Learning – Page 14 – The Family History Guide Blog

December 26, 2017

Are You Ready to Make 2018 a Fantastic Family History Year?

Whether you’re new to family history or a seasoned researcher, the beginning of the year is a great time to evaluate where you are right now in your family history journey, and where you would like to be at the end of the year. What would you like to learn to do? What would you like to improve? Are there...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/Memories/Navigation

December 23, 2017

The Family History Guide at Rootstech 2018

The Family History Guide Association is delighted to participate in Rootstech 2018! In addition to having a booth in the Expo Hall all four days, our director of Development, Bob Taylor, will be presenting Introduction to The Family History Guide on Friday, March 2nd at 3 pm. CLASS DESCRIPTION: Attendees will be able to successfully navigate the free The Family History Guide website (www.thefhguide.com) to get...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/RootsTech

December 23, 2017

Take the Tour

There has been so much going on with The Family History Guide website that our Quick Tour video got a bit behind with the developments. We are excited to announce that the Quick Tour video is back, all shiny and new with the latest updates. It’s hosted on our YouTube Channel; you can find a link to it on the...

Learning/Navigation/Training/What is new at The FHG

December 19, 2017

Features Help Is Here

We recently gave a sneak peek at the new Features Help page, and one day later … it’s here. Find out more below …

Learning/Navigation/What is new at The FHG

December 18, 2017

Coming Soon: Features Help

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a handy “cheat-sheet” page for the cool features in The Family History Guide? Well, that page is on its way – it will be finished in a few days. The text is pretty much done, and it’s just waiting for some graphics and a few finishing touches. When finished, the Features Help page...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

November 27, 2017

Tips to Start Your Family History Journey

It is sometimes difficult to know where to start when you become interested in doing family history work. These helpful tips are from Findmypast which is one of The Family History Guide Partners. The following categories are included in the drop-down menu for the Findmypast learning path (see tabs on the main page): 1. Account 2. Family Tree 3. Docs/Photos 4. Research 5....

General/Learning/The Family History Guide Association

November 16, 2017

Context Switching and Family History: From Foe to Friend

I am proud to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time! I’ve done it so often that I’m quite confident in my skills. When the tasks gets more complicated than that, however, I don’t always do so well. Many of us consider ourselves true multi-taskers, but there are some trade-offs there, especially when it comes to...

Learning/Training/U.S. Research

November 4, 2017

The Family History Guide Will Help You Find Your Way

Editor’s Note: The following article is republished from the Family History Newsletter of the Ogden FamilySearch Library. Thanks to Elder and Sister Erickson! Do you like family history, but feel a little overwhelmed by the fire hose of information that is out on the Internet? Then you’ll like the Family History Guide, a fairly new learning, resource, and training center for genealogy....

Learning/Training

November 4, 2017

Family History Activities – “I Do … and I Understand.”

Much has been written about the benefits of helping children and youth connect to their ancestors through family history activities. For example, research published in Emory University’s Journal of Family Life showed that children and teens who know stories about relatives who came before them show higher levels of emotional well-being and connection – “Family stories provide a sense of identity through time,...

Family History Activities/Learning

October 13, 2017

Case Studies: Learning from the Best

One of the unique features of The Family History Guide is that it brings some of the best tools for family history research into one easy-to-use location. Learning from the best is something that people have done for ages: if you want to become a great painter or musician, you study their works to help you develop your own style....

Case Studies/Country Research/Learning

Category: Learning