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April 14, 2019

Discover, Gather, and Connect Your Family

At RootsTech 2019, Scott and Angelle Anderson shared the stage with Merrill White of FamilySearch to deliver a powerful presentation. They demonstrated how engaging in meaningful family history activities can connect families together in love. Scott, our Public Relations Director, and Angelle, our Marketing Director, highlighted activities from The Family History Guide, while Merrill introduced the new In-Home Activities on...

Church Of Jesus Christ/Family History Activities/FamilySearch/RootsTech/Uncategorized
April 8, 2019

The Family History Guide and the Family Tree Mobile App

We are excited to announce a new addition to The Family History Guide: there is now a Project for the Family Tree Mobile App from FamilySearch. You can find the new Family Tree App Project at the bottom of the FamilySearch drop-down menu. Part One This new Project is being published in two parts. Currently, Part One has the following...

FamilySearch/Technology/What is new at The FHG
March 30, 2019

My RootsTech Experience, by James Tanner

My RootsTech 2019 Experience Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. https://www.rootstech.org/ I am fairly certain that my RootsTech 2019 experience was far different than nearly everyone else attending the Conference. I have been attending the RootsTech Conferences since the very first one in 2011 except...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
March 30, 2019

Two New Show-Me Videos for The Family History Guide

If you are a visual learner, chances are good that you have seen some of the videos produced by The Family History Guide Association, or least some of the videos that we link to, from our website. Currently we link to over 850 videos in The Family History Guide, ranging from about 40 seconds to 90 minutes in length. We...

Learning
March 30, 2019

New from the FamilySearch Learning Center

FamilySearch has added quite a few training videos in the past few months to their Learning Center. We have gone through the list and selected over 50 new videos to link from The Family History Guide. As you would imagine, we have placed them on our site with “just-in-time” learning in mind—you find them where you need them. Below is...

Country Research/FamilySearch/Learning/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
March 25, 2019

Introducing the Countries Knowledgebase

In a recent blog post we announced the first Knowledgebase for The Family History Guide. It covers general and United States-specific research, and as we mentioned, it is a work in progress. There are currently about 60 entries, with many more to come. You can access this Knowledgebase from any of the Partner menus (FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Findmypast) or...

Country Research/Navigation/What is new at The FHG
March 18, 2019

Update: Online Tracker Reporting System

At RootsTech 2019 a few weeks ago, we gave a brief demo of the upcoming Online Reporting System for The Family History Guide, and it generated quite a bit of interest, especially among family history consultants. As described in the demo, consultants will be able to create reporting groups and run online reports to show totals for skill levels achieved...

What is new at The FHG
March 18, 2019

Sources, Hints, and Record Searches

We recently made some important updates to a few of the Goals in The Family History Guide. They have to do with record sources, hints and searches in FamilySearch Family Tree. Here is a summary of the changes that were made: Project 1: FamilySearch, Goal 8—Adding Sources Choice B: “Browse and sort existing sources in your family tree.” This updates...

FamilySearch/Navigation/Records/What is new at The FHG
March 11, 2019

Announcing The Family History Guide Knowledgebase

Two of the main purposes of The Family History Guide are to accelerate your family history learning and research. What better way to assist with those goals, than with a handy reference that offers definitions, tips, guidelines and more. We are excited to announce the first release of our Knowledgebase for The Family History Guide, which covers general research principles...

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