Category: Training

Presenting The Family History Guide: Part 1

So you have an opportunity to present The Family History Guide, at a family history fair, a conference, a library, a church meeting, etc. (Or perhaps the opportunity is not here yet, but you’d like to plan ahead for it.) What would you present, and how? Here are some suggestions that can help you get the best results and motivate...

A First Look at The Family History Guide

Note: If you are new to The Family History Guide, this article will help you get in and get going, quickly and simply. If you are familiar with the website, you can use the points in this article to help others who may be new to the site. Here are 10 questions and answers about The Family History Guide to...

FamilySearch Helper Resources and The Family History Guide

The Consultant Planner tool has long been a FamilySearch staple for consultants, helping them work with others to plan and do family history. The Family History Guide website has had a section in its Trainers menu, offering tips on how to integrate the Consultant Planner tool with The Family History Guide. As you are likely aware, there is a new version...

New Resource Page for Latter-day Saint Leaders

If you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use The Family History Guide, you are probably familiar with the Faiths menu, which has a wide variety of family history resources for Latter-day Saints (and pages for Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish research as well). We recently added a new Leadership item to the menu....

YouTube Update: Show Me’s and Playlists

This week we added two more Show Me videos:  Project 1, Goal 8: Adding Sources (11:13) Project 1, Goal 9: Record Hints and Attaching Sources (6:11) These Show Me videos are available on our YouTube Channel, and as a link in the header area of the Goal 8 page or the Goal 9 page. This brings the number of videos...

Watching, Waiting And Editing The Family Search Family Tree

Many people do not seem to understand why the FamilySearch Family Tree is a wiki-based program.  When Family Tree was new this was a big deterrent for a lot of people. They just didn’t like the idea that someone could come into “their” person’s information and make changes. A wiki-based program is created for that very purpose.  Google defines it this...

Update: More Show Me Videos

A month ago, we wrote a blog article about two new Show Me videos: Project 1 Overview and Project 1: Goal 1. They give you step-by-step visual examples of how to use the features in The Family History Guide for Project 1: FamilySearch Family Tree. A lot has happened in just one month, as we have introduced four new Show...

Are You Using The Study Center?

Have you ever noticed that new things are happening all the time on The Family History Guide?  Do you sometimes have a difficult time keeping up with all the wonderfully innovative and inspired additions?  The Homepage is the gateway to everything that is available on The Family History Guide.  Click on everything! Look under the Misc dropdown on the Homepage...

Introducing the Online Tracker Reporting System

It’s here! At RootsTech 2019, we announced that a new reporting system for the Online Tracker would be coming in April. Today we are excited to announce its debut on The Family History Guide website. This new feature enables you to create progress reports for yourself or others, based on slider-bar settings that have been recorded in the Online Tracker. Getting...

Rootstech 2019 ~ Lots of Learners, Teachers & Consultants Sought Help

As various stats were collected after RootsTech 2019, it became apparent that The Family History Guide had some very successful experiences there.  We had three wonderful presentations. Two were given by Bob Taylor, CEO of the Family History Guide, entitled “The “Family History Guide: Accelerating Your Learning and Research”.  The two classes attracted 1350 attendees.  It is estimated that a significant number of them...