February 3, 2020

The Home Page Gets a New Look

It has been a while coming, and now it’s here: the Home page has a streamlined and simplified look. We think the message of The Family History Guide comes through loud and clear, with the Mission Statement more visible in the middle, and featured in the bottom  section. Here’s a look at the top part of the new page: Menus...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
February 3, 2020

RootsTech 2020 Mini-Class Schedule, The Family History Guide

RootsTech 2020 is just a few short weeks away—it’s hard to believe the time has gone by so quickly! We’ll be offering Mini-Classes at The Family History Guide Association booth (#933) in the Exhibition Hall. The mini-classes are are a great opportunity to relax a bit from the fast pace and the crowds, and stop by for some great learning...

RootsTech
February 3, 2020

“For Beginners” and the Learning System

The Family History Guide had some recent and significant additions: a newly updated “For Beginners” page, and the new Learning System page. Let’s take a look at each, and how they can help. For Beginners The previous Beginners page had an assortment of links, sorted by category, aimed at beginners in family history. The new “For Beginners” page focuses on...

FS Partners/Learning/What is new at The FHG
January 26, 2020

New: Updates to Country Pages

In The Family History Guide there are links to about 70 country pages for research. These include some “collector pages” such as Central America, East Europe, Pacific Islands, and South America. There are also links to resources for hundreds of smaller countries around the globe. In preparation for RootsTech 2020 (Feb. 26-29), we have updated quite a few of the...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG
January 26, 2020

Inspiring Family History

The mission statement for The Family History Guide is on the Home page, just below the main picture: “Our mission is to greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone’s family history journey easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable.” Part of that mission involves inspiring others to get started with their family...

Family/Family History Activities
January 26, 2020

The Technological Impact on the Future of Genealogy

The Technological Impact on the Future of Genealogy Editor’s Note: This article was previously published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site by James Tanner and is used with the author’s permission.   The huge Archive.org website presently has digitized 22,794,565 books. FamilySearch.org presently has about 453,000 digitized genealogy books. The HathiTrust.org has 17,217,620 digital books on its website. The National Library of Australia’s Trove.nla.gove.au website has 20,266,228 digitized...

FS Partners/Technology
January 19, 2020

Presenting The Family History Guide at Societies and Libraries

A “ground-floor” opportunity is usually defined as a chance to enter an organization or effort at an early and influential stage. The Family History Guide has such an opportunity, albeit a volunteer one. (We are volunteers at The Family History Guide Association, so that should come as no surprise, really.) The ground-floor opportunity is this: presenting The Family History Guide...

Training
January 19, 2020

The Family History Guide Training in Nigeria

In the nation of Nigeria, family history work is especially challenging due to the limited availability of records. Most of the  genealogy is traditionally kept in oral histories, with little being written down. Also, computers and internet access are not as widespread as in many countries. But those challenges are not stopping a tireless group of consultants and family history...

Training/What is new at The FHG
January 19, 2020

Don’t Forget the Unindexed Records on the FamilySearch Website

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was published previously in the “Rejoice and Be Exceeding Glad” blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Don’t Forget the Unindexed Records on the FamilySearch website As of November 2019, there were 1.73 billion digital images published only in the FamilySearch.org Catalog. This compares to 1.4 billion images published in the searchable FamilySearch...

FamilySearch/Records/Research
January 12, 2020

The Family History Guide at the East Texas Genealogical Society Fair

The 20th Annual Family History Fair for the East Texas Genealogical Society—”Discovering Your Roots and Branches”—will be held on Saturday, April 11. The Fair will be at the University of Texas Soules College of Business in Tyler, TX (about 90 minutes southeast of Dallas). It’s free and open to the public. I have been invited to present on The Family...

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