It has been a busy week for Country pages in The Family History Guide! We hope you enjoy the updates and share them with your friends. Here’s a summary of what’s new and improved …

Countries Menu  

The notable change here is the addition of sub-menus. When you click any of the Regions—North America, British Isles, Scandinavia, Central Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific, or South America—or Ethnic, you’ll see a list of countries or ethnic groups to choose from. This lets you make a selection right away, instead of having to navigate on additional pages. Note that only one sub-menu can be open at a time; when you click another Region, any previously opened sub-menu is closed. Also, if you move the pointer away from the menu so it closes, the menu will display the open sub-menu the next time you open the menu.

The example at the right shows the sub-menu open for North America. You can click any of the items in the sub-menu to open that Country page.

(Note: On smartphone you will need to open the sub-menu twice. We are working on fixing that issue.)

All Countries

You can still use the All Countries link (top of the menu) instead of the Regions—and we have made improvements there as well. Instead of a long, scrollable list by Region, you’ll see a shorter, alphabetized list of the Country pages at the top, like this:

For smartphones, the list uses a slightly different format to make best use of the screen size.

More Countries

After the list of Country pages, we’ve added a More Countries link. Clicking that link opens a list of “smaller” countries—those that do not have their own Country pages. For each country in the list, the following links are shown:

• Wikipedia (country name)—Country information and background
• BillionGraves (BG)—Locations for cemeteries in the country, as provided by Billion Graves
• FindAGrave (FG)—Locations for cemeteries in the country, as provided by FindAGrave
• FamilySearch Wiki (FS)—Additional links and resources for the country

Here’s a brief example (the full list is quite long):

There are currently over 150 countries in the More Countries list—enjoy!

Updates to Country Pages

We recently completed enhancements and improvements to many of the Country pages, and we are continuing that effort. As we find new and helpful resources, we will add them to the pages. If you have a favorite resource you would like to see included, please drop us a note using the Contact link in The Family History Guide (also found in the Misc. menu).