Training – The Family History Guide Blog

February 9, 2025

BYU Family History Library Video: Training with The Family History Guide

Imagine a whole library of family history training tools within your reach, and they are all free of charge! The new video Training with The Family History Guide is now available on the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel, and it has about 800 views so far, in less than two weeks. The video covers these training tools: The video...

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February 9, 2025

FAQs for Class Outlines

The Class Outlines in The Family History Guide are a powerful way to develop family history training, quickly and effectively. The were introduced about 18 months ago and have grown to over 230 in the collection so far. Recently we added an FAQs link in the Class Outlines page that answers questions that trainers might have about developing and using...

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February 3, 2025

Maribel Medina’s RootsTech Classes

Maribel Medina is one of the rising stars in family history education, particularly for Latino audiences and research in Spanish. She has taught numerous Zoom sessions on learning FamilySearch and The Family History Guide, and she is one of the interviewees in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid TV series on genealogy that features The Family History Guide. Maribel will...

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January 19, 2025

BYU Webinar: New Training Tools in The Family History Guide

On Wed. January 22 I will be presenting a webinar for the popular BYU Family History Library sesires, titled “New Training Tools in The Family History Guide.” The webinar begins at 5 p.m. Mountain Time and is free. To register for the online event, go to this page: To join the webinar, wait until just before the start time and...

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December 28, 2024

Year in Review: The Top 20 for 2024

This past year was a memorable one for The Family History Guide. Here’s a look back at 20 of the events and website features that made 2024 a special year: 20. AI Goal added—With artificial intelligence being applied to genealogy in new ways, this new Goal in The Family History Guide helps you get up to speed on ChatGPT, handwriting...

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November 30, 2024

Salt Lake City HQ Mission Training Zone and The Family History Guide

On December 9 Bob Ives and Bob Taylor will present an hour-long training session on The Family History Guide for the Missionary Development Team (Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission), for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This team is comprised of family history missionaries who serve for a year, helping others with their family history and doing...

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October 27, 2024

Free Genealogy Websites – and The Family History Guide

We like to spread the word that The Family History Guide is an industry-leading website for research—and it’s free. But it’s even better when others help us get our message out, and that’s certainly the case with this recent FamilySearch blog article by genealogy experts Kathryn Grant and Sally Odekirk: Free Genealogy Websites to Elevate Your Research. The article begins...

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October 14, 2024

Training for the National Genealogical Society

This past week I met online with 50 leaders from the National Genealogical Society, through their OrgConnects! program. OrgConnects is a new venture that enables their leadership to meet and discuss important topics across organizations. Thursday evening was a presentation on how training tools in The Family Histgory Guide can help leaders and members accelerate their training and learning efforts...

Learning/Online Tracker/Training

September 29, 2024

Miles Ahead: Catching Up with Miles Meyer

Miles Meyer, our Education Director for The Family History Guide Association, is not one to let the grass grow under his feet—even in the Florida Everglades. Here’s a brief look at what he has going on, taken from recent blog post on his genealogy blog site: 1) I am finishing up my first set of classes at the International Institute...

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August 25, 2024

Maribel’s Story

Maribel Medina is a popular family history trainer and consultant in the San Diego area. As we mentioned in a previous blog article, she will participate with other representatives from The Family History Guide Association in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project about family history in the United States, for broadcast nationwide. Recently Maribel was featured in a blog...

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