June 21, 2020

A Gift from My Dad

It’s early on a Saturday morning in Southern California, in the late 1960’s. The aroma of fresh waffles is already starting to fill the house as I peek into the kitchen. My brother’s baseball card collection covers  about half the table (and Mom will make him clean it up before breakfast). I can already guess where Dad is: he’s probably...

Families/Family/Memories/Research
June 21, 2020

MyHeritage’s New Photo Enhancement Feature

Once again, MyHeritage has recently announced a new feature that continues to make photographs come to life. This new feature allows people to take their old photographs of their ancestors and enhance them. Essentially, the feature ‘cleans’ the photo from static and aging in a way that makes the pictures look like they came out brand new. Combined with their...

Family History Activities/MyHeritage/Technology/Uncategorized
June 21, 2020

Where was the event? Where are the records?

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. The questions in the title of this post are two separate but closely related issues. To start, I will repeat a general guideline for all genealogical researchers: The place of an event in an ancestor’s or relative’s life...

Country Research/Records/Research/U.S. Research
June 14, 2020

New in The Family History Guide: Link Titles

If you have spent some time looking through the Country and Ethnic pages in The Family History Guide, you’ll realize that there is a lot of great material there. There are thousands of links to articles, videos, websites, and research databases, organized by Goals and Choices. Several months ago we added a number of intermediate headings in Choices. These split...

Research/What is new at The FHG
June 14, 2020

How to Read an Old Document

How to read an old document Genealogists who are involved in doing their own original research inevitably run into handwritten documents that are difficult to decipher. The difficulty arises from a number of factors: the document is written in a language unknown to the researcher the creator of the document had poor handwriting skills the document is written in a...

Research
June 14, 2020

Indexing in Other Languages: An Ever-Growing Need

A few days ago, my wife decided to do some indexing via FamilySearch while I was messaging my grandmother. As we were talking, I mentioned that my wife was indexing, and my grandmother made the following comment in response: “We’re running out of indexing projects for English.” This comment stuck out to me, knowing what I know about my grandmother....

Family History Activities/FamilySearch
June 7, 2020

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Here’s a recap of the latest happenings with The Family History Guide: 1. QUIKLinks Reach the 5,000 Milestone Recently we added about 50 new QUIKLinks in The Family History Guide to record collections from FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast. That puts the total number at over 5,000 (and growing). You can find QUIKLinks where you see the lightning-bolt icons in...

What is new at The FHG
June 7, 2020

Freedom on the Move: How Runaway Ads Contribute to African-American Family History

With the events going on at this time, many people are looking back in history to reflect on the difficult journey to freedom for minorities in the United States, particularly the black population. Anyone who has taken a U. S. History course should be aware of the horrific institution of slavery and its overall impact on not just U.S. society,...

Family History Activities/Research
June 7, 2020

Genealogy and Paleography: How Are They Complementary?

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. William Shakespeare’s Will by an unknown scribe – Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1382708 I can assume that if you have been reading this blog at all previous to this post that you already know something about genealogy. But I...

Research
May 31, 2020

The Family History Guide on Facebook

As you probably know, The Family History Guide has two associated Facebook pages: Our public page, at https://www.facebook.com/TheFamilyHistoryGuide A private Group for trainers and consultants, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefhguidetraining/   If you are interested in joining the Group, please request membership. For the past few weeks, we have been adding helpful family history tips to these pages, with a wide variety of topics...

Facebook/Research/Social Media/What is new at The FHG
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