RootsTech Mini-Class Schedule at The Family History Guide Booth

If you plan to be at RootsTech 2020 in Salt Lake City (Feb. 26-29), be sure to stop by our booth in the Exhibit Hall (#933) … we would love to say hello and get acquainted. In addition to demos of the website, we will be offering 20-minute Mini-Classes on various aspects of The Family History Guide. The initial class...

New Show Me Videos and Country Page Updates

On our YouTube Channel there are quite a few Show Me videos for FamilySearch Goals. We now have two new Ancestry Show Me videos on the channel, with more Ancestry videos to come: Ancestry Project 1, Goal 1: Account and Tree Setup Ancestry Project 1, Goal 3: Customize Your Homepage   Country Page Updates We are making enhancements and additions...

The Top 20 for 2019

It’s that time of year—specifically, the end of the year—to take a look back at The Family History Guide’s year in review. Here are 20 accomplishments, ranked from 20 to 1 (yes, in a somewhat arbitrary scale): 20 – Help pages for Online Tracker Groups & Reporting In the Online Tracker, help pages were added for the Groups feature (creating...

Research Basics: Part One

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was originally published in the Rejoice and Be Exceeding Glad blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Research Basics: Part One It is time to get back to research basics. I suspect that the only formal training, if any, that most people have regarding research is some sort of “research project”...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide Association

It is truly a most wonderful time of the year!  To our Christian friends, we wish you a joyous Christmas, remembering the transcendent gift of a Savior born to us in a simple manger in Bethlehem. To our Jewish friends, we wish you a happy Hanukkah week—may your menorahs shine brightly in the Festival of Lights! We thank you for...

Announcing the New Come, Follow Me Companion for 2020

The new year is almost upon us, and Latter-day Saints are looking forward to the new Come, Follow Me curriculum in 2020, focusing on the Book of Mormon. We have been hard at work creating the first few family history companion lessons, and we are excited to announce that they will be ready shortly after January 1, 2020. The web...

The Family History Guide Association: Bronze Sponsorship at RootsTech 2020

The Family History Guide Association is proud to announce that we will be a Bronze-Level Sponsor for RootsTech 2020! This will be year #5 for us at RootsTech, and we are excited to make this year’s RootsTech our best ever. We’ll keep you up to date on happenings in later blog posts, including our mini-class and presentation schedules. About the...

More Display Pages

The Display Pages are proving to be a popular and effective way to introduce people to The Family History Guide. Recently we have added new items to our Display Pages collections and content. Here’s a summary, to get you caught up on the latest:  New Project Pages collection. This collection includes a page for each of the Projects for FamilySearch, Ancestry,...

Don’t Forget to “Smile”

It’s nearing the end of the holiday shopping season, and what better time to make sure you are wearing an “Amazon Smile”! And what better feeling than to know that you’re supporting a great charitable organization in The Family History Guide Association. a) If you have not yet chosen a charity organization for your Amazon shopping, visit smile.amazon.com to designate The...

The Family History Guide At RootsTech London – Part Four

The RootsTech, London, exhibit hall opened to an enormous crowd of excited family history enthusiasts this morning – the last day of the conference. This was the busiest of the three days with an additional 4,902 attendees coming to learn, meet new friends and relatives, and enjoy the free “Family Discovery Day” to the fullest. Miraculously, our stack of pass-along cards...