Learning – Page 12 – The Family History Guide Blog

December 23, 2018

Announcing the Study Center

We’re excited to announce a new learning tool in The Family History Guide—the Study Center. It’s a handy way to organize your learning in 2019, a bit at a time. The Study Center combines a step-by-step approach with high-level Goals to point you in the right directions for learning. The opening screen for the Study Center is shown below. There...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

December 23, 2018

Planning Ahead for Discovery Days

The 2018 year is almost to a close, and it has been a great one for The Family History Guide. Looking ahead to 2019, there are plenty of opportunities to spread the good word about The Family History Guide—one of them being Family Discovery Days, the family history fairs that are typically held around the world at family history centers...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/The Family History Guide Association/Training

December 17, 2018

Finding Help with The Family History Guide

You can think of The Family History Guide as one large Help system, with Projects, Goals, Choices, and Steps to assist you along the way. There are also many “just-in-time” learning resources on the website, such as links to videos and articles, and there are navigation tips, Summaries, Exercises, and more—all designed to help you learn family history faster and...

FamilySearch/FS Partners/Learning/Navigation/Training

December 10, 2018

Update: Streaming and Recording at the Sandy Granite FHC

The Sandy Granite family history center is now the third-busiest family history center in the Salt Lake area, following the main Family History Library downtown and the Riverton Family History Library. In an earlier blog post, Setting Up for Success, we described how the arrangement of computers and seating leads to an optimized learning environment. An interesting development has been...

Learning/Training

December 2, 2018

Learning More About Family Search Partner Websites

In 2016 FamilySearch announced the addition of partnering with other big genealogy database companies that have millions of records, subscribers, and great technology. These partnerships became a win/win for FamilySearch, Ancestry, Findmypast and My Heritage. The last three are all commercial websites that are competing with one another. When FamilySearch, a free website, proposed sharing records for indexing records and...

FS Partners/General/Learning/Technology/Uncategorized

October 14, 2018

Your 15 Minutes Are Here …

One of the most common reasons people use for not getting involved in family history is, “I don’t have the time.” Yet if you ask busy people if they could spare 15 minutes a day—or every other day—for something very important, chances are they’d say yes. That’s where the “15 Minutes” approach can be helpful. We recently added a “15...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/What is new at The FHG

September 30, 2018

Our First Year of Blogging

It’s hard to believe, but our blog site has already had its first birthday! We have thoroughly enjoyed bringing new posts to you each week, and we look forward to a prosperous second year of blogging. Looking back at our first year, we have included a few miscellaneous stats and a few favorites selected by our Management Team. If you...

General/Learning

September 24, 2018

The Family History Guide: A Comparative Look

People sometimes ask us, “What’s the difference between The Family History Guide and FamilySearch (or Ancestry, or MyHeritage, etc.)?” The short answer: we are a learning and resource system. But there’s more to the picture … our success depends in part on on the success of other family history and genealogy companies. You could say that we’re into “co-opetition” rather...

Ancestry/FamilySearch/Learning

August 25, 2018

12 Ways to Get Started with Family History

One of the most common questions people ask about family history is, “Where do I start?” There is so much information about family history the web that it can be a real challenge to sift through it and know where to begin. The Introduction section of The Family History Guide provides some good suggestions, but there are also quite a...

General/Learning/Navigation

July 7, 2018

Late Bloomers

A while back, I delivered a keynote address on The Family History Guide at the Pikes Peak Family History Fair in Colorado. It was well-received, and there were numerous FamilySearch volunteers there to help everything run smoothly. Two experiences I had there are still fresh in my mind, having made a lasting impression on me – both having to do...

DNA/General/Learning/Technology

Category: Learning