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May 15, 2022

Getting to Know the U.S. State Pages

As you know, The Family History Guide has research pages for many countries, including the United States. Just below the Statue of Liberty picture on the main U.S. page is a list of links to all 50 states, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. 12 Goals The overall structure of each state page is the same – 12 Goals, plus...

Navigation/Research
May 9, 2022

Finding Your Female Ancestors

Happy Mother’s Day (one day later)! To focus on the great women in our family trees, let’s take a look at ways we can find our female ancestors more easily, using resources in The Family History Guide. This article focuses on Goal B4 in the United States page: Marriage Records. Basic Marriage Records Often you can find needed information about...

Research/U.S. Research
May 9, 2022

New QRB Video: Beginning Research in Australia

We have added a new QRB (Quick Research Basics) video to our YouTube Channel. This new addition, narrated by James Taner, is titled Beginning Research in Australia. It provides a helpful introduction to doing genealogy research in Australia, including the following topics: Australia background and history Convicts and settlements Australian archives Church records You can watch the video in Goal...

Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
May 9, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May: Episode 6

James Tanner and Richard Miller have recently published Episode 6 in the series of Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May. This newest episode focuses on Danish research, although the principles discussed can be widely applied to other aspects of genealogy. You can find all the episodes on the Goldie May YouTube Channel, and Episode 6 is included below...

Country Research/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
May 1, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May: Episodes 4 and 5

James Tanner and Richard Miller are back at it again, with new episodes of their popular “Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May.” Each episode is designed to take you behind the scenes of expert genealogists tackling research problems in real time. This approach is quite the opposite of the traditional after-the-fact reporting of most research articles and videos....

Research/Training/U.S. Research
April 18, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May, Episode #3

Episode 3 of Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May is now online. You can watch the episode below, or on on the Goldie May YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnS71e7GEI Here’s a note about the video, from James Tanner, one of the co-hosts of the series: “Richard Miller, the developer of the Goldie May app and website, and I have started...

Research/Training/U.S. Research
April 18, 2022

Stories of Gathering My Family History

Note: This article was published previously on the Granite Family history center website. My early experiences with family history were overwhelming and daunting. Once, when I was at the Salt Lake Family History Library, I looked through a book with a line of my ancestors and noticed a vital date for my father was wrong. When no one was looking,...

Memories/Research
April 10, 2022

New Video: Mapping Your Roots

We’ve added a new video to our YouTube Channel: Mapping Your Roots, by Miles Meyer. It’s from a presentation he did for The Genealogy Show this month, and it covers essential map concepts for research, such as historical place names, online sites, land and property resources, etc. The video is in the Quick Research Basics playlist and is included below...

Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
April 10, 2022

Genealogy Research … Live

Watching an artisan or craftsman at work can be an enlightening experience. Whether it’s a musician practicing, an architect drawing a plan, or a  sculptor molding clay, you can often see the creative and technical flows coming together. Two genealogy “artisans” of note are James Tanner, blogger, presenter, and Chairman of The Family History Guide Association; and Richard Miller, software...

Research/Training/U.S. Research/YouTube
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