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August 29, 2021

BYU Education Week Recap

Education Week at Brigham Young University completed recently, and The Family History Guide was well-represented. The booth for the website was located north of the Eatery in the Wilkinson Center on campus.  From Angelle Anderson, Marketing Director of The Family History Guide Association: We had a lot of people stop and want to hear about the site, and almost emptied...

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June 20, 2021

Welcome to Our New Intern: Keeley Shields-Balyk

We are excited to have a new intern working with The Family History Guide Association! Keeley Shields-Balyk, from Ontario, Canada, starts with us on June 21. Here is some additional information about Keeley. She is: * Pursuing a Family History Research AAS degree from BYU Online Studies * Experienced in deciphering handwriting scripts * A former volunteer at the Niagara...

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June 13, 2021

Amazon Prime Day Can Be a Great Opportunity to Donate

Prime Day is coming up on June 21 and will run through June 22. This is a great opportunity to support The Family History Guide Association by shopping for deals at smile.amazon.com or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon mobile app. When you designate The Family History Guide Association as your preferred charitable organization in AmazonSmile, Amazon donates a portion...

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May 2, 2021

What’s New in The Family History Guide – 5/3/2021

Here is a summary list of updates made to The Family History Guide website, as of May 1, 2021: 4-27-2021 – In MyHeritage Project 3: Photos and Docs, added a new Choice H for Goal 5, to describe the Deep Nostalgia photo animation feature. 4-26-2021 – In the England pages, added links to research guides from the National Archives in Britain....

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April 25, 2021

Podcast: Family Locket and The Family History Guide

On Tuesday, April 27 at 10 a.m. Mountain Time, Bob Taylor of The Family History Guide Association will be the featured guest on the regular podcast series from Family Locket. The podcast episode will cover topics such as how The Family History Guide got started, what interesting features it has, and how people can use it to accelerate their family...

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April 25, 2021

Welcome to Our New BYU Intern, Karlee Twiner

We are pleased to welcome our newest BYU intern to The Family History Guide Association! Karlee Twiner joins us starting on April 28 and will be working to review and expand research content on the site. Karlee is majoring in Family History Studies at Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in Irish genealogy. She is working  as a research assistant...

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April 19, 2021

Welcome to Our New Outreach Coordinator

We are pleased to announce that Laura Wadsworth has assumed the role of Outreach Coordinator for The Family History Guide Association. In this role, Laura will be coordinating efforts to work with genealogy libraries, libraries, and other organizations to facilitate the use of The Family History Guide. Welcome, Laura!               About Laura Laura Wadsworth...

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April 11, 2021

Hi Five Live and The Family History Guide

On Friday, April 9 Bob Taylor and Bob Ives appeared on the popular Facebook streaming event “Hi Five Live.” The program was part of the regular Friday series called “The Gathering” hosted by Scott and Angelle Anderson. The discussion was about 25 minutes long and covered topics such as how The Family History Guide Association began, what the website offers,...

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March 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Intern, Julia Cook

We are excited to welcome our newest Intern for The Family History Guide Association, Julia Cook. She is comes to us recommended by the Student Development Department at Brigham Young University. Julia has already begun working on evaluating content links in The Family History Guide, to optimize how content is arranged between the main sections of the website and the...

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February 28, 2021

RootsTech Recap for The Family History Guide

Saturday evening on Feb. 27 marked the close of RootsTech Connect 2021. Although the event has come to an end, it will continue to live on, virtually. The numerous video sessions that were recorded will be available for free, for a full year. More about that later in this article … First, some numbers: Stats for Nerds A few days...

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