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January 19, 2025

Martin Luther King Day and Family History

Today, January 20, celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, a pioneer Black leader and activist who promoted civil rights in the United States and gave his life for the cause. You can read about his life ana accomplishments in many books and websites, including Wikipedia. Part of the awareness he helped to raise is the connection between generations in...

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January 5, 2025

Inside the Guide: England

We’ve added another video to our Inside the Guide playlist: England Sites and Databases. Each Inside the Guide video will highlight websites and databases featured in country pages of The Family History Guide. The videos do not have live links to the sites and databases, but they are easy to find in the Goals and Choices of The Family History...

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December 28, 2024

Inside the Guide: Germany

Here’s another addition to our Inside the Guide playlist: Germany Sites and Databases. Each Inside the Guide video will highlight websites and databases featured in country pages of The Family History Guide. The videos do not have live links to the sites and databases, but they are easy to find in the Goals and Choices of The Family History Guide....

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December 21, 2024

Inside the Guide: Ireland

Here’s another addition to our Inside the Guide playlist: Ireland Sites and Databases. Each Inside the Guide video will highlight websites and databases featured in country pages of The Family History Guide. The videos do not have live links to the sites and databases, but they are easy to find in the Goals and Choices of The Family History Guide....

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December 14, 2024

New: Inside the Guide Video Series

Our YouTube Channel currently has over 250 videos on a wide variety of family history topics. We are now adding a new playlist with a series of upcoming videos: Inside the Guide. Each Inside the Guide video will highlight websites and databases featured in country pages of The Family History Guide. The videos do not have live links to the...

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November 3, 2024

What’s In a Name?

How much do you know about your name, first or last? The Family History Guide has a wealth of information that can help you understand the origins and meanings of names, whether for you or for your ancestors. Here’s a quick list of resources and links found in The Family History Guide that can help you get started with understanding...

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October 27, 2024

Free Genealogy Websites – and The Family History Guide

We like to spread the word that The Family History Guide is an industry-leading website for research—and it’s free. But it’s even better when others help us get our message out, and that’s certainly the case with this recent FamilySearch blog article by genealogy experts Kathryn Grant and Sally Odekirk: Free Genealogy Websites to Elevate Your Research. The article begins...

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October 6, 2024

Becoming a Patient Genealogist

As the well-known saying goes, “Patience is a virtue”—and that is certainly true in genealogy research. But is patience in genealogy only about enduring pain? If so, that would explain why a lot of people decide not to test the family history waters. Indeed, the Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions of “patient” seem to prominently highlight the “pain” concept: bearing pains or...

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October 6, 2024

Update: More Countries Quizzes

Last week we introduced eight Countries Quizzes, alphabetically from Argentina to England. Since then we have added 16 additional quizzes as follows: England Part 2: Civil Registration Iceland Part 1: Research Iceland Part 2: Researching Records Ireland Part 1: Research and Records Ireland Part 2: Researching Irish Records Italy Part 1: Starting Your Research Italy Part 2: Researching Records Mexico:...

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September 16, 2024

Update: New Online Tracker Sheets

Work on the new Online Tracker Sheets continued this past week, and we now have a number of new Google sheets for countries research, as well as an update to the previously finished Platforms sheet. Here’s are the new Countries sheets, each with links to Class Outlines, Choices, Practice Exercises, and more: US, Canada, and Mexico British Isles Scandinavia Europe...

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Category: Country Research

Martin Luther King Day and Family History

Inside the Guide: England

Inside the Guide: Germany

Inside the Guide: Ireland

New: Inside the Guide Video Series

What’s In a Name?

Free Genealogy Websites – and The Family History Guide

Becoming a Patient Genealogist

Update: More Countries Quizzes

Update: New Online Tracker Sheets