December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide

To our family history friends, We are delighted this Christmas and holiday season to send our warmest greetings to you. The family history activities we are all involved in are a simple but tangible way of spreading peace in a troubled world. We aim to build bonds among families, to strengthen the ties that bind us to our ancestors, and...

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December 23, 2017

Take the Tour

There has been so much going on with The Family History Guide website that our Quick Tour video got a bit behind with the developments. We are excited to announce that the Quick Tour video is back, all shiny and new with the latest updates. It’s hosted on our YouTube Channel; you can find a link to it on the...

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December 22, 2017

It’s a Wrap!

You may have noticed a few recent updates on our website regarding the Blog. First, we’ve made it easier to find it, in three ways: Click Blog/Social in the top menu; Click the Blog button in the footer of any website page; Click Blog on the Homepage, next to the picture tile for The Family History Guide. And that’s not...

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December 19, 2017

Features Help Is Here

We recently gave a sneak peek at the new Features Help page, and one day later … it’s here. Find out more below …      

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December 18, 2017

Coming Soon: Features Help

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a handy “cheat-sheet” page for the cool features in The Family History Guide? Well, that page is on its way – it will be finished in a few days. The text is pretty much done, and it’s just waiting for some graphics and a few finishing touches. When finished, the Features Help page...

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December 17, 2017

Presenting The Family History Guide to Others: 40 Things to See

For trainers, one of the unusual aspects of presenting The Family History Guide website to others is that there is no slide deck involved; you simply show and explain the website. That leads to a few questions: What elements do you show on the website? What sequence do you follow on the site? What are some good talking points for what...

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December 10, 2017

Open or Close: The Sequel

Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves! 🙂 The Open / Close Choices were so popular that we added buttons at the top of each Project page, so you can close all the Choices on the page, or open all of them. The Default is to have them all open at first. Here’s a partial example of the buttons, in the header...

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December 1, 2017

Open or Close: Your Choice

As you may have discovered, there is a lot of great information in The Family History Guide. We recently added a new feature that enables you to see less or more information in a Project page – you can now close a Choice to hide the information below it, or open any Choice you have closed. Example Here’s an example...

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November 17, 2017

What’s New in the Online Tracker

The free Online Tracker for The Family History Guide has been up and running for about 7 months, and it now has over 1,100 registered users. (It’s the only part of The Family History Guide that requires a username and password; the rest of the site does not.) With the Online Tracker, or “OLT” as we sometimes call it, you can...

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November 15, 2017

Happiness is … an Amazon Smile

Along with the roll-out of the new Home page and the new menu system for The Family History Guide, we also updated the footer section for each page.  Here’s what it looks like now: Notice that at the very bottom of the page there is a new tile for using the Amazon Smile program with The Family History Guide.

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