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November 14, 2022

New: The Family History Guide Q&A Center

We’re happy to announce an exciting new feature in The Family History Guide—the Q&A Center. This tool can be used both for individual self-study and for training family history consultants or trainers. In The Family History Guide, you can access the Q&A Center in the Intro menu or in the Trainers menu. About the Q&A Center It’s fitting that The...

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November 14, 2022

New: The Consultant Training Tools Page

Being a family history trainer or consultant is a great opportunity, but sometimes it can be challenging coming up to speed with everything there is to know. Have a look at our new page in the Trainers menu: Consultant Training Tools. This page is designed for anyone who does family history training, such as Temple and Family History Consultants, instructors,...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
July 10, 2022

Family History: The Great Connector

You’ve heard them before … those time-worn reasons that people give for not becoming involved in family history. (And being involved really means doing anything meaningful in that area, not necessarily becoming a genealogist). Here are two of the most common ones: “I don’t have the time.” “Aunt Clara [or name a favorite relative] does all the genealogy in our...

General/Learning/Research
May 15, 2022

Getting the Help You Need

Family history is one of the most rewarding activities we can do, partly because it is so multi-faceted. Where else could you get immersed in family relations, history, geography, culture, migration, and much more, all pieced together into one mosaic? But all of that beautiful complexity may come with a sizeable learning curve for many of us. Fortunately, The Family...

Country Research/Learning/U.S. Research
May 1, 2022

BYU Family History Library Subject Guides

The Brigham Young University Library has handy subject guides on just about every topic you can think of—including family history, of course. One of the great things about these guides is that they provide essential resources and overviews, in an easy-to-use format. Inside the family history subject guide are tabs for the following topics: Beginning Research: Tips for starting your family history...

Learning/Research
April 25, 2022

The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks

The BYU Family History Library recently posted a new YouTube video titled The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks. This video gives you an inside look at some useful features and tips for using them, such as shared and hybrid topics, hidden gems, resource stars, info buttons, and a lot more. The video has had about 500 views in its...

Learning/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
April 25, 2022

Indexes in The Family History Guide

It’s no secret that The Family History Guide website covers a lot of information. Although it doesn’t contain source records (it points to sites where the records can be found), it has links to thousands of great articles and videos, plus hundreds of useful websites, databases, and family history activities. These resources are included in our Learning System, so you...

Learning/Navigation
March 13, 2022

A Wealth of RootsTech 2022 Videos

RootsTech 2022 Connect concluded on March 5, but the fun continues! There are over 3,700 videos posted on the RootsTech site, all free to watch at any time. Scroll down to the Sessions area on the home page and then click Explore. To find videos of interest, you can choose search filters such as Getting Started, Content Type, and Topic....

Learning/RootsTech/YouTube
January 24, 2022

Browsing The Family History Guide

With today’s advances in technology, we often become focused on getting quick answers to well-defined questions. Google, Wikipedia, and many other sites are wonderful resources for doing just that. However, there is another aspect to information-gathering, as Steven Johnson points out in his book Where Good Ideas Come From—”serendipitous browsing.” The hypertext nature of the World Wide Web makes it...

Learning/Research/What is new at The FHG
January 3, 2022

Make 2022 a Family History Year

Happy New Year to everyone! We have finally turned the page on a challenging year in 2021, and we look forward to great things to come in 2022. A familiar ritual for most of us is the art of making—and keeping—New Year’s resolutions. Favorites include fitness, finances, family, and a host of other positive steps and habits to embrace. May...

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