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July 19, 2020

The Family History Scavenger Hunt

Miles Meyer, the Education Director for The Family History Guide Association, recently completed a fun and informative “scavenger hunt” series. It’s published on his blog site, Miles’ Genealogy Tips, and contains a series of articles designed to get you thinking and searching like a family history detective. The series covered the month of June, 2020. Although the event has concluded...

Family History Activities/Research
July 5, 2020

New: Online Book Links

When we think about books like “The History of the Wilmer Family” and “Genealogical History of Deacon Stephen Hart and His Descendants” we usually think of going to a library and hunting for them on the shelves. It may surprise you to know that thousands of these books are readily available online, as documents in the public domain. What’s more,...

Research/What is new at The FHG
June 28, 2020

Languages, Scripts, and Genealogy

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. The United States is a nation of immigrants. About 1.6% of the population are Native Americans. If we persist in doing genealogical research we will all find ourselves trying to read difficult to decipher handwriting and nearly...

Country Research/Records/Research
June 21, 2020

A Gift from My Dad

It’s early on a Saturday morning in Southern California, in the late 1960’s. The aroma of fresh waffles is already starting to fill the house as I peek into the kitchen. My brother’s baseball card collection covers  about half the table (and Mom will make him clean it up before breakfast). I can already guess where Dad is: he’s probably...

Families/Family/Memories/Research
June 21, 2020

Where was the event? Where are the records?

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. The questions in the title of this post are two separate but closely related issues. To start, I will repeat a general guideline for all genealogical researchers: The place of an event in an ancestor’s or relative’s life...

Country Research/Records/Research/U.S. Research
June 14, 2020

New in The Family History Guide: Link Titles

If you have spent some time looking through the Country and Ethnic pages in The Family History Guide, you’ll realize that there is a lot of great material there. There are thousands of links to articles, videos, websites, and research databases, organized by Goals and Choices. Several months ago we added a number of intermediate headings in Choices. These split...

Research/What is new at The FHG
June 14, 2020

How to Read an Old Document

How to read an old document Genealogists who are involved in doing their own original research inevitably run into handwritten documents that are difficult to decipher. The difficulty arises from a number of factors: the document is written in a language unknown to the researcher the creator of the document had poor handwriting skills the document is written in a...

Research
June 7, 2020

Freedom on the Move: How Runaway Ads Contribute to African-American Family History

With the events going on at this time, many people are looking back in history to reflect on the difficult journey to freedom for minorities in the United States, particularly the black population. Anyone who has taken a U. S. History course should be aware of the horrific institution of slavery and its overall impact on not just U.S. society,...

Family History Activities/Research
June 7, 2020

Genealogy and Paleography: How Are They Complementary?

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. William Shakespeare’s Will by an unknown scribe – Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1382708 I can assume that if you have been reading this blog at all previous to this post that you already know something about genealogy. But I...

Research
May 31, 2020

The Family History Guide on Facebook

As you probably know, The Family History Guide has two associated Facebook pages: Our public page, at https://www.facebook.com/TheFamilyHistoryGuide A private Group for trainers and consultants, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefhguidetraining/   If you are interested in joining the Group, please request membership. For the past few weeks, we have been adding helpful family history tips to these pages, with a wide variety of topics...

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