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December 17, 2018

Training Tips from Our Facebook Group

If you’re a member of the Trainers/Consultants/Directors Facebook Group for The Family History Guide, you’re likely familiar with the weekly “Training Tips” feature. At the time of this writing, there are 18 tip articles so far on the Facebook page. We’ve decided to make these available on the main website as well, with one difference: new Training Tips articles will...

Training

December 10, 2018

Handling Dead Ends in Your Trees, Part Two

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 Two, she outlines other common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them. You can read the Part One article here. Problem #5: Is it possible...

Case Studies/U.S. Research

December 10, 2018

Update: Streaming and Recording at the Sandy Granite FHC

The Sandy Granite family history center is now the third-busiest family history center in the Salt Lake area, following the main Family History Library downtown and the Riverton Family History Library. In an earlier blog post, Setting Up for Success, we described how the arrangement of computers and seating leads to an optimized learning environment. An interesting development has been...

Learning/Training

December 3, 2018

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...

Ancestry/Records/U.S. Research

December 1, 2018

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...

Ancestry/Country Research/FamilySearch/General/Navigation/Records/Technology/Training/U.S. Research

November 18, 2018

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....

Social Media

November 18, 2018

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...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

November 12, 2018

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...

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

November 12, 2018

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...

General/The Family History Guide Association

November 4, 2018

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...

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

Author: Bob Taylor