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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
February 23, 2020

The Demo Training Guide

We blogged earlier about the terrific volunteers who are assisting us this year at RootsTech 2020. A few weeks ago we also did an online training session for them,  to get everyone up to speed on giving demos for The Family History Guide website at RootsTech.  It occurred to us that the document we used for training, with a few...

Learning/RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG
February 8, 2020

10 Tips You May Have Missed in The Family History Guide

If you’ve been around The Family History Guide for a while you’ve probably used the Country pages, the Projects, the Activities, etc. But there are some other useful features on the website you may not have seen. Here’s a list of 10 tips for using some cool features in The Family History Guide (not in order of importance), along with...

Learning/Training
January 19, 2020

Presenting The Family History Guide at Societies and Libraries

A “ground-floor” opportunity is usually defined as a chance to enter an organization or effort at an early and influential stage. The Family History Guide has such an opportunity, albeit a volunteer one. (We are volunteers at The Family History Guide Association, so that should come as no surprise, really.) The ground-floor opportunity is this: presenting The Family History Guide...

Training
January 19, 2020

The Family History Guide Training in Nigeria

In the nation of Nigeria, family history work is especially challenging due to the limited availability of records. Most of the  genealogy is traditionally kept in oral histories, with little being written down. Also, computers and internet access are not as widespread as in many countries. But those challenges are not stopping a tireless group of consultants and family history...

Training/What is new at The FHG
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