July 24, 2022

Helping Others with The Family History Guide

Several months ago, the BYU Family History Library published an excellent webinar by Kathryn Grant titled “Helping Others Learn to Love and Do Family History.” The link to the video is provided below for your convenience. In the video, Kathryn makes a number of useful points about things to avoid and things to do when helping others with their family...

Training
July 24, 2022

Youth Family History and the Pioneer Experience

Each Friday the Hi Five Live Facebook group records a video about inspirational topics. The July 1 recording, titled “Walking with Our Ancestors,” featured youth who had completed a pioneer trek re-enactment and spoke to the value of family history in bringing youth and families together. In the video, hosts Scott and Angelle Anderson interviewed Annie Christensen, Connor Pedersen, Abby...

Uncategorized
July 24, 2022

Goldie May Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research #16: Looking for a Female Ancestor’s Maiden Name

Note: This article was previously published on the Genealogy’s Star blogsite.   https://youtu.be/-ECMTN-wpaIEpisode 16 of the Goldie May Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research series is now online. In this episode we take on the task of trying to find an ancestor’s maiden name. We work through many of the possibilities where research might show up a maiden name. The purpose of...

Research/U.S. Research
July 18, 2022

New BYU FHL Video: Research with The Family History Guide

On Thursday, July 7 we recorded a new webinar video for the BYU Family History Library, titled Research with The Family History Guide. It covers the following important areas of research: Research Intro—How to use the collector page for research in The Family History Guide Sources—Introducing genealogy sources and their importance Research Basics—Getting organized, basic research concepts, and strategies to...

Ancestry/Country Research/FamilySearch/FS Partners/Records/Research/U.S. Research
July 18, 2022

Interviewing Parents about their Younger Days

Note: This guest article was contributed by family history blogger Rachel Merashi.   Here are some questions to ask your parents about their youth and how it influenced them. We’re all losing out on the chance to speak about the essential things in our lives with our parents as time goes by. They are the only ones who can provide...

Memories
July 18, 2022

New Goldie May Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research: Multiple Episodes

Note: This article was previously published on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://youtu.be/rW2KO0e8hvw Episode 15 – I was out of town and got behind in posting additional Unrehearsed Genealogy Research: Multiple Episodes from Goldie May. Here are the links to the ones I missed. https://youtu.be/5PMWa_vUwBA Episode 12 https://youtu.be/QyWfzZ7xBNg Episode 13 https://youtu.be/8cMfAanTHEM Episode 14 These three episodes feature Richard Miller working with Nicole Elder...

Country Research/Research
July 10, 2022

Family History: The Great Connector

You’ve heard them before … those time-worn reasons that people give for not becoming involved in family history. (And being involved really means doing anything meaningful in that area, not necessarily becoming a genealogist). Here are two of the most common ones: “I don’t have the time.” “Aunt Clara [or name a favorite relative] does all the genealogy in our...

General/Learning/Research
July 10, 2022

The Sixth Rule of Genealogy

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Rule Number Six is “Records Move.”  Upon reflection, it is quite easy for even experienced genealogical researchers to find themselves in a situation where they ignore and are trapped by one of these basic rules of genealogy.  One common situation addressed by Rule Six while researching in the...

Records/Research
July 10, 2022

Update: Even More Video Info Buttons

The work continues for adding video Info buttons in The Family History Guide. There are now over 330 videos on the site that have Info buttons. You can click an Info button and it will display a list of helpful topic links inside the video, so you can jump directly to that location without having to scroll through. This also...

What is new at The FHG
July 4, 2022

Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence on Findmypast.com

Note: This article appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Findmypast.com has added about 18,000 records documenting the descendants of the fifty-six men who signed the United States Declaration of Independence. Quoting from the website, These records document the descendants of these 56 men and offer a standardized lineage, which allows family historians to determine any possible connection to the...

Research/U.S. Research
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