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February 10, 2019

New: Feature Slides on the Home Page

A number of our users have asked us what’s new in The Family History Guide. Others who are new to the site have mentioned they would like to see a few key features highlighted. To meet these needs, we are pleased to announce the addition of Feature Slides in the upper-right corner of the Home page. Below is a screen...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
February 4, 2019

RootsTech Presentations from The Family History Guide

It’s hard to believe that RootsTech 2019 is less than three weeks away! The Family History Guide will be busier than ever, with a presentation session on Thursday, Feb. 28 and two sessions on Saturday, Mar. 2 (Discovery Day at Roots Tech). Here’s a brief look at the sessions, from the information featured on the RootsTech Schedule page: The Family...

Family History Activities/RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG
February 4, 2019

What’s New: Updates to the Topics Page and the Vault

The Family History Guide has something for everyone, whatever the skill level or past experience. For those wanting to see at a glance what’s in The Family History Guide, the Topics page can be especially useful. The topics are arranged alphabetically, with corresponding links. The Topics page is in the Intro menu, towards the bottom of the list. For those...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
January 28, 2019

What Do I Do with This?

Editor’s note: This article was previously published on the Sandy Granite family history blog site by Liz Kennington and is used with her permission. Many years ago when my siblings and I were cleaning out my parents’ home, I was entrusted with all things genealogy. At the time I was thrilled about having those items in my possession. Almost 17 years...

Memories
January 20, 2019

Sneak Peek: Online Tracker, Reporting Groups

One of the most popular and powerful features of The Family History Guide website is the Online Tracker. There are currently thousands of people worldwide who are using the Online Tracker to monitor their family history learning and progress. In case you’re not familiar with it, here’s a recap of its main features: Secure login and password management Adding personal...

Learning/Online Tracker
January 20, 2019

New: Come Follow Me Family History Companion Slides

The Come Follow Me Family History Companion has become quite popular in the brief time it has been up on our web site (see our earlier blog post on the Companion for details). It fills a need for including family history activities that are correlated with the Come Follow Me home-centered study from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Training
January 20, 2019

Talking about Blog Posts …

You may have noticed something new in our blog articles… all 230+ of them! There’s a play/pause button in the upper-left corner of each article that enables you to hear the content via text-to-speech translation. Listening to the blog articles can be a benefit for the visually impaired, or for anyone who enjoys a podcast-style experience. The technology comes courtesy of...

Technology/What is new at The FHG
January 14, 2019

30 Things to See

Sometimes trimming down is a good idea. (No, this is not about New Year’s resolutions.) Here, we are talking about a document that was originally titled “50 Things to See and Show in The Family History Guide”. A while back it was reduced from 50 to 40 things, and this past week it was reduced even further to “30 Things...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
January 13, 2019

100 Questions and Answers

Life has a way of working in circles—experiences from the past sometimes come around again in new ways. Such is the case with the “100 Questions and Answers” reference document in the Media page of The Family History Guide. It was created over a year ago but has recently been refreshed with new content to match the updates to the...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
January 7, 2019

Updates to the Certified Trainers Program

We have a great group of Certified Trainers for The Family History Guide, spanning from Australia to Nigeria. These CTs, as we call them, provide valuable training at family history fairs, genealogy libraries, family history centers, and more. In preparation for new growth in the program, we recently we made some notable changes to the Certified Trainer Program and its web...

Training/What is new at The FHG
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