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February 5, 2018

Home Page Updates

To keep things consistent and easy to follow, we don’t re-arrange items on the Home Page of The Family History Guide very often. In the last few days, we’ve added a few touches that we feel will enhance the user experience a bit, while not dramatically changing it. In this case, we have updated the “banner” area – the section...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
February 4, 2018

The “Search” is On

We recently enhanced the Search feature that’s on each page in The Family History Guide. (“Search” helps you quickly find topics and keywords on The Family History Guide website.)  Here’s a brief summary of the improvements. When you search, there will be no more ads at the top of results window. Our non-profit status as The Family History Guide Association...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
January 31, 2018

Looking Up, Down Under

We are pleased to announce the addition this week of research pages on The Family History Guide for the Australian States. You can find the links on the Australia country page, below the main photo: Here are the individual links to the Australian State pages: New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Each of these pages features...

Country Research/Navigation/Records/What is new at The FHG
January 29, 2018

Welcoming Our New Content Specialists

It takes a lot of work to keep the website content for The Family History Guide fresh, appealing, and relevant. We have added a group of Content Specialist volunteers to help us bring you the best in family history learning, just where you need it. Our new Content Specialists are: Laurie Beardall, Industry Partners Ada Nelson, Latin America Jim Millecam,...

Country Research/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
January 24, 2018

Check Out Our RootsTech 2018 Page

We’ve added a RootsTech 2018 page to our website, to keep everyone in the loop on what we will be up to at the Conference. You can access it here: http://www.thefhguide.com/rt-2018.html  It’s also in the Blog / Social menu on our site: We’ll keep the page updated as we approach RootsTech. Let us know what you think!

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
January 22, 2018

QUIKLinks – Just in Time

One of the popular design features of The Family History Guide is what we call “just-in-time learning.” With just-in-time learning, the articles and videos you need are placed right where you need them as you study about a topic. So the next logical step? We’re combining QUIKLinks with just-in-time learning. In addition to the lists of QUIKLinks at the top...

Country Research/Learning/Navigation/Records
January 15, 2018

Getting More from QUIKLinks

You’re probably familiar with QUIKLinks in The Family History Guide – those handy shortcuts that take you directly to search screens in FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FindmyPast, so you don’t have to spend extra navigation time finding them. (And if you’re not familiar with QUIKLinks, the Features Help page has a “quik” description of how to find them.) After you...

Navigation/Records
January 8, 2018

The Family History Guide – TIY

“DIY” – as anyone into home renovation knows – means “Do It Yourself”. There are plenty of tales of DIY success and failure, and it has given birth to a multi-billion industry and even a number of reality TV shows. So what is “TIY”? That’s the little-known cousin of DIY … “Teach It Yourself”. We at The Family History Guide...

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