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December 10, 2017

Open or Close: The Sequel

Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves! 🙂 The Open / Close Choices were so popular that we added buttons at the top of each Project page, so you can close all the Choices on the page, or open all of them. The Default is to have them all open at first. Here’s a partial example of the buttons, in the header...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

December 2, 2017

New Category for Posts: LDS Topics

If you’re interested in the LDS aspect of family history, you can now find posts about LDS topics on our blog site. These posts do not appear on the main page of the blog; they are in a separate section (similar to how LDS topics are addressed on the LDS page of The Family History Guide, not in the main...

General

December 1, 2017

Open or Close: Your Choice

As you may have discovered, there is a lot of great information in The Family History Guide. We recently added a new feature that enables you to see less or more information in a Project page – you can now close a Choice to hide the information below it, or open any Choice you have closed. Example Here’s an example...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

November 25, 2017

New Post Category: LDS Topics

If you’re interested in the LDS aspect of family history, you can now find posts about LDS topics on our blog site. These posts do not appear on the main page of the blog; they are in a separate section (similar to how LDS topics are addressed on the LDS page of The Family History Guide, not in the main...

LDS

November 24, 2017

A Shout Out from Scottsdale – The Family History Guide in Action

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Karen Meyer, who currently serves with her husband Ted as the North America Southwest Temple and Family History Advisors for the Scottsdale Coordinating Council. I just want to do a shout out to thank all of you at The Family History Guide Association for your excellent work in putting together the most...

LDS

November 17, 2017

What’s New in the Online Tracker

The free Online Tracker for The Family History Guide has been up and running for about 7 months, and it now has over 1,100 registered users. (It’s the only part of The Family History Guide that requires a username and password; the rest of the site does not.) With the Online Tracker, or “OLT” as we sometimes call it, you can...

Training/What is new at The FHG

November 16, 2017

Context Switching and Family History: From Foe to Friend

I am proud to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time! I’ve done it so often that I’m quite confident in my skills. When the tasks gets more complicated than that, however, I don’t always do so well. Many of us consider ourselves true multi-taskers, but there are some trade-offs there, especially when it comes to...

Learning/Training/U.S. Research

November 15, 2017

Happiness is … an Amazon Smile

Along with the roll-out of the new Home page and the new menu system for The Family History Guide, we also updated the footer section for each page. Here’s what it looks like now: Notice that at the very bottom of the page there is a new tile for using the Amazon Smile program with The Family History Guide.

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

November 13, 2017

New Look for the Home Page and Menus

We are excited to announce a new, streamlined look to our Home page at The Family History Guide. This also includes a tiered menu system that gives easier access to a number of features across the site. Here’s a step-by-step walk-through that demonstrates the new additions. Home Page Design The first thing you’ll notice is that the new design relies...

General/Navigation/What is new at The FHG

November 12, 2017

Welcome to Scott Anderson, Outreach/Public Relations Director

We’re proud to announce that Scott Anderson has joined our team at The Family History Guide Association as Outreach/Public Relations Director. He has been with us less than a month but already has been instrumental in getting the wheels turning for some exciting opportunities for the Association and The Family History Guide. Scott Anderson attained a BA degree from the...

General/The Family History Guide Association

Author: Bob Taylor