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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...

The Family History Guide Association

November 19, 2018

The Gratitude that Comes from Family History

Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It is one of the most cherished celebrations of the blessings we receive from God. Many people make a concerted effort to be together with loved ones on this day. The airports and highways are jammed with Thanksgiving travelers every year. In the United States Thanksgiving Day usually includes a traditional feast...

Family History Activities/General/Technology

November 18, 2018

Facebook and The Family History Guide

These days, Facebook has become a go-to choice for collaborating on family history. The Family History Guide is an active player in the Facebook world, sharing the joys of family history. Here are some of the ways we are involved with Facebook: Main Page Our main Facebook page is approaching 2,000 likes and follows, from many locations around the world....

Social Media

November 18, 2018

New: Subheadings in Choices

You probably know The Family History Guide routine pretty well by now: Projects are divided into Goals, which are divided into Choices, which contain steps (and article and video links). That covers the bases pretty well, except for one item: sometimes there may be more than one topic in a Choice. This tends to be the case with some of...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG