Family History Activities – Page 2 – The Family History Guide Blog

June 26, 2022

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....

Family History Activities/FamilySearch/RootsTech

March 27, 2022

Two New Activities Videos

Recently we added two new Activities videos to our YouTube Channel: Weekly Family History Activities, and Supercharge Your Family Reunion with Family History Activities. Both were featured at RootsTech Connect 2022 and were well-received. The Weekly Family History Activities video explains how to use the same-named section in The Family History Guide, and the Supercharge Your Family Reunion video has...

Family History Activities/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

December 6, 2021

The Best Christmas Present Ever

Note: This article by David Castleton was published previously on the Granite Family History blog site. A few weeks before Christmas last year one of my sons approached me and asked me what I would like for Christmas. As a parent you appreciate the inquiry but know all the demands on young families. Most years I give the same response,...

Family History Activities/Learning/Memories

September 5, 2021

Sharing Family History: Family History Fun

Note: This article by Janet Helland was published previously on the Granite Family History Center blog siteand is used with the author’s permission. Family History Fun In Part Three of this series, we will explore family history activities that individuals, families, friends and church groups can organize and participate in. Once you start investigating a few of the options...

Family History Activities/Family History Travel

March 14, 2021

Using the Activities Planning Sheet

There is a new feature in the Activities menu of The Family History Guide—it’s the Activities Planning Sheet. This is a Google sheet that you can transfer to your device to help you plan and track family history activities. You can make a copy of the sheet and save it to your Google Drive, or you can download it as...

Family History Activities/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG

March 7, 2021

Family History for Youth – Upcoming Class

Angelle Anderson will present a free class for the Sandy Granite family history center on how to get youth involved in family history and loving it! Here’s the information for the upcoming class: Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9 Time: 7 p.m. Mountain Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373988340?pwd=bjMxcVB5Y3pJSzExTCtFbGxJcWt1UT09 If you are unable to attend, you can view a recording of the class on the Sandy...

Family History Activities/Training

February 28, 2021

Partnership Videos: FamilySearch and The Family History Guide

RootsTech this year was a video extravaganza, with hundreds of videos to choose from on a wide variety of family history topics. There were keynote addresses, class sessions, panel discussions, an Expo Hall, and more. The Family History Guide Association was privileged to work with FamilySearch in producing two special videos that were featured in the Beginner’s learning track at...

Family History Activities/Research/RootsTech/What is new at The FHG

August 16, 2020

Virtual Family History Escape Rooms

Note: This article by Miles Meyer was originally published in the Miles’ Genealogy Tips blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Hello everyone. We have been preparing for Hurricane Isaias this weekend and now it is a tropical storm. So what do you do when you are waiting on a storm that doesn’t come? You catch up on...

Family History Activities/Research/U.S. Research

July 19, 2020

The Family History Scavenger Hunt

Miles Meyer, the Education Director for The Family History Guide Association, recently completed a fun and informative “scavenger hunt” series. It’s published on his blog site, Miles’ Genealogy Tips, and contains a series of articles designed to get you thinking and searching like a family history detective. The series covered the month of June, 2020. Although the event has concluded...

Family History Activities/Research

July 13, 2020

How to Include the Family in Family History

When it comes to spending time with family, engaging in family history ideally should be inclusive and involving everyone, right? The question, though, is how to do just that. After all, it can be quite difficult to get the whole family to gather around a laptop and have them help you index or search for records. Besides, someone might say...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch

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