We occasionally are asked if there is a printed version of The Family History Guide. The standard reply is no, for two reasons: 1) It would be thousands of pages long, and 2) The content changes often enough that keeping it up-to-date would be tremendously time-consuming.

However, printing some pages here or there can be very useful. The challenge is that there is quite a bit of visual content on the pages that you may not want to print, such as pictures of embedded videos, footers, etc.

New: Selective Printing Feature

We have recently introduced a new print button into the header area of each page (except the Home page). This free feature is made possible by the PrintFriendly.com site. Here’s an example of what it looks like:

When you click the button, you can choose what you want to print and what to leave out. Let’s walk through an example with screen shots:

1. Click the Print button for FamilySearch Project 1, Goal 1. The following screen appears:

The first thing you might notice is the very large logo. In the top menu bar, you can click the 100% window next to the graphic icon and select 25%, for example. Then it looks like this (omitting the top menu):

2. Hover over an item you don’t want to print—text or graphics—and the trash can icon appears, with the selected text highlighted in yellow. Click it to hide that item from printing. Note: This just removes the item from your printed page, not from your view of The Family History Guide.

3. To restore an item you hid, click the Undo button in the top menu. If you want to start over and try again, click the X (upper right) and try the Print button again.

4. To scale the printing to any size from 130% to 70%, click the text percentage indicator in the top menu.

5. When you are ready to print, click the printer icon to print to paper, or the PDF icon to create a PDF file. In the print dialogs you can further control the printing, such as selected pages, paper size, etc.

We hope you enjoy the new Selective Print feature in The Family History Guide!