If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the new entry in the Trainers menu: Presenting TFHG  (The Family History Guide). It’s a guide for preparing and delivering a full, customizable presentation of the website, in 50 minutes or less.

There are two main sections on the page: Guidance Slides and Doing the Presentation. The full presentation uses both the slides and the live website.

Guidance Slides

The Guidance Slides are simple: they have titles to help you remember what to show next in the presentation, but they don’t contain detailed information about the web pages. That way, you don’t have to recreate or re-download slide details when the site content changes. That said, each PowerPoint slide has helpful notes to help you prepare your narration. Items in the notes with asterisks are suggestions for things to do; bullet items in the notes are for informational items.

You can customize the deck, trimming it down as needed or even adding slides for things you want to highlight that aren’t included in the default slide deck.

Doing the Presentation

In the presentation you show a slide with the title of the website feature or page, and then you show that web page on your screen. When presenting remotely, make sure that your entire screen is being shared, not just a single browser window, so both the slides and website will appear.

You may want to minimize the slides so they take up less room and don’t obscure the website page too much. An example of this is shown below; for more details, see the Presenting TFHG page.

BYU Webinar video to be posted soon …

A 45-minute webinar that highlights the Presenting TFHG page and other training tools will be available soon. Among other things, it demonstrates how to create family history training classes quickly and easily using The Family History Guide website. Be sure to check our Facebook Groups, and a blog article will appear next week with more details.

Good luck with all your training efforts, and thanks for making The Family History Guide a part of your plans!