Category: Family History Activities

5-Minute Family History Activities for Everyone

You have to admit – activities can be a fun and meaningful way for anyone to get involved in family history, from seniors to kids. One of the challenges that sometimes comes up is time: preparation time for activities, and a shorter duration. Many of the over 200 family history activities in The Family History Guide need little preparation, and...

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...

Exploring Family History Activities with The Family History Guide

Scott and Angelle Anderson, the Public Relations and Marketing Directors for The Family History Guide Association, recently presented a webinar for the BYU Family History Library. The presentation is titled “Exploring The Family History Guide’s Activities for All Ages and Stages” and it provides a great overview of the wide variety of family history activities available on The Family History...

Why We Need Our Family Story Now More Than Ever

We recently published a creative and heartwarming video on our YouTube Channel: Why We Need Our Family Story Now More Than Ever. This video explores the reasons for, and results of capturing and sharing our family history in interesting ways. It follows the effects of family history participation on a family through several generations, and well as providing a Latter-day...

New: Weekly Family History Activities for 2024

The Weekly Family History Activities are an excellent way to integrate family history into the regular Come, Follow Me lessons. We have just finished the 2023 activities and are excited to announce the upcoming 2024 schedule, centered on the Book of Mormon. The Weekly Family History Activities page also includes a link to an Activities Index, plus the Facebook Group...

Getting Excited About Family History!

“Our Turtle House” is a popular and inspirational YouTube channel with over 35,000 subscribers. On August 20, Mark Williams hosted a livestream session with family history experts Shenley Puterbaugh and Scott and Angelle Anderson (the latter two who are members of The Family History Guide team). In the session, the guest speakers share tips and suggestions for how to make...

Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide

Recently we published a new video on our YouTube Channel: Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide. As you probably know, we have a Faiths menu on the website, with resources for the Church of Jesus Christ as well as Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish research. But there are other locations in The Family History Guide where you can find...

Weekly Family History Activities for 2023

With the new year approaching, it’s time to unveil the first set of lessons for the popular Weekly Family History Activities series, a study companion for the Come, Follow Me resource. The study theme of 2023 is the New Testament, and the Weekly Family History Activities provide a family history perspective for each Come, Follow Me lesson. This year’s resource...

New Family History Activities in The Family History Guide

We have recently added over 25 fun and engaging family history activities to The Family History Guide, in all our major groups: Family, Individuals, Youth, and Kids. These activities are from a variety of sources, including the Weekly Family History Activities pages and Bethany Jensen, a family history activities specialist in Texas. Here’s a summary of the new activities –...

FamilySearch and The Family History Guide: Summer Activities

Summer is a great time for family activities of all kinds, and of course that includes family history activities. The Family History Guide has over 200 great activities for families, individuals, youth, and kids, with a master index and a downloadable planning sheet as well. Recently FamilySearch published several posts on family history activities that feature The Family History Guide....