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February 3, 2025

FamilySearch 2024 Year in Review

Note: This article appeared previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. FamilySearch 2024 Year in Review FamilySearch.org I realize we are getting well into 2025, but I am always fascinated by what happened in the past year. FamilySearch.org had a banner year and from my standpoint, more than I can quickly learn about is coming in 2025. I do, however,...

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January 13, 2025

What’s New in The Family History Guide

From time to time we add new features and items to The Family History Guide website, and when we do, they usually end up in a blog post like this. So here goes, with several things that have been added in the last few weeks … 1. 70+ Tasks to Do with FamilySearch and The Family History Guide—This is a...

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December 7, 2024

70+ Family History Tasks, with FamilySearch & The Family History Guide

When we think about what an individual’s part of FamilySearch Family Tree may look like, there’s a wide range of possibilities. Some people are just starting to build their tree information, while others have extensive pedigrees that go back many generations on many lines. And of course, there are lots of variations in between for countless other users. So if...

FamilySearch/General/Learning/What is new at The FHG

November 3, 2024

David Rencher: Lifetime Genealogy Achievement Award

Just six weeks ago, David Rencher led off our series of live interviews for the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project. Two weeks ago he was in the news, receiving a Lifetime Genealogy Achievement Award from the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences (ICGHS). As noted in a recent FamilySearch blog article, “the ICGHS 36th annual congress was held in...

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September 16, 2024

Date with Dad

Note: This article was published previously on the Granite FamilySearch Center blog site. My dad got his first 8 mm movie camera as a teenager in about 1937. He loved it and used it a lot to document his life. When he passed away in 2010, he left a large container of his movies and slides that ended up in my brother’s...

FamilySearch/Memories

August 25, 2024

Maribel’s Story

Maribel Medina is a popular family history trainer and consultant in the San Diego area. As we mentioned in a previous blog article, she will participate with other representatives from The Family History Guide Association in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project about family history in the United States, for broadcast nationwide. Recently Maribel was featured in a blog...

FamilySearch/Training/What is new at The FHG

August 25, 2024

Update: “Show Me” Slides

In the Trainers menu for The Family History Guide is an entry for Show Me slides. These Google slides are a step-by-step visual reference that helps you learn the basic features of FamilySearch, such as navigation skills, adding sources for records, managing photographs and documents in Memories, etc. They show screen shots, diagrams, and notes to make learning a breeze....

FamilySearch/Training/What is new at The FHG

July 28, 2024

Take a Look at FamilySearch Labs

Note: This article appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/The current experiments in FamilySearch Labs include: Merge Analysis View: Understand the nuances of a merge from a tree person’s change log. Expand your search with Full Text: Unlock hidden discoveries in historical records that have never been searchable until now. Family Group Trees: Gather your family into...

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June 9, 2024

The Accuracy of Inherited Genealogy

Note: This article appeared previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Many genealogists “inherited” their interest in genealogy from a relative: parent, a grandparent, or some other relation. I became interested in genealogy in a different way, but I still inherited a lot of documents and information from two great-grandmothers. One of my great-grandmother published an almost 700 page...

FamilySearch/Records/Research

June 2, 2024

Introducing the Family Tree Validator

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Finally, a way to quickly identify and correct entries on the FamilySearch Family Family Tree — https://findmyroots.tech/products/ I learned about this app at RootsTech 2024, a couple of months ago. I am sorry I have not written about it sooner but after talking to the developer, I...

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