Category: Family History Travel

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...

The Family History Guide At RootsTech London – Part Four

The RootsTech, London, exhibit hall opened to an enormous crowd of excited family history enthusiasts this morning – the last day of the conference. This was the busiest of the three days with an additional 4,902 attendees coming to learn, meet new friends and relatives, and enjoy the free “Family Discovery Day” to the fullest. Miraculously, our stack of pass-along cards...

Getting Our Posterity to Love Family History

Rootstech is almost here!  I am so excited to be returning to Salt Lake City to attend. I hope you are too! This is my 6th Rootstech experience and it just keeps getting better. Last year was my first year working for The Family History Guide.  Working in the Expo Hall at RT, teaching some mini-classes in our booth, doing demos of the...

The Benefits of Discovery in Traveling to Your Ancestors’ Homelands

If you haven’t ever traveled to do genealogy and your family history I would highly recommend it.  My husband and I have traveled quite a bit in the last 10 years. We have had a yearning deep within us to go and see the places where our ancestors lived.  We have had marvelous experiences both in and out of The United States. The trips...