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December 22, 2019

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide Association

It is truly a most wonderful time of the year! To our Christian friends, we wish you a joyous Christmas, remembering the transcendent gift of a Savior born to us in a simple manger in Bethlehem. To our Jewish friends, we wish you a happy Hanukkah week—may your menorahs shine brightly in the Festival of Lights! We thank you for...

The Family History Guide Association/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG

November 2, 2019

The Family History Guide: Q & A

First question: Where’s the basic Q&A page in The Family History Guide? Answer: It’s pretty well known that there’s an FAQ link in the Intro menu, which discusses basic items bout the website and The Family History Guide Association. Second question: What about other questions? Answer: Let’s dive in and explore 10 other questions you might be wondering about …...

General/Learning/Training/Uncategorized

August 25, 2019

James Tanner at the MyHeritage Conference in Amsterdam

From September 6-8, 2019, MyHeritage will be hosting its annual user conference “MyHeritage Live!” It’s held at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in The Netherlands, and there will be a wide variety of classes, computer labs, and Q&A sessions across the three days. We are honored to have the Chairman of The Family History Guide Association, James Tanner, speaking at the...

MyHeritage/Uncategorized

May 26, 2019

New QUIKLinks for FamilySearch and Findmypast

In The Family History Guide, QUIKLinks are a handy tool that helps you get right to a search screen for finding the types of records you want to search. There are QUIKLinks available for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast record collections. Here’s a simulated QUIKLinks section from The Family History Guide, with links enabled so you can see how they...

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April 14, 2019

Discover, Gather, and Connect Your Family

At RootsTech 2019, Scott and Angelle Anderson shared the stage with Merrill White of FamilySearch to deliver a powerful presentation. They demonstrated how engaging in meaningful family history activities can connect families together in love. Scott, our Public Relations Director, and Angelle, our Marketing Director, highlighted activities from The Family History Guide, while Merrill introduced the new In-Home Activities on...

Church Of Jesus Christ/Family History Activities/FamilySearch/RootsTech/Uncategorized

January 14, 2019

The Family History Guide To The Rescue

One of the reasons I am so excited about The Family History Guide is that I remember the day in 2010 when I began working at a Family Search Library. Although I had been doing my own family history since the early 80s, I had no idea what was available electronically or in the stacks of books, periodicals, films, and microfiche in the library. I had no...

General/Learning/Training/Uncategorized

December 2, 2018

Learning More About Family Search Partner Websites

In 2016 FamilySearch announced the addition of partnering with other big genealogy database companies that have millions of records, subscribers, and great technology. These partnerships became a win/win for FamilySearch, Ancestry, Findmypast and My Heritage. The last three are all commercial websites that are competing with one another. When FamilySearch, a free website, proposed sharing records for indexing records and...

FS Partners/General/Learning/Technology/Uncategorized

April 2, 2018

Announcing Info Links

Ever wish you could get a glimpse inside an article (or video), before you actually decided to open it? Well now you can … with our new Info Links. What’s an Info Link? An Info Link is an information icon that appears next to an article title. A sample Info Link (circled “i”) is shown below, at the right of...

Learning/Navigation/Technology/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG

March 14, 2018

Triple the Smiles, with AmazonSmile

As you might know, The Family History Guide Association participates in the AmazonSmile program, where you can designate your favorite public charity organization (like us!) to receive AmazonSmile donations when you shop at Amazon. Well, things got even better: first purchases with AmazonSmile now get triple the donations for a limited time. Read on for details, and thanks for your...

The Family History Guide Association/Uncategorized

October 22, 2017

Learning from the Best!

My husband, Jim, and I have spent an incredible week in Utah. This is my first time back to Utah since I joined the Family History Guide staff as the Social Media Coordinator. Last Saturday I went to the Springville Family History Center’s Springville Family History Fair. It was a full day of wonderful speakers. First I listened to Robert Kehrer,...