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October 20, 2019

What’s New with QUIKLinks

QUIKLinks are one of the most popular and useful features of The Family History Guide. You can learn more about QUIKLinks and how to use them in the Features Help page. We’ve recently made a few improvements to how QUIKLinks are presented on the site, as well as adding quite a few more QUIKLinks. Here’s a brief summary: Discontinuing the...

Country Research/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
October 13, 2019

Ways to Use Pass-along Cards for The Family History Guide

Recently we have posted a few blog articles about our pass-along cards for The Family History Guide, including the do-it-yourself printing, the Come, Follow Me Companion printable cards, and language translations for the cards. These are all available on the Media page of The Family History Guide. So that brings up a logical question: what are some effective ways to...

The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
October 6, 2019

New in The Family History Guide: Resource Stars

If you have been on The Family History Guide website recently, you’ve probably noticed that there is a star icon before each link to an article or video. We call them “Resource Stars,” and they help you track which articles you’ve read, or videos you’ve watched. The following text is taken from the Features Help page in The Family History...

Online Tracker/What is new at The FHG
October 6, 2019

Updates to Project 8: DNA

The world of DNA research for family history is changing rapidly. We recently updated DNA pages in The Family History Guide for Ancestry and MyHeritage, and we introduced a new Project for Findmypast (LivingDNA). Now we are including some significant updates to our pages in Project 8: DNA. Several of the Goals in this Project are shared among the DNA...

DNA/What is new at The FHG
October 6, 2019

Translated Pass-along Cards

Need to share The Family History Guide with non-English speakers? You can now print your own pass-along cards for The Family History Guide in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. They are available on a new page on the website: https://www.thefhguide.com/passalong-lang.html. The link is also available on the Media page where is discusses pass-along cards. Here are sample screens of the translated...

The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
September 30, 2019

What’s New with Pass-along Cards

Several months ago, we introduced pass-along cards (double-sized, fold-over business cards) for The Family History Guide, and they have proved to be quite popular. To enable even wider adoption, we are introducing online printable PDF sheets for the cards. Just download the PDF, print on glossy or matte paper, and cut, and you have instant pass-along cards. The new pass-along card...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG
September 28, 2019

The Family History Guide at the Family Roots Conference

The Family Roots Convention in sunny St. George, Utah concluded this weekend. I hosted a booth for The Family History Guide Association there, and there were plenty of opportunities to show The Family History Guide website and discuss it with the conference attendees. More and more people are saying they are using the site for individual learning or for training...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG
September 28, 2019

Celebrating Two Years of Blogging

September 2019 marks the two-year anniversary of The Family History Guide blog (and before that, it was a popular semi-monthly newsletter). So far, we have published over 350 blog articles on a wide variety of topics, focusing—of course—on The Family History Guide. In honor of the 2 years of blogging, we’ve put together an Editor’s Picks list of 22 blog...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
September 23, 2019

New: Home Page Updates

When you access The Family History Guide website, you’ll see a new look—it’s simpler and more colorful. Here’s a summary of the changes we’ve made to some key pages of the website, and why … Home Page: What’s Different Previously we had a group of four large tiles in the upper-right area of the Home page. The links from these...

What is new at The FHG
September 21, 2019

Closed Captioning for Our YouTube Videos

One of the cool features available for YouTube videos is closed captioning. This is where you see text across the bottom of the screen, matching the dialogue that’s happening in the video. Closed captioning is especially helpful for Hearing-impaired viewers Clarifying parts of the dialog that are soft or perhaps unclear Seeing dialog when the video volume needs to be...

Social Media/What is new at The FHG
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