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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...

Training
June 12, 2022

Introducing the Quick Prep Page

One of the singular features of The Family History Guide is that you can teach just about any family history topic right from the website, without needed to prepare slide decks or handouts. In the Trainers menu there is a Worksheets page where you can download a worksheet that helps you outline each class you want to teach. Introducing “Quick...

Training/What is new at The FHG
May 1, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May: Episodes 4 and 5

James Tanner and Richard Miller are back at it again, with new episodes of their popular “Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May.” Each episode is designed to take you behind the scenes of expert genealogists tackling research problems in real time. This approach is quite the opposite of the traditional after-the-fact reporting of most research articles and videos....

Research/Training/U.S. Research
April 25, 2022

Presentations for The Family History Guide

We recently delivered a hour-long online presentation about The Family History Guide to the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society (MCGS) located in Wisconsin. The presentation was well-received, and here are a few of the comments from the session: “With all this, why would I want to search anywhere else? This is a fantastic website. Thank you so much for presenting this.”...

Training/What is new at The FHG
April 18, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May, Episode #3

Episode 3 of Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May is now online. You can watch the episode below, or on on the Goldie May YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnS71e7GEI Here’s a note about the video, from James Tanner, one of the co-hosts of the series: “Richard Miller, the developer of the Goldie May app and website, and I have started...

Research/Training/U.S. Research
April 10, 2022

Genealogy Research … Live

Watching an artisan or craftsman at work can be an enlightening experience. Whether it’s a musician practicing, an architect drawing a plan, or a  sculptor molding clay, you can often see the creative and technical flows coming together. Two genealogy “artisans” of note are James Tanner, blogger, presenter, and Chairman of The Family History Guide Association; and Richard Miller, software...

Research/Training/U.S. Research/YouTube
February 20, 2022

Upcoming Events for The Family History Guide Association

The next few months are busy one for The Family History Guide Association. Here are some of the presentations we will be doing, through the end of April. Note that more events may be added to this list. Feb. 27 – Presentation for Kingston, Jamaica family history consultants (Miles Meyer) Mar, 3-5 – RootsTech 2022 (numerous video presentations and panel...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG
December 6, 2021

Using Chrome Remote Desktop to Help Others

Helping others with their family history can be a rewarding but also challenging experience. Sometimes a verbal explanation is enough, or referring them to a resource like The Family History Guide for following steps, reading articles, or watching videos. Other times you can give a demonstration of what to do, using your own computer or device. But there are some...

Technology/Training
September 12, 2021

New BYU Webinar Video for The Family History Guide

Last week a new video was published on the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel: Teaching Family History with The Family History Guide. It is already proving to be one of the most popular of recent videos on the channel. You can also view the video on the Trainers Home page in The Family History Guide. Here are the topics...

Training/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
September 5, 2021

New: Presenting The Family History Guide

If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the new entry in the Trainers menu: Presenting TFHG  (The Family History Guide). It’s a guide for preparing and delivering a full, customizable presentation of the website, in 50 minutes or less. There are two main sections on the page: Guidance Slides and Doing the Presentation. The full presentation...

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