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December 28, 2020

Winter Online Class Schedule: Sandy Granite Family History Center

The new year—2021—will soon be here, along with a new class schedule from the Sandy Granite family history center. Each Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time, a free online class will be presented via Zoom. To attend any of the classes, simply access the following link about 15 minutes before the class: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373988340?pwd=bjMxcVB5Y3pJSzExTCtFbGxJcWt1UT09 Classes will be recorded and posted...

Learning/Training
September 27, 2020

The Updated Trainers Menu

We’ve done a bit of a makeover on the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide, simplifying the entries and adding a new Prepare a Class page. Here’s a summary of what’s new and improved in the Trainers menu. Prepare a Class The Prepare a Class page helps you with step-by-step instructions for preparing the classes you want to teach,...

Training/What is new at The FHG
September 13, 2020

New in The Family History Guide: The Tour

About a month ago we introduced a Get Started page that is driven by common questions that people ask about family history and genealogy. The page has links to pages in The Family History Guide that answer these questions, helping you get off to a good start in your family history journey. But what if you are new to The...

Learning/Navigation/Training/What is new at The FHG
August 23, 2020

Blinded by a Pedigree Chart

Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. This is an example of the “standard” or traditional pedigree chart used by genealogists in this format and many other similar formats for hundreds of years, primarily, in Western European countries. Here is an example of one from...

Research/Training
July 26, 2020

Online Fall 2020 Classes from the Sandy Granite FHC

The Sandy Granite Family History Center is excited to announce its Fall 2020 schedule of online classes. Although the Center is currently closed to in-person visits, its website (www.granitefhc.com) is operational and frequently updated. We will post another article about this schedule about a week before the classes start in September, including the link for attending each session online. We...

Technology/Training
May 3, 2020

Update: Sample Outlines for Training

We’ve recently added the following Sample Outlines for training with The Family History Guide: FS2.5-Uploading-Tagging-Photos FS2.7-Documents-Stories-Audio FS3.1-Descendancy-Research   These are Word files that you can download and customize as needed. More Sample Outlines will be added in the coming weeks. You can find the current list in Sample Outlines, in the Trainers menu. Updated Headings We have also updated the...

Training/What is new at The FHG
April 26, 2020

Update: Ancestry Academy Videos

Ancestry Academy has published training videos on a wide variety of genealogy topics. many of which are linked from The Family History Guide. You may not be aware that recently Ancestry Academy has made some changes in their video catalog. Here’s a summary: The URL formats for most of the articles have changed. The new URLs are included in The...

Ancestry/Navigation/Research/Training/U.S. Research
April 12, 2020

Introducing Our New Education Director, Miles Meyer

We are excited to announce that Miles Meyer is joining us as our new Education Director. We have some important new initiatives we are starting for training, and Miles will be directly involved with them. Here are several of the items: Establishing a strategy for remote training Organizing a new Volunteer Presenters program Expansion of the Certified Trainers program A...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG
March 29, 2020

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

Last week we featured an article written by James Tanner about the new Goldie May research assistant. It’s a powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension that helps you track your research progress on FamilySearch. This week we are excited to announce that Goldie May has been selected as an Authorized Training Partner for The Family History Guide Association. What This Means...

FamilySearch/Training/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
March 29, 2020

Retired Pages in The Family History Guide

Following suggestions from FamilySearch, we are retiring the Train Consultants and Leadership Resources pages in The Family History Guide. This is to avoid any possible misunderstanding about providing guidance in callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch continues to approve The Family History Guide as a training resource (see the link at the bottom of our...

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