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April 25, 2022

The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks

The BYU Family History Library recently posted a new YouTube video titled The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks. This video gives you an inside look at some useful features and tips for using them, such as shared and hybrid topics, hidden gems, resource stars, info buttons, and a lot more. The video has had about 500 views in its...

Learning/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
November 8, 2021

Milestone: 500 Tips of the Day

As I remember, it was shortly after one of our Management Team meetings for The Family History Guide Association about two years ago. Kim Powell, our financial strategist, remarked to me that it would be a great idea to have a genealogy tip of the day on our website. He was spot on with that observation. This past week we...

What is new at The FHG
January 17, 2021

5 Things You Might Not Know About the Family Tree Recents List

Note: This article by Kathryn Grant was published previously on the Hearts Linked Together blog site and is used with the author’s permission.   Recents is one of the options on the Family Tree menu. Although it’s right there in plain sight, it might be one of the least-used features in Family Tree. But it’s also one of the most helpful....

FamilySearch
May 31, 2020

The Family History Guide on Facebook

As you probably know, The Family History Guide has two associated Facebook pages: Our public page, at https://www.facebook.com/TheFamilyHistoryGuide A private Group for trainers and consultants, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefhguidetraining/   If you are interested in joining the Group, please request membership. For the past few weeks, we have been adding helpful family history tips to these pages, with a wide variety of topics...

Facebook/Research/Social Media/What is new at The FHG
February 8, 2020

10 Tips You May Have Missed in The Family History Guide

If you’ve been around The Family History Guide for a while you’ve probably used the Country pages, the Projects, the Activities, etc. But there are some other useful features on the website you may not have seen. Here’s a list of 10 tips for using some cool features in The Family History Guide (not in order of importance), along with...

Learning/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...

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