September 17, 2023

Help for the Absolute Genealogy Beginner

Last week, FamilySearch held a RootsTech preview event, an all-day live broadcast with presenters every hour. One of the presentations was titled “Help for the Absolute Genealogy Beginner” by James Tanner. This video, as well as the others in the event, are now up on the FamilySearch.org YouTube Channel. The BYU Library Family History Center also broadcast the video on...

Learning
September 10, 2023

New QRB Video: Researching Genealogical Records in Italy

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Researching Genealogical Records in Italy, by James Tanner. This is the second in a two-part series on Italian research. You can view this latest video in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Italy country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and stay...

Country Research/Research
September 10, 2023

RootsTech 2024 Live Classes September 13, 2023 and Registration Opens on September 18, 2023

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Start blog site.   https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/events/genealogy-for-beginners RootTech 2024 is ramping up. In preparation for the live and online conference February 29th to March 2nd, 2024. The live conference will be held in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. Online classes will be available at the beginning of the conference. I will...

RootsTech
August 27, 2023

Getting Excited About Family History!

“Our Turtle House” is a popular and inspirational YouTube channel with over 35,000 subscribers. On August 20, Mark Williams hosted a livestream session with family history experts Shenley Puterbaugh and Scott and Angelle Anderson (the latter two who are members of The Family History Guide team). In the session, the guest speakers share tips and suggestions for how to make...

Families/Family History Activities/The Family History Guide Association/YouTube
August 27, 2023

5-Minute Features: QUIKLinks

One of the most popular features in The Family History Guide is QUIKLinks, which put record collections from multiple platforms at your fingertips. There are QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FIndmypast in many locations in The Family History Guide. We recently published a new 5-Minute Features video on our YouTube Channel for learning about QUIKLinks. You can watch it...

Records/Training/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
August 20, 2023

FamilySearch Training in English & Spanish, with The Family History Guide

At RootsTech 2023 we met Maribel Camarillo Gomez, who has been actively training visitors on family history at the San Diego FamilySearch Center. She helped out at our booth in the Expo Hall, helping RootsTech attendees learn more about The Family History Guide. Maribel recently put together a great training course for FamilySearch and family history basics, featuring The Family...

FamilySearch/The Family History Guide Association/Training
August 20, 2023

PhotoDater™ from MyHeritage: Another Amazing Technological Advance

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. You can read about all the details of this amazing addition to the MyHeritage.com arsenal of photographic innovations in this blog post: “Introducing PhotoDater™, an Exclusive, Free New Feature to Estimate When Old Photos Were Taken.” Here is a quote from the blog post: If you are like most genealogists,...

Memories/MyHeritage
August 13, 2023

New on Our YouTube Channel: 5-Minute Features

Today we are introducing a new playlist on our YouTube Channel. It’s called “5-Minute Features,” and it will have a number of short videos that describe how to use important features of The Family History Guide, each in about five minutes or less. The first video in the playlist has been uploaded—it’s Record Search Practice Exercises. This video gets you...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
August 13, 2023

Introduction to the 10 Million Names Project

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star site.   https://10millionnames.org/ Quoting from the Project website: 10 Million Names is a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between...

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