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
March 15, 2020

We’re Still Standing!

From our COO, Bob Ives: With all the unsettling things going on in today’s world, I find it comforting to be able to think about something other than the current events of the day. Yes, that can be hard if you are wondering what tomorrow may bring or you are sequestered or quarantined. Focusing on something that can be calming...

The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
March 15, 2020

Embedded Videos in The Family History Guide

When you browse through different Projects in The Family History Guide, you’ll see that we now have embedded YouTube videos that you can watch right on the page. (The United States Project has a lot of these, for example.) The embedded videos on the page can also be expanded to full-screen mode. Below is an example of a page with...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
March 9, 2020

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines

I recently posted the following in our Facebook Trainers & Consultants page: “Last week I taught a one-hour class on newspaper research at our local family history center. I was filling in for an instructor who couldn’t make it. I had a few days to prepare, but rather than put together a slide deck I decided to teach the class...

Training/What is new at The FHG
March 9, 2020

More from RootsTech 2020

As mentioned in last week’s blog post, RootsTech 2020 was an unforgettable experience for The Family History Guide Association. Here are a few extra items about our RootsTech experience that you might enjoy: Google Photo Album Our Marketing Director, Angelle Anderson, was busy catching the RootsTech action in photos and videos, Here’s a link to the Google Photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2dTg3jrZUqvtJnsE7...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
March 8, 2020

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Over the past few weeks we’ve added several new Choices and one new Goal in The Family History Guide. Here’s a recap of the key additions to the site, with links provided to the supporting content in The Family History Guide: FamilySearch “Where Am I From?” FS Project 4: Goal 10, Choices A, B, C, and D. The “Where Am...

Research/What is new at The FHG
March 2, 2020

RootsTech Recap from The Family History Guide Association

This was the fifth year for The Family History Guide Association at RootsTech, and by all accounts, RootsTech 2020 was the best so far for us. Here are some brief descriptions of what the experience was like: Demos We gave over 1,000 demos of The Family History Guide at our workstations over the span of the conference, and they were...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
March 1, 2020

Historical Images Tool Finds Unindexed Records in FamilySearch Catalog

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by James Tanner in the Genealogy’s Star blog and is used with the author’s permission. https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/explore-historical-images/ To begin discussing the new Historical Images Tool, I think it is a good idea to know what it does and does not do. To understand what it does do, you need to understand why the tool...

Records/Research
March 1, 2020

How Complete Were the US Federal Censuses?

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by James Tanner in the Genealogy’s Star blog and is used with the author’s permission. https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/wright-hunt.pdf Gaining a historical perspective is difficult. Very few genealogists have an extensive background in history and particularly the history of the places where their ancestors lived and died. For example, let’s suppose that in the year 2020...

Research/U.S. Research
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