Category: What is new at The FHG

New: Online Book Links

When we think about books like “The History of the Wilmer Family” and “Genealogical History of Deacon Stephen Hart and His Descendants” we usually think of going to a library and hunting for them on the shelves. It may surprise you to know that thousands of these books are readily available online, as documents in the public domain. What’s more,...

New in The Family History Guide: Link Titles

If you have spent some time looking through the Country and Ethnic pages in The Family History Guide, you’ll realize that there is a lot of great material there. There are thousands of links to articles, videos, websites, and research databases, organized by Goals and Choices. Several months ago we added a number of intermediate headings in Choices. These split...

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Here’s a recap of the latest happenings with The Family History Guide: 1. QUIKLinks Reach the 5,000 Milestone Recently we added about 50 new QUIKLinks in The Family History Guide to record collections from FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast. That puts the total number at over 5,000 (and growing). You can find QUIKLinks where you see the lightning-bolt icons in...

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...

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...

Spring Cleaning with The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few months. We are bringing you more content, more links, and more country pages for example. Also, website platforms such as FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast continue to make updates to their websites as well. So now is a good time for some “spring cleaning” on The...

Happy Mother’s Day from The Family History Guide Association

The Family History Guide Association would like to send our very best wishes to all the mothers and women who make our world a better place for all of us. We love you all! A Video from The Family History Guide Association  We hope you enjoy this brief video as a small gift to each of you. Thanks for nurturing...

Update: Sample Outlines for Training

We’ve recently added the following Sample Outlines for training with The Family History Guide: FS2.5-Uploading-Tagging-Photos FS2.7-Documents-Stories-Audio FS3.1-Descendancy-Research   These are Word files that you can download and customize as needed. More Sample Outlines will be added in the coming weeks. You can find the current list in Sample Outlines, in the Trainers menu. Updated Headings We have also updated the...

Welcome to Our Two New BYU Interns

We are excited to have two new Interns with us, who are currently students in the Brigham Young University Family History Department. Please join us in welcoming them to The Family History Guide Association. They will be working to improve and expand content in The Family History Guide, in their areas of expertise. Zachary Matthews Zach specializes in United States...

The New Africa Country Pages

You’ve probably seen the South Africa country page in The Family History Guide. Now it is being joined by four new country pages: Democratic Republic of the Congo Ghana Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) Nigeria You can access these pages from the Countries menu by clicking All Countries and selecting them from the list; or, you can select Asia/Pacific/Africa and then...