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May 31, 2020

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...

Facebook/Research/Social Media/What is new at The FHG

May 17, 2020

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...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG

May 17, 2020

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...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

May 10, 2020

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...

What is new at The FHG

May 3, 2020

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...

Training/What is new at The FHG

May 3, 2020

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 Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG

April 26, 2020

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...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG

April 19, 2020

New Goal for Goldie May in The Family History Guide

Several weeks ago we announced the new partnership between the Goldie May research assistant and The Family History Guide Association (read the article here). In the past few days we have added a new Project 4 Goal for Goldie May, with Choices and step-by-step instructions for using it. Here’s a summary of the Choices in the Goal: Choice A: Installation—Get...

FamilySearch/Research/What is new at The FHG

April 19, 2020

Checking Out the 100+ Top Blogs

Recently I’ve been going through a list of the “Top 100 Blog Sites” in the world, on https://blog.feedspot.com/genealogy_blogs, as well as some not on the list. The idea is to find links to additional articles that would be beneficial for The Family History Guide. It has been well worth the effort, as hundreds of new links have been added from...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

April 12, 2020

Introducing Our New Education Director, Miles Meyer

We are excited to announce that Miles Meyer is joining us as our new Education Director. We have some important new initiatives we are starting for training, and Miles will be directly involved with them. Here are several of the items: Establishing a strategy for remote training Organizing a new Volunteer Presenters program Expansion of the Certified Trainers program A...

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