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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...

Training

March 22, 2020

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Recently we changed up the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide a bit. We have consolidated a few of the entries, and we have introduced the Trainer’s Corner, a place to find great tips and resources for training. Here’s a look at what you’ll find in the new Trainer’s Corner page: Instructor Prep and Delivery This section combines several...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 22, 2020

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. After living through the effects of last week’s announcements about the Coronavirus COVID-19 and the fact that many schools across the United States are now temporarily closed, it seems to me to be a natural extension of the school...

General/The Family History Guide Association/Training

March 16, 2020

Introducing the Sample Outlines

In an earlier article, Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines, we described the concept of using a sample course outline to prepare family history courses. The Sample Outline can be modified to suit your needs as you teach family history topics right from The Family History Guide website. We have recently added several Sample Outlines to The Family...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 9, 2020

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines

I recently posted the following in our Facebook Trainers & Consultants page: “Last week I taught a one-hour class on newspaper research at our local family history center. I was filling in for an instructor who couldn’t make it. I had a few days to prepare, but rather than put together a slide deck I decided to teach the class...

Training/What is new at The FHG

Category: Training

Online Fall 2020 Classes from the Sandy Granite FHC

Update: Sample Outlines for Training

Update: Ancestry Academy Videos

Introducing Our New Education Director, Miles Meyer

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

Retired Pages in The Family History Guide

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Introducing the Sample Outlines

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines