Category: YouTube

New on Our YouTube Channel: Language Playlists

As you probably know, most of the videos in our YouTube Channel have formatted subtitles available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino. You can also get unformatted subtitles (without punctuation, editing improvements, etc.) for any of the 100 or so languages supported by Google Translate. Recently we have taken language support a step further, by...

New Videos on our YouTube Channel

It has been a busy  couple of weeks for our YouTube Channel, and that’s a good thing! We have recently added six new Quick Research Basics videos by Miles Meyer, our Education Director, and two new Show Me videos by James Tanner, our Chairman of the Board of The Family History Guide Association: QRB: Intro to European Archives QRB: Intro...

Why I Absolutely Love The Family History Guide

Recently, Chris Jones produced another excellent video for us. This one, primarily from a youth perspective, is titled “Why I Absolutely Love The Family History Guide.” It features several youth posing and answering questions about the importance of being involved in family history, and how to get started. The video is on the YouTube Channel, and it’s included in the...

Embedded Videos in The Family History Guide

When you browse through different Projects in The Family History Guide, you’ll see that we now have embedded YouTube videos that you can watch right on the page. (The United States Project has a lot of these, for example.) The embedded videos on the page can also be expanded to full-screen mode. Below is an example of a page with...

New on YouTube: Explorations Series

In recent months we’ve been busy adding content to the Country pages in The Family History Guide, leading up to an exciting new piece to the puzzle: the Explorations Series of videos on our YouTube Channel. Each video highlights the features of a particular Country page, with some cool footage and a link that takes you directly to the page. ...

New and Updated Videos

We’ve been busy on our YouTube Channel adding and updating videos for your enjoyment. Here are the two new videos we recently added: Ancestry Show Me video, Project 2: Family Tree, Goal 1 (covers tree navigation) Ancestry Show Me Video, Project 2: Family Tree, Goal 2 (covers editing person information) And here are the updated videos: The Family History Guide...

New Show Me Videos and Country Page Updates

On our YouTube Channel there are quite a few Show Me videos for FamilySearch Goals. We now have two new Ancestry Show Me videos on the channel, with more Ancestry videos to come: Ancestry Project 1, Goal 1: Account and Tree Setup Ancestry Project 1, Goal 3: Customize Your Homepage   Country Page Updates We are making enhancements and additions...