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
January 15, 2018

Getting More from QUIKLinks

You’re probably familiar with QUIKLinks in The Family History Guide – those handy shortcuts that take you directly to search screens in FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FindmyPast, so you don’t have to spend extra navigation time finding them. (And if you’re not familiar with QUIKLinks, the Features Help page has a “quik” description of how to find them.) After you...

Navigation/Records
January 12, 2018

Make Family History with Home Videos – How to Create, Save and Share

In a blog post entitled Creating Traditions That Make Family Memories Cora Foley writes that “Traditions are a set of customs or rituals passed down from one generation to the next. They help shape a family’s legacy, while also instilling family values in its newest members, whether they be a baby or a spouse. Family traditions can also help solidify the bond between...

Family History Activities/Technology
January 8, 2018

The Family History Guide – TIY

“DIY” – as anyone into home renovation knows – means “Do It Yourself”. There are plenty of tales of DIY success and failure, and it has given birth to a multi-billion industry and even a number of reality TV shows. So what is “TIY”? That’s the little-known cousin of DIY … “Teach It Yourself”. We at The Family History Guide...

Learning/Training
January 2, 2018

Ideas and Help for Using Social Media – “The New Language of Family History”

Social media has been referred to as “the new language of family history,” and The Family History Guide is here to help anyone learn to speak it! In addition to suggestions found in Social Media Activities for Youth, Families, and Individuals, more tools for learning and using social media for family history are listed in Project 7, Goal 3 (FamilySearch) or Project 6 Goal 3 for Ancestry,...

Family History Activities/Social Media/Technology
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