If you’re ever wondering what’s new in The Family History Guide website, there are two easy ways to find out:

1. Follow our Facebook page to get regular updates (we’re currently at update #155).
2. Check out the What’s New page (in the Misc. menu).

We especially appreciate the efforts of Laird Jenkins and Ann Tanner in recently reviewing website content for FamilySearch Projects.

In Progress

Here are a few of the items we’re currently working on. Some of these currently appear on the website, and the remainder will be finished up this coming week.

• Revised titles for individual web pages. Google Chrome displays title information when you hover over each open tab in the browser. We’re enhancing the page titles to give more complete information.
• Updated county links for USGenWeb. These are for counties in all 50 U.S. states, plus interactive, clickable county maps.

Coming Soon

And now, a “preview of coming attractions” …

• Features videos. These are short YouTube videos that explain helpful features in The Family History Guide.
• Explorations videos. These are also short YouTube videos that introduce areas of interest in The Family History Guide.
• Additional Quizzes for Projects and Goals. These are for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast.

For the record, October 2019 was one of our busiest months ever with The Family History Guide. Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to, for November (so far) and October …

2019—November

• Made minor updates to most of the MyHeritage Projects.
• Added a number of links to topics in the Genealogy Explained website.
• Added Resource Stars for all items in the Activities pages (Family, Individuals, Youth, Kids Corner).

2019—October

• Added links to RootsWeb U.S. research pages.
• Added links to about 25 videos for Genealogy TV on YouTube.
• Added links to genealogy societies, from the FGS website.
• Updated several Goals in FamilySearch Projects 2, 3, and 4.
• Made additional updates to Project 8: DNA, from Goal 5 to Goal 8.
• Changed the Vault format to lists with clickable stars.
• Added Come, Follow Me Companion cards (DIY printing and ordering) to the Media page.
• Made updates to Project 2: Memories, Goal 1.
• Added links to FamilySearch Community pages for getting additional help with topics.
• Added Vault links for a number of Choices.
• Added links for recent FamilySearch blog articles.
• Added links for Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish videos in the Language resources page.
• Updated the Trainers menu and Trainers Home page to make them more compact.
• Updated the Trainers > Consultants page and the accompanying slide deck.
• Added new QUIKLink for records from FamilySearch, Ancestry, and MyHeritage.
• Updated United States Goal F1: Other Records and added Choice C in F3 for prison records.
• Moved QUIKLinks in country lists to regular QUIKLinks in Choices.
• Added dates of last update to links in the Word Tracker page.
• New Resource Stars project: star icons before each article and video link let you track which ones you’ve finished.
• Added printable pass-along cards in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
• Added a new page for translated pass-along cards: https://www.thefhguide.com/passalong-lang.html
• Updated article and video links in Project 8: DNA.
• Added a number of article links from the Ancestry/RootsWeb Wiki for U.S. state pages.
• Added entries to the Topics page on the website.