Here’s a brief review of some of the latest updates to The Family History Guide website. Some of them have been mentioned in previous blog posts, so the links to those articles are also included.

Get Started

We’ve changed the focus of the Get Started page. It was previously a group of alternatives to choose from; now it’s driven by questions and answers. There are over 300 links for basic questions about family history that lead to answers in The Family History Guide. The questions are organized in 13 categories for easy access.

See this blog article for more info: https://www.thefhguide.com/blog/a-new-way-to-get-started/

More Countries

We’ve added “More Countries” Goals (collector pages) for Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Pacific Islands, and South America. These pages contain Choices for countries that do not have enough information to support a full page of their own. The collector pages can be access in the Countries menu.

The More Countries section of the Countries page has also changed. Instead of containing links to resources for all the additional countries, it now simply provides links to the country collector pages that have the resource links. Also, separate country pages were added for the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and Northern Ireland, all of which can be accessed in the British Isles section of the Countries menu.

See this blog article for more info: https://www.thefhguide.com/blog/more-countries-more-to-discover/

QUIKLinks

Now there are even more QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast records. Here are the QUIKLink stats to date for The Family History Guide:

• FamilySearch – 2,539
• Ancestry – 1286
• MyHeritage – 148
• Findmypast – 688

Total QUIKLinks: 4661

Note: QUIKLinks are provided only for collections with over 50,000 records each. Also, when a collection is shared among FamilySearch and the other Partners above, it is listed as a FamilySearch collection.

More Video Links

Recently we’ve added links to webinars and videos from the following sources:

• BYU Family History Library
• Ancestry.com
• Ancestry Academy