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April 4, 2021

Telling the Stories of All 400,000+ US World War II Fallen

Note: This article is by Don Milne, creator of Stories Behind the Stars. Flash forward four years to 2025. Take your smartphone to your local cemetery and look for the gravesite of any of the 400,000+ World War II fallen. Use the Stories Behind the Stars app and scan the name of the fallen person with your phone camera. Instantly,...

Stories

March 28, 2021

Spring Term for Online Classes, Sandy Granite FHC

The schedule for the spring term of online classes at the Sandy Granite family history center is now ready. These are free Zoom classes, each starting at 7 p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesday evenings. To attend any of the classes, visit the Classes page on granitefhc.com, click the class title, and follow the link that appears. Recordings of the classes are...

Learning/Training

March 28, 2021

What’s New in The Family History Guide – 3/29/2021

Here is a summary list of updates made to The Family History Guide website, as of Mar. 29, 2021: 3-29-2021 – In the County sections for U.S. states, added links to Facebook genealogy groups. 3-22-2021 – Added a new Quick Research Basics video for England Civil Registration, narrated by Kathryn Grant. 3-22-2021 – Updated the Show Me video for FamilySearch...

What is new at The FHG

March 28, 2021

Memories From My Basement

Note: This article by Cheryl Ferrara was originally posted on the Sandy Granite family history center’s blog site and is used with the center’s permission. Often good things come to us through our struggles. One of the blessings I have received while navigating my way through pandemic restrictions and limitations has been the gift of time. My mother passed away...

Memories/Stories

March 22, 2021

New Videos for Quick Research Basics and Show Me

There are two new videos this week on our YouTube Channel: England Civil Registration (Quick Research Basics) FamilySearch Project 1, Goal 11: Merging Records (Show Me) England Civil Registration We are excited to have Kathryn Grant as the creator and narrator of this new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video. She is an instructional designer and genealogy expert, well-known for her...

Learning/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

March 22, 2021

Getting Family History Help with Facebook Groups

Several years ago my friend Sue Maxwell introduced me to an interesting family history resource: Genealogy on Facebook. The site takes you to a free PDF by Katherine Willson that you can download. It has links to Facebook groups that deal with many aspects of genealogy, including geographical research, surnames, societies and more. There are even links to Facebook groups...

Learning/Social Media

March 22, 2021

Genealogy in a Zoom World

Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. During the recent RootsTech Connect 2021 Conference, I participated in an outreach program sponsored by the Salt Lake City, Utah Family History Library. The Family History Library has an extensive system of online consultations. Here is a screenshot...

Research/RootsTech/Technology/Training

March 14, 2021

New on Our YouTube Channel: Language Playlists

As you probably know, most of the videos in our YouTube Channel have formatted subtitles available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino. You can also get unformatted subtitles (without punctuation, editing improvements, etc.) for any of the 100 or so languages supported by Google Translate. Recently we have taken language support a step further, by...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube

March 14, 2021

Using the Activities Planning Sheet

There is a new feature in the Activities menu of The Family History Guide—it’s the Activities Planning Sheet. This is a Google sheet that you can transfer to your device to help you plan and track family history activities. You can make a copy of the sheet and save it to your Google Drive, or you can download it as...

Family History Activities/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG

March 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Intern, Julia Cook

We are excited to welcome our newest Intern for The Family History Guide Association, Julia Cook. She is comes to us recommended by the Student Development Department at Brigham Young University. Julia has already begun working on evaluating content links in The Family History Guide, to optimize how content is arranged between the main sections of the website and the...

The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG