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May 29, 2023

New in The Family History Guide: Record Search Practice Exercises

If you have been looking for ways to sharpen your record search skills, the new Record Search Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide may be just what you’ve been looking for. The Format The Practice Exercises use the following format: Record Search Practice Objective – a statement of the problem to solve, including several questions to answer. Hints –...

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May 21, 2023

FamilySearch Links to The Family History Guide

FamilySearch has recently updated its Help and Learning section of the website. In that section there is a new page titled Family Tree Basics. The path to get to the page is as follows: Help icon (main FamilySearch screen) > Help and Learning > Build Skills – Learn More (lower right) > Family Tree Basics In that page, you’ll find...

FamilySearch/Training/What is new at The FHG
March 26, 2023

New in The Family History Guide: Show Me Slides

If you have been using any of the Learning Paths (FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Findmypast) in The Family History Guide, you are probably familiar with the Show Me videos, accessed in the header (Goal) area of the page. They are brief videos on our YouTube Channel that take you through various Learning Path Goals from a visual perspective, so you...

FamilySearch/Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
March 26, 2023

Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide

Recently we published a new video on our YouTube Channel: Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide. As you probably know, we have a Faiths menu on the website, with resources for the Church of Jesus Christ as well as Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish research. But there are other locations in The Family History Guide where you can find...

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March 13, 2023

New: Introduction Video for The Family History Guide

We have a new video that gives you a guided tour of The Family History Guide website in just under 40 minutes. It covers the highlights of the site with navigation and examples, narrated by Bob Taylor, the creator of The Family History Guide. The video also has three “try it” inserts where you can pause the video and visit...

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February 5, 2023

Quick Prep for Classes: A Case Study

On January 31 I presented a webinar for the “Texas Connect” project of the East Texas Genealogical Society. It covered Texas state research and African American research, using The Family History Guide. I prepared the content using the Quick Prep approach in the Trainers menu (https://www.thefhguide.com/train-quick-prep.html): Select interesting articles and videos from TFHG to show and discuss. Log in to...

Training/What is new at The FHG
November 14, 2022

New: The Family History Guide Q&A Center

We’re happy to announce an exciting new feature in The Family History Guide—the Q&A Center. This tool can be used both for individual self-study and for training family history consultants or trainers. In The Family History Guide, you can access the Q&A Center in the Intro menu or in the Trainers menu. About the Q&A Center It’s fitting that The...

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November 14, 2022

New: The Consultant Training Tools Page

Being a family history trainer or consultant is a great opportunity, but sometimes it can be challenging coming up to speed with everything there is to know. Have a look at our new page in the Trainers menu: Consultant Training Tools. This page is designed for anyone who does family history training, such as Temple and Family History Consultants, instructors,...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
September 26, 2022

In Transition: Certified Trainers Are Now Volunteer Instructors

The Family History Guide Association has maintained a Certified Trainers program for a number of years, where people can take a certification quiz, get registered, and have their contact information appear on a web page so people can reach out to them for training needs. We want to thank all those who have served as Certified Trainers and let everyone...

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July 24, 2022

Helping Others with The Family History Guide

Several months ago, the BYU Family History Library published an excellent webinar by Kathryn Grant titled “Helping Others Learn to Love and Do Family History.” The link to the video is provided below for your convenience. In the video, Kathryn makes a number of useful points about things to avoid and things to do when helping others with their family...

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