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April 28, 2019

5 Steps to Improving Your Family History Experience

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by James Tanner on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and used with the author’s permission.   When you are working on researching your family history, you can easily get sidetracked by failing to focus on the fundamentals of historical research. Sometimes finding an obvious match for your ancestor will send you off on...

Country Research/Records/Research/U.S. Research
April 8, 2019

A DNA Test May Not Automatically Overcome a Brick Wall Situation

Editor’s Note: This article was previously posted on the Genealogy’s Star blog site by James Tanner and is used with the author’s permission. The term “brick wall” as used in the genealogical sense refers to an end-of-line situation where the next generation ancestor or even some other relative cannot be easily found. Of course, this could be the researcher’s parent...

Country Research/DNA/Technology/U.S. Research
March 30, 2019

New from the FamilySearch Learning Center

FamilySearch has added quite a few training videos in the past few months to their Learning Center. We have gone through the list and selected over 50 new videos to link from The Family History Guide. As you would imagine, we have placed them on our site with “just-in-time” learning in mind—you find them where you need them. Below is...

Country Research/FamilySearch/Learning/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
March 24, 2019

Searching through Layers of Sources to Find Your Ancestors

Editor’s Note: This article, written by James Tanner, was originally published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. It is probably evident that all sources are not created equal. Some are much more equal than others. (Attribution to George Orwell). As I have been doing research, I have noticed that source records are often...

Records/U.S. Research
December 10, 2018

Handling Dead Ends in Your Trees, Part Two

Editor’s Note: Thanks to our guest blogger, Karen Meyer, currently serving as an Area Temple and Family History Consultant in the Scottsdale (AZ) Coordinating Council, for this blog post. In Part Two,  she outlines other common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them. You can read the Part One article here. Problem #5: Is it possible...

Case Studies/U.S. Research
December 3, 2018

Resolving Dead Ends in Trees, Part One

Editor’s Note: Thanks to our guest blogger, Karen Meyer, currently serving as an Area Temple and Family History Consultant in the Scottsdale (AZ) Coordinating Council, for this blog post. In Part One,  she outlines some common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them.   Problem #1: Too many Census Data Sheets for the same year. One...

Ancestry/Records/U.S. Research
December 1, 2018

The Family History Guide: Essentials for Everyone

One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of The Family History Guide is that it offers something useful and important to just about everyone. We’ve done a bit of thinking on this topic and come up with a list of 10 family history “audiences” and what might appeal to them in The Family History Guide. Some of us, of...

Ancestry/Country Research/FamilySearch/General/Navigation/Records/Technology/Training/U.S. Research
October 7, 2018

Update: Tracker Links and County Links

We’ve recently added a number of useful links to The Family history Guide, in two categories: Word Tracker sheets County resources for U.S. state pages Word Trackers The Word Tracker sheets list all the Goals and Choices for each Project in The Family History Guide. We have added links to each Goal title in the Trackers, so you can go...

Navigation/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
September 23, 2018

Inside the Guide: Organizing Your Research

Doing family history research can sometimes be like turning on a fire hose, as a flood of information comes pouring in to your room. Some of it is essential, and some is nice-to-know, but anything thing worth keeping is worth organizing so you can find it quickly in the future. This article provides a few tips on organizing your research,...

Country Research/General/U.S. Research
August 5, 2018

Inside the Guide: Warming Up to Research

For many of us who are new to genealogy, the thought of diving into research can be a bit intimidating. And what some people experience by “diving in” is that the research waters are too deep, too cold, or too far across. What we might need is an experience that feels more like a heated lap pool, rather than the...

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