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December 21, 2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide Association

The Management Team of The Family History Guide would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family and friends a safe and happy holiday season. We are grateful for your ongoing support for and interest in family history, and the work you do connect generations together. There is much today that may be worrisome to many of...

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November 30, 2024

Salt Lake City HQ Mission Training Zone and The Family History Guide

On December 9 Bob Ives and Bob Taylor will present an hour-long training session on The Family History Guide for the Missionary Development Team (Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission), for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This team is comprised of family history missionaries who serve for a year, helping others with their family history and doing...

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November 24, 2024

Update to “The Inside Story” video

A few years ago we produced a YouTube video that outlined the story of The Family History Guide, including its beginnings and progress through 2022. We have recently updated the video, changing some slides for personnel and adding exciting new updates to the content. The sections of the video are: A Simple Idea The Idea Evolves Opening Doors People Power...

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November 3, 2024

David Rencher: Lifetime Genealogy Achievement Award

Just six weeks ago, David Rencher led off our series of live interviews for the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project. Two weeks ago he was in the news, receiving a Lifetime Genealogy Achievement Award from the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences (ICGHS). As noted in a recent FamilySearch blog article, “the ICGHS 36th annual congress was held in...

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October 27, 2024

Free Genealogy Websites – and The Family History Guide

We like to spread the word that The Family History Guide is an industry-leading website for research—and it’s free. But it’s even better when others help us get our message out, and that’s certainly the case with this recent FamilySearch blog article by genealogy experts Kathryn Grant and Sally Odekirk: Free Genealogy Websites to Elevate Your Research. The article begins...

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September 29, 2024

Miles Ahead: Catching Up with Miles Meyer

Miles Meyer, our Education Director for The Family History Guide Association, is not one to let the grass grow under his feet—even in the Florida Everglades. Here’s a brief look at what he has going on, taken from recent blog post on his genealogy blog site:   1) I am finishing up my first set of classes at the International Institute...

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September 22, 2024

ViewPoint with Dennis Quaid: Filming Update

This week we completed the video filming for our partnership project with ViewPoint and The Family History Guide Association. The next step will be video editing, a process that will take about five to six weeks. Then the PBS video, documentary video, and 30-second commercial will be released nationwide sometime between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Those who were interviewed...

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September 9, 2024

RootsTech 2025 Registration Is Almost Here!

It’s hard to believe how the time has flown by, but on September 25 you can register for RootsTech 2025! Here’s a link to a FamilySearch blog post with the details: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/save-the-date-rootstech-2025   Here’s a fun trivia fact: The first person on the left in the blog post photo is none other than Maribel Medina, a great supporter of The...

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July 21, 2024

The Family History Guide Turns 9!

On July 25, 2015 The Family History Guide debuted at the BYU Family History Conference in Provo, Utah. It has been a great adventure since then, and continues to be. The Management Team for The Family History Guide Association has put in countless hours, all unpaid, to build and promote The Family History Guide website. Here’s a look at each...

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