Category: What is new at The FHG

New Ancestry Show-Me Videos

This past week we added three new Show Me videos to The Family History Guide for Ancestry Project 2: Family Tree. Here are the links and brief descriptions for each: Project 2 Goal 3: Add or Remove People Project 2 Goal 4: Edit Relationships Project 2 Goal 5: Explore Hints You can also find these Show Me videos in the...

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

Last week we featured an article written by James Tanner about the new Goldie May research assistant. It’s a powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension that helps you track your research progress on FamilySearch. This week we are excited to announce that Goldie May has been selected as an Authorized Training Partner for The Family History Guide Association. What This Means...

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Recently we changed up the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide a bit. We have consolidated a few of the entries, and we have introduced the Trainer’s Corner, a place to find great tips and resources for training. Here’s a look at what you’ll find in the new Trainer’s Corner page: Instructor Prep and Delivery This section combines several...

Introducing the Sample Outlines

In an earlier article, Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines, we described the concept of using a sample course outline to prepare family history courses. The SampleĀ  Outline can be modified to suit your needs as you teach family history topics right from The Family History Guide website. We have recently added several Sample Outlines to The Family...

We’re Still Standing!

From our COO, Bob Ives: With all the unsettling things going on in today’s world, I find it comforting to be able to think about something other than the current events of the day. Yes, that can be hard if you are wondering what tomorrow may bring or you are sequestered or quarantined. Focusing on something that can be calming...

Embedded Videos in The Family History Guide

When you browse through different Projects in The Family History Guide, you’ll see that we now have embedded YouTube videos that you can watch right on the page. (The United States Project has a lot of these, for example.) The embedded videos on the page can also be expanded to full-screen mode. Below is an example of a page with...

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines

I recently posted the following in our Facebook Trainers & Consultants page: “Last week I taught a one-hour class on newspaper research at our local family history center. I was filling in for an instructor who couldn’t make it. I had a few days to prepare, but rather than put together a slide deck I decided to teach the class...

More from RootsTech 2020

As mentioned in last week’s blog post, RootsTech 2020 was an unforgettable experience for The Family History Guide Association. Here are a few extra items about our RootsTech experience that you might enjoy: Google Photo Album Our Marketing Director, Angelle Anderson, was busy catching the RootsTech action in photos and videos, Here’s a link to the Google Photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2dTg3jrZUqvtJnsE7...

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Over the past few weeks we’ve added several new Choices and one new Goal in The Family History Guide. Here’s a recap of the key additions to the site, with links provided to the supporting content in The Family History Guide: FamilySearch “Where Am I From?” FS Project 4: Goal 10, Choices A, B, C, and D. The “Where Am...

RootsTech Recap from The Family History Guide Association

This was the fifth year for The Family History Guide Association at RootsTech, and by all accounts, RootsTech 2020 was the best so far for us. Here are some brief descriptions of what the experience was like: Demos We gave over 1,000 demos of The Family History Guide at our workstations over the span of the conference, and they were...