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August 18, 2024

Update on the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid Project

A while back we announced a groundbreaking opportunity with the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project. You can read about the announcement here. Here are some items that will bring you up-to-date on the latest developments with the project: Filming Date and Location—The primary video footage will be shot in Utah on September 19. Additional footage may be provided by the...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
May 5, 2024

10 Company Blogs You Shouldn’t Miss

Last week we posted a blog article titled “Ten Family History Bloggers You Should Know” to emphasize some of the great work that individual bloggers are doing in family history. This week we are following up with a look at corporate blog sites that offer many free resources and expert articles about genealogy. Let’s get started with the list—and remember...

Social Media/Technology
March 22, 2021

Getting Family History Help with Facebook Groups

Several years ago my friend Sue Maxwell introduced me to an interesting family history resource: Genealogy on Facebook. The site takes you to a free PDF by Katherine Willson that you can download. It has links to Facebook groups that deal with many aspects of genealogy, including geographical research, surnames, societies and more. There are even links to Facebook groups...

Learning/Social Media
July 12, 2020

Inviting Others to Share

Editor’s Note: This article by David Castleton was originally published in on GraniteFHC.com and is used with the author’s permission. Last year I attended a class at the Sandy Granite Family History Center regarding using social media to assist with family history. The instructor shared a story about a woman whose mother died when she was quite young. She didn’t...

Memories/Social Media
June 28, 2020

How Social Media and Family History Brought a Family Together

It is quite amazing to think about how far we have come with technology. Since the creation of the Internet, there have been many changes in the way we shop, research, communicate, and even in how we do family history. More particularly, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, have made it easier to write and share content...

Memories/Social Media/Technology
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...

Facebook/Research/Social Media/What is new at The FHG
May 17, 2020

The Family History Guide Twitter Page Takes Flight

Due to various reasons, the Twitter page for The Family History Guide has not seen much activity for the last few months. Until now … We have relaunched our Twitter page at a new location: https://twitter.com/seethefhguide  We are redoubling our efforts to provide timely and useful tweets, with links and photos. In The Family History Guide, you can find our...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
September 28, 2019

Celebrating Two Years of Blogging

September 2019 marks the two-year anniversary of The Family History Guide blog (and before that, it was a popular semi-monthly newsletter). So far, we have published over 350 blog articles on a wide variety of topics, focusing—of course—on The Family History Guide. In honor of the 2 years of blogging, we’ve put together an Editor’s Picks list of 22 blog...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
September 23, 2019

RootsTech 2020 is Just Around the Corner!

RootsTech 2020 is the 10th Anniversary of RootsTech in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is in the Salt Palace again! It is such a fabulous venue and right in the heart of the city near Temple Square and the Family History Library, the flagship of the nearly 5000 other libraries worldwide. The 2020 dates are February 26-29! Yes, it is Leap Year! RootsTech is...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch/Learning/RootsTech/Social Media
September 21, 2019

Closed Captioning for Our YouTube Videos

One of the cool features available for YouTube videos is closed captioning. This is where you see text across the bottom of the screen, matching the dialogue that’s happening in the video. Closed captioning is especially helpful for Hearing-impaired viewers Clarifying parts of the dialog that are soft or perhaps unclear Seeing dialog when the video volume needs to be...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
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