Author: Bob Taylor

Resolving Dead Ends in Trees, Part One

Editor’s Note: Thanks to our guest blogger, Karen Meyer, currently serving as an Area Temple and Family History Consultant in the Scottsdale (AZ) Coordinating Council, for this blog post. In Part One,  she outlines some common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them.   Problem #1: Too many Census Data Sheets for the same year. One...

The Family History Guide: Essentials for Everyone

One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of The Family History Guide is that it offers something useful and important to just about everyone. We’ve done a bit of thinking on this topic and come up with a list of 10 family history “audiences” and what might appeal to them in The Family History Guide. Some of us, of...

Facebook and The Family History Guide

These days, Facebook has become a go-to choice for collaborating on family history. The Family History Guide is an active player in the Facebook world, sharing the joys of family history. Here are some of the ways we are involved with Facebook: Main Page Our main Facebook page is approaching 2,000 likes and follows, from many locations around the world....

New: Subheadings in Choices

You probably know The Family History Guide routine pretty well by now: Projects are divided into Goals, which are divided into Choices, which contain steps (and article and video links). That covers the bases pretty well, except for one item: sometimes there may be more than one topic in a Choice. This tends to be the case with some of...

The Family History Guide Presentations at RootsTech

RootsTech, the biggest genealogy and family history conference in the world, has announced its schedule for 2019. The Family History Guide Association is pleased to announce that it will be presenting two identical sessions at different times at the conference. Here are the details: “The Family History Guide: Accelerating Your Learning and Research” – RT1119 Thursday, Feb. 28 – 3...

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon Smile

If you’ve done any shopping on Amazon, you;re probably familiar with the Amazon Smile program. That’s where you can designate a charity of your choice to receive a percentage donation with each purchase you make. The Family History Guide is part of Amazon Smile, so you can designate it as your preferred charity for Amazon purchases. In fact, November is...

GuideStar Platinum for The Family History Guide

We just received the Platinum rating on GuideStar, which is the highest rating that GuideStar gives.  As you probably know, The Family History Guide Association is a non-profit charitable organization. Shortly after we achieved that status, over a year ago, we became aware of the GuideStar organization. They act as an online directory for non-profit organizations, providing information about the...

Meet the New Activities Index

The Activities section of The Family History Guide is one of its most popular, and it has grown significantly in the past few months. Across the four main sections, we now offer nearly 300 fun and engaging family history activities for everyone. Here’s the breakdown by number of activities: Family—66 Individuals—80 Youth—65 Kids Corner—65 And more to come! With that...

Introducing Goal Quizzes

In the Trainers menu of The Family History Guide, you’ll find a page for Quizzes. These are interactive tests you can take to check on your knowledge of family history topics. To date, this page has included the following kinds of quizzes: Overview — covers the basics of the entire site for The Family History Guide (20 questions) FamilySearch — quizzes...

New Fan Chart Options in FamilySearch

Recently FamilySearch added some new options to its fan chart view. These options have been part of the Consultant Planner for some time, but now they are being made available to all Family Tree users. We’ve updated The Family History Guide with instructions on using these new options, in Project 1: Family Tree, Goal 5: Alternate Views, Choice B. Here’s a...