April 5, 2020

Home Schooling and The Family History Guide

The last month has been quite a challenging one for us all, with families and individuals adjusting to the “quarantine” life. Having enjoyable and useful activities to do has certainly come to the forefront in the minds of many. This week we are excited to announce a new feature in The Family History Guide—our Home School page. It’s an enjoyable...

What is new at The FHG
April 5, 2020

Introducing Goals for Geography, Culture, and History

Geography, culture, and history are three important but often overlooked aspects of family history. Together, they can provide a wonderful sense of context for your ancestors’ lives. Geography puts the physical framework around the places and events; culture clarifies the traditions that drive behaviors and choices; and history helps us see how external events push and pull the timelines of...

Country Research/Learning/What is new at The FHG
April 5, 2020

New Ancestry Show-Me Videos

This past week we added three new Show Me videos to The Family History Guide for Ancestry Project 2: Family Tree. Here are the links and brief descriptions for each: Project 2 Goal 3: Add or Remove People Project 2 Goal 4: Edit Relationships Project 2 Goal 5: Explore Hints You can also find these Show Me videos in the...

Ancestry/What is new at The FHG
March 29, 2020

A New Partnership: The Family History Guide and Goldie May

Last week we featured an article written by James Tanner about the new Goldie May research assistant. It’s a powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension that helps you track your research progress on FamilySearch. This week we are excited to announce that Goldie May has been selected as an Authorized Training Partner for The Family History Guide Association. What This Means...

FamilySearch/Training/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG
March 29, 2020

The World at Your Fingertips

From Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association: What to do … what to do … what to do? If you are self-quarantined and have kids and youth to entertain, The Family History Guide can help. Did you know that you can go on a world tour, right from your own home or apartment? Kids can visit...

Country Research/Families/Family History Activities/Learning
March 29, 2020

Retired Pages in The Family History Guide

Following suggestions from FamilySearch, we are retiring the Train Consultants and Leadership Resources pages in The Family History Guide. This is to avoid any possible misunderstanding about providing guidance in callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch continues to approve The Family History Guide as a training resource (see the link at the bottom of our...

Training
March 22, 2020

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Recently we changed up the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide a bit. We have consolidated a few of the entries, and we have introduced the Trainer’s Corner, a place to find great tips and resources for training. Here’s a look at what you’ll find in the new Trainer’s Corner page: Instructor Prep and Delivery This section combines several...

Training/What is new at The FHG
March 22, 2020

Goldie May, Your Research Assistant for FamilySearch

Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission.   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goldie-may/dhmlghokhgphidijmacfnmegmkkhpdik Goldie May is a free, new, innovative Chrome extension that guides users through basic genealogical research. You may or may not be acquainted with Chrome extensions but they are extremely useful and I have some I use every day as I...

FamilySearch/Research/U.S. Research
March 22, 2020

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. After living through the effects of last week’s announcements about the Coronavirus COVID-19 and the fact that many schools across the United States are now temporarily closed, it seems to me to be a natural extension of the school...

General/The Family History Guide Association/Training
March 16, 2020

Introducing the Sample Outlines

In an earlier article, Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines, we described the concept of using a sample course outline to prepare family history courses. The Sample  Outline can be modified to suit your needs as you teach family history topics right from The Family History Guide website. We have recently added several Sample Outlines to The Family...

Training/What is new at The FHG
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