Category: Training

Introducing the Regional Trainers Program

It’s hard to believe that the launch of The Family History Guide website was less than three years ago. We’ve come a long ways in that time, but there is still much to do. You are likely familiar with our mission statement: ” … to greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone’s...

Introducing the New Instructor Guides

In a previous post, Update to The Family History Guide Training Pages, we mentioned that Instructor Guides are available for trainers. This article explains their purpose, what’s in them, and where you can find them on the website. Why Instructor Guides? The main purpose of the Instructor Guides is to help you prepare to teach a class from The Family History Guide...

Update to The Family History Guide Training Pages

For a while, we have felt the need to streamline and improve the Training pages for The Family History Guide. This article takes you through the changes, one page at a time, as well as the new look to the drop-down menu. You can get started with the new pages here. Trainers Menu The new menu is shown at the right....

Introducing Project Quizzes for The Family History Guide

So you’ve worked through the Goals for a Project in The Family History Guide, and you’d like to see how well you remember the concepts. Or, perhaps you’re a family history trainer who would like to measure learning for those you teach. Either way, the new Project Quizzes in The Family History Guide could be just the ticket. What Are...

The Family History Guide – TIY

“DIY” – as anyone into home renovation knows – means “Do It Yourself”. There are plenty of tales of DIY success and failure, and it has given birth to a multi-billion industry and even a number of reality TV shows. So what is “TIY”? That’s the little-known cousin of DIY … “Teach It Yourself”. We at The Family History Guide...

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...

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...

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...

Context Switching and Family History: From Foe to Friend

I am proud to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time! I’ve done it so often that I’m quite confident in my skills. When the tasks gets more complicated than that, however, I don’t always do so well. Many of us consider ourselves true multi-taskers, but there are some trade-offs there, especially when it comes to...

The Family History Guide Will Help You Find Your Way

Editor’s Note: The following article is republished from the Family History Newsletter of the Ogden FamilySearch Library. Thanks to Elder and Sister Erickson! Do you like family history, but feel a little overwhelmed by the fire hose of information that is out on the Internet? Then you’ll like the Family History Guide, a fairly new learning, resource, and training center for genealogy....