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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

March 7, 2021

Revisiting the Vault

In The Family History Guide, the Vault is somewhat like the back room of a bookstore: you’ll find some extra treasures of learning there, with a little bit of digging. Recently we have made that “digging” process a bit easier with the following enhancements—we hope you enjoy the enhanced Vault page! Improved Organization We have moved a few links to...

What is new at The FHG

March 7, 2021

Family History for Youth – Upcoming Class

Angelle Anderson will present a free class for the Sandy Granite family history center on how to get youth involved in family history and loving it! Here’s the information for the upcoming class: Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9 Time: 7 p.m. Mountain Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373988340?pwd=bjMxcVB5Y3pJSzExTCtFbGxJcWt1UT09 If you are unable to attend, you can view a recording of the class on the Sandy...

Family History Activities/Training

March 7, 2021

Goldie May Updates

The popular Goldie May extension for the Chrome browser now includes a few updates worth noting. Here’s a summary of what has been added and updated in Goldie May recently: New look to the tabs: The “Guidance” and “Your Research” tabs and their information have been streamlined. Research Log updates: Improvements were made to note taking, and a summary/abstract feature has...

What is new at The FHG

February 28, 2021

RootsTech Recap for The Family History Guide

Saturday evening on Feb. 27 marked the close of RootsTech Connect 2021. Although the event has come to an end, it will continue to live on, virtually. The numerous video sessions that were recorded will be available for free, for a full year. More about that later in this article … First, some numbers: Stats for Nerds A few days...

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

February 28, 2021

Partnership Videos: FamilySearch and The Family History Guide

RootsTech this year was a video extravaganza, with hundreds of videos to choose from on a wide variety of family history topics. There were keynote addresses, class sessions, panel discussions, an Expo Hall, and more. The Family History Guide Association was privileged to work with FamilySearch in producing two special videos that were featured in the Beginner’s learning track at...

Family History Activities/Research/RootsTech/What is new at The FHG