My brother-in-law, Mark Sargeant, served in the United States Army for over 20 years as a Military Intelligence officer. His duties took him and his family to Arizona, Germany, Georgia, Kansas, and Nebraska. He retired in late 1999 and worked for 10 years for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, assisting with the security of missionaries in Africa...

Memories/U.S. Research

May 17, 2020

The Family History Guide Twitter Page Takes Flight

Due to various reasons, the Twitter page for The Family History Guide has not seen much activity for the last few months. Until now … We have relaunched our Twitter page at a new location: https://twitter.com/seethefhguide We are redoubling our efforts to provide timely and useful tweets, with links and photos. In The Family History Guide, you can find our...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG

May 17, 2020

Spring Cleaning with The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few months. We are bringing you more content, more links, and more country pages for example. Also, website platforms such as FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast continue to make updates to their websites as well. So now is a good time for some “spring cleaning” on The...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

May 10, 2020

Happy Mother’s Day from The Family History Guide Association

The Family History Guide Association would like to send our very best wishes to all the mothers and women who make our world a better place for all of us. We love you all! A Video from The Family History Guide Association We hope you enjoy this brief video as a small gift to each of you. Thanks for nurturing...

What is new at The FHG

May 3, 2020

Update: Sample Outlines for Training

We’ve recently added the following Sample Outlines for training with The Family History Guide: FS2.5-Uploading-Tagging-Photos FS2.7-Documents-Stories-Audio FS3.1-Descendancy-Research These are Word files that you can download and customize as needed. More Sample Outlines will be added in the coming weeks. You can find the current list in Sample Outlines, in the Trainers menu. Updated Headings We have also updated the...

Training/What is new at The FHG