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Introduction

Overview Video


About The Family History Guide

About The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide is a free website that represents a best-in-class learning environment for family history. Its scope is broad, but its focus is narrow enough to help you achieve your goals, step by step. Whether you're brand new to family history or a seasoned researcher—or somewhere in between—The Family History Guide can be your difference maker.

Mission Statement: "Our mission is to greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone's family history journey easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable."

Here are some of the unique features you'll find on the site:

FamilySearch Approval: The FamilySearch article "Learn to Use FamilySearch" points to The Family History Guide in numerous places as a trusted learning resource.

Overview: For an overview article about The Family History Guide, click here.




Frequently Asked Questions

For a list of questions and answers about The Family History Guide, see the FAQ page.





About the Projects

About the Projects

The Projects in The Family History Guide are listed in the top menu (or side menu, if you are using a tablet or phone). There are separate Projects for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast.



Goals, Choices, Instructions, Resources

To help you with learning and doing your family history, each Project has Goals, Choices, Instructions, and Resources. Projects are found in the top menu, such FamilySearch, Project 1: Family Tree.



Project Resources

Project Resources

Many of the Choices and Instructions in The Family History Guide link to documents and videos.

Try it: Launch a video or document by clicking an icon from the list above.

Page numbers in parentheses, such as (p. 3-4), mean the information you need is on those pages. Page numbers without parentheses, such as 8 pgs., mean the document is 8 pages long. (No page number means the document is a web page.) Hold the mouse pointer over the document icon above; it directs you to page 3.

Icon video timings in parentheses, such as (3:00-4:30), mean the information you need is in that part of the video, so you can fast-forward to it. With no parentheses, such as 25:21, the timing refers to the total length of the video.