Category: Family History Activities

Recording Family History Stories – tips from The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide’s Family Section is the place to go to find suggestions for preserving your family history stories. One idea is to interview parents and grandparents (or anyone!) while gathering in a story room at an LDS Family History Center. Be assured that your video recording will be of high quality and that assistants will be there to help. The Riverton Family...

Using The Family History Guide Trackers with your Family

The Family History Guide online trackers provide a fun, efficient way to track your progress through the Family History Guide from anywhere you have internet access.  They help you know what you do and don’t know, and provide a solution to what happens sometimes when you stare at the computer and are not sure what to do next in your...

Find help to build your family tree using The Family History Guide and create a timeline in TWILE

Just sharing something I am so excited about! One of the family history activities listed on the Youth Page of The Family History Guide Family Activities section (Documenting the Past) is to create a timeline using Twile. I am having so much fun with Twile – an interactive, cloud-based service in which you can create a timeline of your family’s past, present, and future. Made...

Announcing the new Family Section of The Family History Guide

September 7th was a red-letter day for the Family History Guide with the launch of the FAMILY SECTION – the new “go-to” place for ideas, inspiration, and resources for family history activities. Here you will find something for everyone – families, singles, youth, and children: 1. Anytime Activities and Games 2. Plan-Ahead Activities 3. Making family history 4. Documenting the...