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May 23, 2022

Upcoming BYU Webinar: Research with The Family History Guide

The BYU Family History Library keeps rolling out great family history instruction videos, and we are honored to be part of their upcoming schedule. On Thursday, July 7 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time I will be presenting a webinar titled “Research with The Family History Guide.” It will go into depth on the research menus, tools, and resources available in...

Country Research/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
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 1, 2022

It’s a Date: Adding Dates to the Article and Video Links

In a recent blog article on The Family History Guide, we mentioned that dates (years) have been added to entries in the Vault. The entries are sorted by year, within video and article categories, with blanks for unknown years. Now we have begun adding years for article and video links in the main part of The Family History Guide. Unlike...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
April 25, 2022

The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks

The BYU Family History Library recently posted a new YouTube video titled The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks. This video gives you an inside look at some useful features and tips for using them, such as shared and hybrid topics, hidden gems, resource stars, info buttons, and a lot more. The video has had about 500 views in its...

Learning/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
April 25, 2022

Presentations for The Family History Guide

We recently delivered a hour-long online presentation about The Family History Guide to the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society (MCGS) located in Wisconsin. The presentation was well-received, and here are a few of the comments from the session: “With all this, why would I want to search anywhere else? This is a fantastic website. Thank you so much for presenting this.”...

Training/What is new at The FHG
April 18, 2022

New Additions to The Family History Guide

Over the past month or so we’ve been busy adding new links to The Family History Guide from RootsTech and other sources. Here’s a brief summary of what’s new in the website. RootsTech 2022 We’ve added links to over 200 videos from RootsTech 2022, in a wide variety of categories. Here’s a small sampling, with the locations in The Family...

What is new at The FHG
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 4, 2022

BYU Family History Webinar: The Family History Guide, Tips and Tricks

On April 7 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time, I will present a free webinar for the BYU Family History Library, titled “The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks.” Here are a few of the topics that I will cover in the presentation: What’s New in The Family History Guide Finding What You Need Hidden Gems Tools for Success The Vault...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
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