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
December 2, 2018

Learning More About Family Search Partner Websites

In 2016 FamilySearch announced the addition of partnering with other big genealogy database companies that have millions of records, subscribers, and great technology. These partnerships became a win/win for FamilySearch, Ancestry, Findmypast and My Heritage. The last three are all commercial websites that are competing with one another.  When FamilySearch, a free website, proposed sharing records for indexing records and...

FS Partners/General/Learning/Technology/Uncategorized
December 1, 2018

The Family History Guide: Essentials for Everyone

One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of The Family History Guide is that it offers something useful and important to just about everyone. We’ve done a bit of thinking on this topic and come up with a list of 10 family history “audiences” and what might appeal to them in The Family History Guide. Some of us, of...

Ancestry/Country Research/FamilySearch/General/Navigation/Records/Technology/Training/U.S. Research
November 27, 2018

The Family History Guide Fundraiser Continues

Dear Friends of The Family History Guide, We are continuing our fundraiser for the next few weeks!  FaceBook and PayPal made a generous offer to match donations made to nonprofit charity organizations like The Family History Guide, last Tuesday, November 27th on #Giving Tuesday! Thank you for all the generous contributions, for thinking of us, and for being loyal users. Thank you for spreading...

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