February 4, 2019

RootsTech Presentations from The Family History Guide

It’s hard to believe that RootsTech 2019 is less than three weeks away! The Family History Guide will be busier than ever, with a presentation session on Thursday, Feb. 28 and two sessions on Saturday, Mar. 2 (Discovery Day at Roots Tech). Here’s a brief look at the sessions, from the information featured on the RootsTech Schedule page: The Family...

Family History Activities/RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG
February 4, 2019

What’s New: Updates to the Topics Page and the Vault

The Family History Guide has something for everyone, whatever the skill level or past experience. For those wanting to see at a glance what’s in The Family History Guide, the Topics page can be especially useful. The topics are arranged alphabetically, with corresponding links. The Topics page is in the Intro menu, towards the bottom of the list. For those...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
January 28, 2019

What Is The Family History Guide?

Editor’s Note: The following article by James Tanner was originally published on his blog site “Rejoice and Be Exceeding Glad” on January 23, 2019 and is used with his permission. thefhguide.com This past week, I presented at a very well organized and well-attended genealogy conference or seminar in Yuma, Arizona. Besides having fabulous winter weather, Yuma is a small, mainly...

General/Learning/What is new at The FHG
January 28, 2019

What Do I Do with This?

Editor’s note: This article was previously published on the Sandy Granite family history blog site by Liz Kennington and is used with her permission. Many years ago when my siblings and I were cleaning out my parents’ home, I was entrusted with all things genealogy. At the time I was thrilled about having those items in my possession. Almost 17 years...

Memories
January 27, 2019

The Value of Church Records in Family History

One of the most rewarding things about doing family history research is the things you can actually discover from all kinds of records.  The facts recorded in birth, marriage, and death records on one family can really paint a picture of what life was like for those who have gone before.  Some call it “putting the flesh on the bones” when we can acquire information that goes beyond names,...

Country Research/FS Partners/General/Learning/Records/Training
January 20, 2019

Sneak Peek: Online Tracker, Reporting Groups

One of the most popular and powerful features of The Family History Guide website is the Online Tracker. There are currently thousands of people worldwide who are using the Online Tracker to monitor their family history learning and progress. In case you’re not familiar with it, here’s a recap of its main features: Secure login and password management Adding personal...

Learning/Online Tracker
January 20, 2019

New: Come Follow Me Family History Companion Slides

The Come Follow Me Family History Companion has become quite popular in the brief time it has been up on our web site (see our earlier blog post on the Companion for details). It fills a need for including family history activities that are correlated with the Come Follow Me home-centered study from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Training
January 20, 2019

Talking about Blog Posts …

You may have noticed something new in our blog articles… all 230+ of them! There’s a play/pause button in the upper-left corner of each article that enables you to hear the content via text-to-speech translation. Listening to the blog articles can be a benefit for the visually impaired, or for anyone who enjoys a podcast-style experience. The technology comes courtesy of...

Technology/What is new at The FHG
January 14, 2019

The Family History Guide To The Rescue

One of the reasons I am so excited about The Family History Guide is that I remember the day in 2010 when I began working at a Family Search Library. Although I had been doing my own family history since the early 80s, I had no idea what was available electronically or in the stacks of books, periodicals, films, and microfiche in the library. I had no...

General/Learning/Training/Uncategorized
January 14, 2019

30 Things to See

Sometimes trimming down is a good idea. (No, this is not about New Year’s resolutions.) Here, we are talking about a document that was originally titled “50 Things to See and Show in The Family History Guide”. A while back it was reduced from 50 to 40 things, and this past week it was reduced even further to “30 Things...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG
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