Category: What is new at The FHG

New Country Pages in The Family History Guide

We have recently added country pages for the following nations: Armenia Israel Lebanon Sri Lanka These pages are available in the Countries menu (All Countries) and as separate Goal pages in the Asia collector page. Previously they were listed in the “More Countries” section of the Countries page. More Countries vs. All Countries You may be wondering why some countries...

What’s New in The Family History Guide: 9/20/2021

There’s always a lot going on with The Family History Guide, but you may have noticed that the What’s New page has been a bit behind. We noticed a page update problem that hid the most recent items, so we have revised it to include additions for June and July of 2021. Currently we are working on fine-tuning and enhancing...

New BYU Webinar Video for The Family History Guide

Last week a new video was published on the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel: Teaching Family History with The Family History Guide. It is already proving to be one of the most popular of recent videos on the channel. You can also view the video on the Trainers Home page in The Family History Guide. Here are the topics...

New: Presenting The Family History Guide

If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the new entry in the Trainers menu: Presenting TFHG  (The Family History Guide). It’s a guide for preparing and delivering a full, customizable presentation of the website, in 50 minutes or less. There are two main sections on the page: Guidance Slides and Doing the Presentation. The full presentation...

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...

New Languages for Pass-along Cards

We are excited to announce that our popular pass-along cards for The Family History Guide are now available in the following additional languages: Italian Russian Japanese Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) These cards are available in do-it-yourself sheets that you can print and cut. In the Family History Guide, you can find them in Media > Media Resources > Pass-along Cards...

What’s New in The Family History Guide – 6-28-2021

Here is a summary list of updates made to The Family History Guide website, as of July 26, 2021: 7-24-2021 – Added QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, and Findmypast record collections. 7-23-2021 – Added Choice B in Finland Goal 2, Archives & Libraries, for the DIGITAALIARKISTO site. 7-25-2021 – Added links to new FamilySearch Learning Center videos. 7-23-2021 – Moved the...

Changes to Computer Basics and Technologies Projects

The Computer Basics section of The Family History Guide is available in the Intro menu. It has covered a wide variety of topics, from PC and Mac basics to applications and social media tools. To achieve a better learning balance, we recently moved the applications and social media items to the Technology Projects (in the menus for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage,...

New: Database Reference Page

There are quite a few links to helpful articles and videos in The Family History Guide, covering a wide variety of topics. What should not be overlooked is that there are also links to many free databases for records of all types. To highlight these resources, we’ve created a new page: the Database Reference. About the Database Reference You can...

QRB Videos for German Research, England Census

We are continuing to add new Quick Research Basics (QRB) videos to our YouTube Channel and to the website. You can watch them using the links below or by clicking the video pictures in this blog post: Finding German Records in America German Immigration England Census Records You can also find them in The Family History Guide in the following...