Training Brochure, Web Version
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About
The Family History Guide: It's free. It's fantastic. And it's for you.
www.thefhguide.com
The breakthrough training site for consultants, trainers, and leaders
The Family History Guide can help you:
- Use The Family History Guide website as your teaching platform; easy prep.
- Explore a Course Catalog with hundreds of offerings, from hour-long to 20 min. per class.
- Get tips on training individuals, families, groups, and consultants.
- Become a Certified Trainer, as a presenter or mentor.
- Track individual learner progress, on paper or with our powerful Online Tracker.
- Take advantage of Instructor Tips provided on the website.
Build a top-quality family history training program, with no slide decks to prepare!
From the top menu, select Trainers.
Here's a sample of what you'll find on the site:
Presentations
- "40 Things to See and Show". This is a handy reference for presenting The Family History Guide website, including speaker tips for presentations.
- "40 Things to See and Show, for Attendees". Same as the other version, w/o the speaker tips.
- "15 Training Items to See in The Family History Guide". Use this when getting trainers familiar with The Family History Guide website.
- Presentation Slides – designed for a high-level overview to decision-makers.
- Quick Tour video – shows highlights of the website in about 6 minutes.
Certified Trainers
Qualify to join our group of Certified Trainers for The Family History Guide – presenter or mentor.
Course Catalog
The Course Catalog is an assortment of classes that can be offered from the website, from 15 to 60 minutes in length. For example:
- Beginning Family History
- FamilySearch Family Tree Navigation
- Web Indexing
- Ancestry Hints and Sources
- Getting Organized for Research
- United States Vital Records
Families, Groups, Individuals
- Get tips for training families, groups, and individuals, including youth, beginners, and children.
- Learn keys to effective setup, delivery, and follow-up for training.
Consultants
- Get tips for training family history consultants.
- Learn keys to effective setup, delivery, and follow-up for training.
- Learn how to integrate the Consultant Planner with The Family History Guide.
- Facebook Group: Trainers/Consultants/Directors
Training Tools
- Get tips for instructor preparation.
- Learn keys for effective classroom teaching and coaching learners.
- Review Instructor Tips for creating a great learning environment.