December 23, 2018

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide

What a year it has been, and we have so much to be grateful for. Millions around the world are joining hands to connect all of us through family history, whether by extending family trees, discovering and sharing memories, joining in family history activities, or simply breaking the ice and getting started on the journey of family discovery. The Family...

General/What is new at The FHG
December 23, 2018

Announcing the Study Center

We’re excited to announce a new learning tool in The Family History Guide—the Study Center. It’s a handy way to organize your learning in 2019, a bit at a time. The Study Center combines a step-by-step approach with high-level Goals to point you in the right directions for learning. The opening screen for the Study Center is shown below. There...

Learning/What is new at The FHG
December 23, 2018

Planning Ahead for Discovery Days

The 2018 year is almost to a close, and it has been a great one for The Family History Guide. Looking ahead to 2019, there are plenty of opportunities to spread the good word about The Family History Guide—one of them being Family Discovery Days, the family history fairs that are typically held around the world at family history centers...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/The Family History Guide Association/Training
December 17, 2018

Finding Help with The Family History Guide

You can think of The Family History Guide as one large Help system, with Projects, Goals, Choices, and Steps to assist you along the way. There are also many “just-in-time” learning resources on the website, such as links to videos and articles, and there are navigation tips, Summaries, Exercises, and more—all designed to help you learn family history faster and...

FamilySearch/FS Partners/Learning/Navigation/Training
December 17, 2018

Training Tips from Our Facebook Group

If you’re a member of the Trainers/Consultants/Directors Facebook Group for The Family History Guide, you’re likely familiar with the weekly “Training Tips” feature. At the time of this writing, there are 18 tip articles so far on the Facebook page. We’ve decided to make these available on the main website as well, with one difference: new Training Tips articles will...

Training
December 16, 2018

The Benefits of Discovery in Traveling to Your Ancestors’ Homelands

If you haven’t ever traveled to do genealogy and your family history I would highly recommend it.  My husband and I have traveled quite a bit in the last 10 years. We have had a yearning deep within us to go and see the places where our ancestors lived.  We have had marvelous experiences both in and out of The United States. The trips...

Case Studies/Country Research/Family History Activities/Family History Travel
December 10, 2018

The Family History Guide Will Team Up with FamilySearch at RootsTech 2019!

We are excited to announce that The Family History Guide and FamilySearch are collaborating for a presentation at RootsTech 2019! Scott and I will join Mike Sandberg at 8 am on Saturday, March 2nd to share ideas, tools (some hot off the press!), and inspiration to help families discover their ancestors, gather their stories and information, and make connections. Mike (Senior Product...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch/RootsTech
December 10, 2018

Handling Dead Ends in Your Trees, Part Two

Editor’s Note: Thanks to our guest blogger, Karen Meyer, currently serving as an Area Temple and Family History Consultant in the Scottsdale (AZ) Coordinating Council, for this blog post. In Part Two,  she outlines other common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them. You can read the Part One article here. Problem #5: Is it possible...

Case Studies/U.S. Research
December 10, 2018

Update: Streaming and Recording at the Sandy Granite FHC

The Sandy Granite family history center is now the third-busiest family history center in the Salt Lake area, following the main Family History Library downtown and the Riverton Family History Library. In an earlier blog post, Setting Up for Success, we described how the arrangement of computers and seating leads to an optimized learning environment. An interesting development has been...

Learning/Training
December 3, 2018

Resolving Dead Ends in Trees, Part One

Editor’s Note: Thanks to our guest blogger, Karen Meyer, currently serving as an Area Temple and Family History Consultant in the Scottsdale (AZ) Coordinating Council, for this blog post. In Part One,  she outlines some common causes for dead ends in family trees and how to address them.   Problem #1: Too many Census Data Sheets for the same year. One...

Ancestry/Records/U.S. Research
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