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April 13, 2025

Update: Introduction Video for 2025

We recently uploaded a revised Introduction to The Family History Video, for 2025. You can find it on our YouTube Channel, and it’s included below for your convenience. It highlights the recent changes to the home page, the top menu revisions, and several new features in The Family History Guide. You can also find this video on the home page,...

Training/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

April 13, 2025

New QRB Video: Starting Research in Hungary

This week we added a new QRB (Quick Research Basics) video by James Tanner, for beginning research in Hungary. This brings the total number of QRB videos on our YouTube Channel to 91. The video is embedded at the start of the Hungary country page, and it’s also included below for your convenience. Enjoy!

Country Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

April 5, 2025

Update: Getting Started Page

If you have visited The Family History Guide in the last week or so, you probably noticed a difference in the Home page. The six tiles that were previously on the left (Learn about Us, Learn FamilySearch, Enjoy Activities, Begin to Research, Explore Countries, Find Your Family) have been replaced with a single Get Started tile. This simplifies the Home...

Learning/Navigation/What is new at The FHG

April 5, 2025

Dates for Viewpoint Broadcasts

The Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project recently sent us the following message: “The national airing of your commercial is set to take place on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 during Prime Time on Fox Business Network (FBN).” Viewpoint will send exact times for the airings once they are received from the Network, which is typically 24-48 hours in advance. We will...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 29, 2025

The FamilyHistory Guide in Feedspot’s Top 70 American History Blogs

Recently we pleased to find that we were selected as part of Feedspot’s Top 70 American History Blogs. Here’s the announcement from Feedspot’s founder, Anuj Agarwal: “I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog The Family History Guide Blog has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 70 American History Blogs on the web.” According to Feedspot, the selection...

Social Media

March 29, 2025

New: RootsTech 2025 Links in The Family History Guide

When you browse the RootsTech 2025 library, you’ll find a huge assortment of videos on a wide variety of topics. Over the past few weeks we have pored through the RootsTech 2025 videos and selected over 100 of the best ones to link to in The Family History Guide. Categories include research in the United States and other countries, research...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

March 23, 2025

RootsTech 2025 Webinar: Training with The Family History Guide

Rootstech 2025 is now in the books, but the good memories still linger. I was able to present a webinar at Roots on Training with The Family History Guide. The webinar is designed for anyone who may be doing family history training or mentoring, such as family history consultants, trainers, librarians, and genealogical society leaders. It also provides some key...

RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG

March 23, 2025

Update: Google Translate Buttons

For a number of years, we have had Select Language buttons for Google Translate on the website. This allows you to translate the site into any of the 100 or so languages that Google Translate supports. Recently there has been an issue on the site with the buttons not always behaving reliably. Sometimes they were switching to horizontal view instead...

Technology/What is new at The FHG

March 15, 2025

RootsTech 2025: A Photo Gallery

In past articles we shared some thoughts about our experiences at RootsTech 2025. Here’s a final thought by one of our great booth volunteers for The Family History Guide, followed by an assortment of photos that capture some of the memories of The Family History Guide Association at RootsTech 2025 … From Kathryn – “I loved working in the Family...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG

March 15, 2025

New in the Menu: Research Skills

For those who are new to The Family History Guide website, it might be a bit tricky knowing that the topics for research skills are found in Project 4, for each Learning Path. So we have added “Research Skills” in the main menu to make it easier to get to them. (You can still find them using the Learning Paths...

Research/What is new at The FHG