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April 25, 2022

Indexes in The Family History Guide

It’s no secret that The Family History Guide website covers a lot of information. Although it doesn’t contain source records (it points to sites where the records can be found), it has links to thousands of great articles and videos, plus hundreds of useful websites, databases, and family history activities. These resources are included in our Learning System, so you...

Learning/Navigation

April 18, 2022

New Additions to The Family History Guide

Over the past month or so we’ve been busy adding new links to The Family History Guide from RootsTech and other sources. Here’s a brief summary of what’s new in the website. RootsTech 2022 We’ve added links to over 200 videos from RootsTech 2022, in a wide variety of categories. Here’s a small sampling, with the locations in The Family...

What is new at The FHG

April 18, 2022

Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May, Episode #3

Episode 3 of Live and Unrehearsed Genealogy Research from Goldie May is now online. You can watch the episode below, or on on the Goldie May YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnS71e7GEI Here’s a note about the video, from James Tanner, one of the co-hosts of the series: “Richard Miller, the developer of the Goldie May app and website, and I have started...

Research/Training/U.S. Research

April 18, 2022

Stories of Gathering My Family History

Note: This article was published previously on the Granite Family history center website. My early experiences with family history were overwhelming and daunting. Once, when I was at the Salt Lake Family History Library, I looked through a book with a line of my ancestors and noticed a vital date for my father was wrong. When no one was looking,...

Memories/Research

April 10, 2022

New Video: Mapping Your Roots

We’ve added a new video to our YouTube Channel: Mapping Your Roots, by Miles Meyer. It’s from a presentation he did for The Genealogy Show this month, and it covers essential map concepts for research, such as historical place names, online sites, land and property resources, etc. The video is in the Quick Research Basics playlist and is included below...

Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

April 10, 2022

Genealogy Research … Live

Watching an artisan or craftsman at work can be an enlightening experience. Whether it’s a musician practicing, an architect drawing a plan, or a sculptor molding clay, you can often see the creative and technical flows coming together. Two genealogy “artisans” of note are James Tanner, blogger, presenter, and Chairman of The Family History Guide Association; and Richard Miller, software...

Research/Training/U.S. Research/YouTube

April 10, 2022

1950 U.S. Census Project Moving Rapidly Forward

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. If you go to the FamilySearch 1950 U.S. Census Project page at https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/1950 you will see that four states have been completed and that only two more are open right now (as of the date of this post). Checking handwriting recognition from Ancestry.com is a different experience from indexing. The...

Ancestry/FamilySearch

April 4, 2022

BYU Family History Webinar: The Family History Guide, Tips and Tricks

On April 7 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time, I will present a free webinar for the BYU Family History Library, titled “The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks.” Here are a few of the topics that I will cover in the presentation: What’s New in The Family History Guide Finding What You Need Hidden Gems Tools for Success The Vault...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube

April 4, 2022

Dates for the Vault

A popular feature of The Family History Guide is the Vault, where there are links to about 1,400 articles and 900 videos. The links are arranged by category, with shortcuts at the top of the page for easy access. These articles and videos extend from 2022 back to 2000, with the majority being more recent. We are in the process...

What is new at The FHG

April 4, 2022

Great Databases, Part 6

Here’s Part 6 in the Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. See also the previous blog articles in the series for more databases to explore. China My China Roots, Zupus—Search for family tree books (Zupus) of ancestors in China, by first and last name. Global Archives Portal Europe—”The Archives...

Records/Research