Here are a few of the updates we’ve included recently in The Family History Guide and some additional details for each:

Surname eBooks

As described in  an earlier blog post, we’ve added over 900 links to online books on our Surname eBooks page. As a follow-up, we have included instructions at the top of that page for how to access many more free surname books in the FamilySearch Catalog. The public-access books can be easily downloaded and printed so you can search for interesting family biographies and pedigrees.

JAWS Goal

“JAWS” stands for Job Access With Speech. It’s a screen reader that helps blind or visually impaired users access FamilySearch Family Tree. We have added Goal 7 to FamilySearch Project 6: Help that explains how to access and use JAWS for navigating and updating Family Tree. The Choices are A) Create a JAWS account and sign in to FamilySearch; B) Perform tree update tasks and research; and C) Learn more about JAWS.

More FamilySearch Help Center Links

FamilySearch has updated many of its Help Center articles, and we are adding links to a number of them, in Choices where the topics are discussed. This also involves creating Resources sections where additional articles are provided for reference.

New MyHeritage Show Me Videos

Over the past few weeks we have added the following Show Me videos for MyHeritage, Project 2:

• Goal 2, View Tree Information
• Goal 3, Edit Person Information
• Goal 4, Add People to Your Tree
• Goal 5, View People Lists and Relationships