February 12, 2018

The Family History Fun Basket – It’s Ready when You Are!

Circle up the family for a fun, easy to create family history game that will have you all laughing, learning, and making memories at a moment’s notice! It might be a small, last minute family get-together, or a planned evening with loads of cousins ready to party – whatever the occasion, you will have it covered! You will not only have...

Family History Activities
February 5, 2018

Home Page Updates

To keep things consistent and easy to follow, we don’t re-arrange items on the Home Page of The Family History Guide very often. In the last few days, we’ve added a few touches that we feel will enhance the user experience a bit, while not dramatically changing it. In this case, we have updated the “banner” area – the section...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
February 4, 2018

The “Search” is On

We recently enhanced the Search feature that’s on each page in The Family History Guide. (“Search” helps you quickly find topics and keywords on The Family History Guide website.)  Here’s a brief summary of the improvements. When you search, there will be no more ads at the top of results window. Our non-profit status as The Family History Guide Association...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG
January 31, 2018

Looking Up, Down Under

We are pleased to announce the addition this week of research pages on The Family History Guide for the Australian States. You can find the links on the Australia country page, below the main photo: Here are the individual links to the Australian State pages: New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Each of these pages features...

Country Research/Navigation/Records/What is new at The FHG
January 29, 2018

Welcoming Our New Content Specialists

It takes a lot of work to keep the website content for The Family History Guide fresh, appealing, and relevant. We have added a group of Content Specialist volunteers to help us bring you the best in family history learning, just where you need it. Our new Content Specialists are: Laurie Beardall, Industry Partners Ada Nelson, Latin America Jim Millecam,...

Country Research/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
January 29, 2018

Making Family History Come Alive – Give the Free Kinmapper App a Try

Google “where did my ancestors live” and there will be about 3,920,000 results (in 0.51 seconds no less!) with suggestions from where to find records to how to interpret plot maps. Can we say that this amount of information can be a tad overwhelming? The Family History Guide lists a link on the Youth Activities Page to a lesson plan produced by the National...

Country Research/Family History Activities/Memories
January 26, 2018

The Family History Guide, Coco, and Your Online Ofrenda

I love a happy ending in the movies I watch, and the Pixar Movie Coco met that qualification with shining colors! Not only is the storyline both magical and intense (with a few surprising twists in the plot) – it is a FAMILY HISTORY movie and in my book, those are some of the best!  Coco is one of those movies that...

Family History Activities/Memories
January 24, 2018

Check Out Our RootsTech 2018 Page

We’ve added a RootsTech 2018 page to our website, to keep everyone in the loop on what we will be up to at the Conference. You can access it here: http://www.thefhguide.com/rt-2018.html  It’s also in the Blog / Social menu on our site: We’ll keep the page updated as we approach RootsTech. Let us know what you think!

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
January 22, 2018

QUIKLinks – Just in Time

One of the popular design features of The Family History Guide is what we call “just-in-time learning.” With just-in-time learning, the articles and videos you need are placed right where you need them as you study about a topic. So the next logical step? We’re combining QUIKLinks with just-in-time learning. In addition to the lists of QUIKLinks at the top...

Country Research/Learning/Navigation/Records
January 18, 2018

The Family History Guide’s Quicklist for Creating Family History Memories

There are times we just need an idea for creating a “Family History Memory” for those we love. It could be that the family has gathered, and there is that perfect moment to involve them in family history. It could be that you have a family reunion coming up, or you are planning a holiday celebration or road trip and...

Family History Activities/Memories/The Family History Guide Association
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