Category: What is new at The FHG

New QRB Video: Starting Your Research in Argentina

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Starting Your Genealogical Research in Argentina, by James Tanner. This is the first in a two-part series on Argentina research. You can view this latest video in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Argentina country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and...

New: Introducing Class Outlines

We are proud to announce the arrival of the Class Outlines, a series of new training tools for family history presenters and learners. As of this writing there are 28 class outlines, with both English and Spanish versions. You can access them in the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide, using the new Class Outlines link. About the Class Outlines In...

5-Minute Features: QUIKLinks

One of the most popular features in The Family History Guide is QUIKLinks, which put record collections from multiple platforms at your fingertips. There are QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FIndmypast in many locations in The Family History Guide. We recently published a new 5-Minute Features video on our YouTube Channel for learning about QUIKLinks. You can watch it...

New on Our YouTube Channel: 5-Minute Features

Today we are introducing a new playlist on our YouTube Channel. It’s called “5-Minute Features,” and it will have a number of short videos that describe how to use important features of The Family History Guide, each in about five minutes or less. The first video in the playlist has been uploaded—it’s Record Search Practice Exercises. This video gets you...

What’s New in The Family History Guide – Aug. 2023

Summer is great time for vacations, family trips, family history – and for updating The Family History Guide. Here is a brief summary of what we’ve been up to lately, with content updates on the website: QUIKLinks—We’ve added several hundred QUIKLinks to record collections from FamilySearch, Ancestry, and MyHeritage. These can be found at the end of many Choices in...

BYU-I Pathways and The Family History Guide: Practice Exercise Initiative

BYU-Idaho and BYU Pathways Worldwide have teamed up to provide a popular Family History Research curriculum, available online and quite affordable (as low as $81 per credit). As noted in an earlier blog post on this site, this curriculum refers to The Family History Guide as an important resource in its downloadable course handbook. We are excited to announce a...

New QRB Video: Research in Italy

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Starting Your Genealogical Research in Italy, by James Tanner. You can view it in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Italy country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more QRB videos coming your way!

Eight is Great! The Family History Guide Turns 8

It seems the time has gone by so quickly since those days in late 2014, when The Family History Guide started as a design on paper … and now it has website visitors from over 150 countries. July 25, 2015 was the day the website officially launched, and so we are turning 8 years old this week. Over the years,...

New QRB Videos: Doing Research in Wales

We have recently added two new QRB (Quick Research Basics) videos to our YouTube Channel. Narrated by James Tanner, these videos offer a step-by-step approach to doing family history research in Wales. There are now nearly 80 QRB videos available in The Family History Guide. Here are the new QRB videos: TFHG – Starting Your Genealogical Research in Wales TFHG...