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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,...

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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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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...

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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.”...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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