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October 21, 2018

Introducing the Certified Trainers Program

We are excited to announce a new development for The Family History Guide Association—the addition of the Certified Trainers program. You can find information about it in the Certified Trainers pages on the website. Below are some FAQs about Certified Trainers and the new program. Q1: What is a Certified Trainer? A1: A Certified Trainer is basically a “local” trainer...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG
October 21, 2018

What’s New in The Family History Guide Facebook Pages

As you are probably aware, we have two Facebook pages: one is for the Main page of The Family History Guide, and the other is for the Trainers, Consultants, and Directors page. The latter is a closed Group, but anyone with an interest in family history training is welcome to join. Below are some of the features we have instituted...

Country Research/Social Media/Training
October 14, 2018

Your 15 Minutes Are Here …

One of the most common reasons people use for not getting involved in family history is, “I don’t have the time.” Yet if you ask busy people if they could spare 15 minutes a day—or every other day—for something very important, chances are they’d say yes. That’s where the “15 Minutes” approach can be helpful. We recently added a “15...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/What is new at The FHG
October 14, 2018

Spotting QUIKLinks in the Header

In the previous format for country pages, all the Goals were in the same page. While this made for some lengthy scrolling at times, it was relatively easy to find QUIKLinks to records; you’d see them as you scrolled. In the new format with one Goal per page, it became difficult to tell which Goals (and pages) had QUIKLinks—you would...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
October 13, 2018

Farewell to Find-A-Record

It’s with a note of sadness that we bid a fond farewell to Find-A-Record, one the most popular and effective online tools for FamilySearch Family Tree. In Project 1: Family Tree (FS) of The Family History Guide, Goal 9 was dedicated to learning and using Find-A-Record, which helped you find data problems, research opportunities, and possible duplicates across your family...

FamilySearch/Technology
October 7, 2018

Setting Up for Success

Note: Most of this article was published previously in our Trainers, Consultants, and Directors Facebook page. It is republished here due to the increased interest it has generated for trainers and learners. When we teach traditional family history computer classes, we typically set up the class with a presentation screen at the front and rows of computers filling the rest...

Technology/Training
October 7, 2018

Update: Tracker Links and County Links

We’ve recently added a number of useful links to The Family history Guide, in two categories: Word Tracker sheets County resources for U.S. state pages Word Trackers The Word Tracker sheets list all the Goals and Choices for each Project in The Family History Guide. We have added links to each Goal title in the Trackers, so you can go...

Navigation/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
September 30, 2018

Updates to the Home Page and Get Started Page

We’ve introduced a few changes to the Home page and Get Started page recently. The goal is to simplify the flow a bit, especially for those who are new to the website. The Home page has fewer links overall, and the Get Started page focuses on four main areas, with a link to additional tasks to do. For all pages,...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
September 30, 2018

Our First Year of Blogging

It’s hard to believe, but our blog site has already had its first birthday! We have thoroughly enjoyed  bringing new posts to you each week, and we look forward to a prosperous second year of blogging. Looking back at our first year, we have included a few miscellaneous stats and a few favorites selected by our Management Team. If you...

General/Learning
September 24, 2018

The Family History Guide: A Comparative Look

People sometimes ask us, “What’s the difference between The Family History Guide and FamilySearch (or Ancestry, or MyHeritage, etc.)?” The short answer: we are a learning and resource system. But there’s more to the picture … our success depends in part on on the success of other family history and genealogy companies. You could say that we’re into “co-opetition” rather...

Ancestry/FamilySearch/Learning
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