"After I saw the kinds of info available on your website, I got so excited and realized this info was the reason I came to RootsTech this year! Thank you!"
"This has made my day, made my year. This is what I came for - this has made this all worthwhile!"
"You have created a miracle and made so many lives much easier. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"There have been two things that have made me feel like 'This is why I came to RootsTech,' and The Family History Guide is the most important one!"
"Your presentation was worth the price of admission to the last 6 years of RootsTech! I am overwhelmed and spiritually fed. The Family History Guide will change the family history community. 'Thank you' doesn't begin to express my appreciation. You have been sent to help gather the ancestors of the world."
"Our thanks extends to the ever amazing staff of thefhguide.com. We enjoyed learning even more about your great non-profit org. We hope more people will support your fine work by doing a Facebook donate for their birthdays or using smile.amazon.com! So easy. Also thanks for creating the family history companion to Come, Follow Me. We turned at least 5 people towards that extended study avenue while we were working your booth. Very exciting! Keep up the good work ... we truly love thefhguide.com."
"I am a missionary for Utah SLC Headquarters Mission. This is a great, great program! The people I help will benefit from this; all the beginners and even the intermediate guests."
"This program is a true godsend! I have been seeking help to do my Family History Consultant job for 3 1/2 years. Finally you have filled that need! I'm so excited to go home and teach myself and share your program. Thank you for ALL the work to put together something so complete and simple!"
"I use The Family History Guide all the time to get info for myself and the patrons I help. Thank you!"
"The Family History Guide is a great place to start and to help others get going!"
"Amazing! Everything I need on one site. This will be so easy to navigate!"
"Wow! What a delight to see how simple and fun The Family History Guide can be."
"Mark, one of your booth workers, was amazingly helpful! He helped me find information on my Mexican family. Your website is an incredible resource. I'm so excited for training and learning on your site!"
"My wife's grandfather, born in Essingen, Germany in 1877, emigrated to the US when 13 years old. Using The Family History Guide we were able to access in minutes the details of his travel by ship from Germany to Ellis Island, with a stopover in England. Thanks to The Family History Guide for creating a wonderful tool to include in our search for our ancestors."
"Thank you for providing this wonderful set of guides for educating people about family history. I will definitely be taking some classes to assist with my learning more about genealogy and family history."
"Wow, this is the first that I have heard of this resource. It's a good thing that it was recommended that I attend RootsTech."
"The information in this class was so informative. It will be so helpful in working on my own family tree as well as helping other individuals. There is such a vast amount of information compiled into this site. I am so excited about finding this information and attending this class. I cannot wait to get home and put it to use. Thank you for the time, resources and effort in making this available."
"Very encouraging. I hadn't believed I could have discovered a "guide" to involvement in genealogy. This class was wonderfully helpful!"
"This is just what I am looking for!!! Can't tell you how badly I needed this!!!"
"As a beginner this has been the most beneficial class so far. Totally impressed with The Family History Guide."
"This is the place to go to learn how to use FamilySearch Family Tree. Wonderful tips and helpful information. I appreciate all of the work and all you and your colleagues are offering on this site. I teach a lot of people about family history and this has been a wonderfully accepted resource by each and every one. It brings simplicity and organization to concepts that are somewhat complicated."
"I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate having The Family History Guide as a resource for training our new missionaries. It is turning out to be such an incalculable benefit. Prior to The Family History Guide, it was a constant battle to try to keep our orientation training materials up-to-date. Now, much of that challenge has disappeared thanks to you and your magnificent team. Again, thank you, thank you!"
"At our family history center Staff Training this week we used the Website Demo to do an overview of The Family History Guide. We then asked each staff member to go through the projects using the trackers. The response was very favorable. We appreciate all your hard work. We feel this is what we need for our staff to understand FamilySearch."
"... The best learning template for genealogy, period."
"I appreciate the Project lessons: they are thorough, concise, and very worthwhile."
"I just discovered your website this week, and I am VERY excited to learn and use all of its features. Thank you for answering my prayers for a helpful resource like you have created."
"We at the Utah Salt Lake City mission are still loving The Family History Guide. We encourage our missionaries to use it when they return to their homes after their missions. The Family History Guide is always received with gratitude and joy, and maybe a bit of relief just knowing it will always be available for them as a resource. That goes for me, too."
"You folks are truly responsive. I love The Family History Guide and share it all the time in my FamilySearch Family Tree classes. Keep up the great work."
"I am convinced everyone should go through The Family History Guide to help improve things on Family Tree FamilySearch. Your training would help so much in reducing duplicates and changes without sources, etc."
"My husband is a "newbie" to Family History. When he came out of the RootsTech 2016 class on The Family History Guide, he was raving about how wonderful it was. I knew then that it had to be shared. I've been looking at the presentation materials on the site and will be using them. It really is a great website—thank you for bringing it together."
"I am a beginner in Family History ... yes, intimidated with all the technicalities of how it all works. I've gone through several videos on the Introduction page of The Family History Guide, and it looks like your site might be just what I need. Thank you."
I'm actually crying - it's so wonderful. How generous of you to have put this together!
"Thank you for this WONDERFUL site. I've been wanting to learn to do family history for decades, but it all seemed too overwhelming until I saw your site."
"I am so excited to have found out about your website. What a great idea! I can't wait to get on and get familiar with it. I am fairly new to family history research and FamilySearch, and this will be an invaluable guide for me. THANK YOU!"
"It has become the best, most user-friendly source to learn about how to do family history. I hardly felt comfortable with computers (for 40 years) and have tried a few times but ended because of frustration with trying to figure out how to do things, but now I am learning one step at a time with great, simple modules. I encourage you to get your feet wet and give it a try. You will amaze yourself that there is hope for YOU."
"I can't thank you enough for all your work and expertise. We are using The Family History Guide in our ward on Sundays for members who come into our "lab." We use the games for children when we do Family Home Evenings for members also. Everyone is loving it. I am still exploring and learning, as there is so much in there."
"Thanks for the excellent site, which I have just presented to my ward on the 5th Sunday."
"I'm just starting family history. I didn’t know how to begin. This website will bless my efforts and I’m sending the website to all of my family!"
"This is a resource I was not aware of. I'm going to spread the word."
"When I'm introducing newbies to the joys of genealogy research, I am sending them ALL to you FIRST ... I don't even see a learning curve with your site. It's so well laid out and easy to navigate."
"I'm doing a presentation ... I was going to make a handout then discovered you have thought of EVERYTHING. Thank you! I so much appreciate those that use their talents for good in helping others. The more I use this Family History Guide the more I see how useful it will be. I have already shown several do-it-yourselvers who have come into our FHC for guidance—it will be perfect for those people. And teaching from this site will be very helpful. Thank you!!"
"We have trained the 60+ staff members at our family history center to promote The Family History Guide—we love it! I had the opportunity to teach two Family History Classes a few weeks ago and I taught all about your product. The students were thrilled to know about your great work. THANK YOU!!!
"I got up at 4 a.m. this morning to start exploring The Family History Guide. It is wonderful. We have 11 Consultants in our ward, each with a specialty area. The Family History Guide has training and motivational material for each of us. I love it!!!"
"Our stake is having a Family History Fair in May, and they asked me to do the same presentation that I did last year. I told them, "We have something MUCH BETTER!" I already told everyone about Family History Guide when we returned from the RootsTech convention. I took the stake consultants and others in the family history center that night through the program—they were all excited."
"Thank you for the brochures and the training provided by The Family History Guide. We have been encouraging use of the website for members, non-members and new members, as well as existing consultants. Great feedback from all. We hope to put the brochures in the hands of active and less active members throughout our stake. We are also encouraging the missionaries to give them to investigators and invite them to visit the family history center. Keep up the great work."
"Your site is fantastic, and as a stake RFH consultant here in Canada, I really appreciate the help it offers."
"We have started teaching classes one night a week using the The Family History Guide as the curriculum for each class being taught. This a great resource for helping individuals who want to be more knowledgeable about family history. The first class is about basic navigation of FamilySearch. The class is going well. The Family History Guide is a great tool to use for developing class instruction. May you all have wonderful experiences using The Family History Guide."
"I love this website and hope to increase the love of Family History in my Ward using this website! Thank you so much!! It makes my calling a lot easier."
"The Family History Guide is like Manna for the starving TFHC."
"I am deeply grateful for The Family History Guide. I am using it and teaching it more and more often with people I am working with, helping them become comfortable with Family Search. Great resource. Mostly I get WOW from others as I show them the amazing resources available at the touch of a finger."
"I have really enjoyed teaching others how to use the features on the Family History Guide website.It seems like every time I am on the site I discover something new."
"Thank you for The Family History Guide. As a FHC Director it has been immensely valuable in training our consultants."
"I love The Family History Guide. Today I learned even more things they are doing. If I am ever asked to teach a class on Family History I will absolutely use the Trainers section of The Family History Guide."
"Thank you to all those involved in making The Family History Guide so remarkable! It is the most premier place to go for guidance - it's just so wonderful! My family history students are so excited to dig into the website! Thanks for such a powerful and easy to navigate Guide. It sure does make every angle of Family History efforts easier, more efficient and delightful. My confidence is strong with The Family History Guide as my favorite go-to."
"The Family History Guide will help whoever you are talking to, so they can do a better job with their family history. Thank you for having such a great website."
"I love what you have done with The Family History Guide!! I'm the Ward Temple and Family History Leader and plan to use the FHG to teach FamilySearch classes. I'm also planing to use it to train Family History Consultants. Thanks so much for what you do. It is a blessing to many!!"
"After watching your new Intro video, a long-time worker in the Richfield FamilySearch Center told me The Family History Guide is an "answer to her prayers." The director of the Center wants me to make a presentation to all of the staff ... I like to emphasize ... that we should think of ourselves as librarians rather than the library, and I tell them I like to think of The Family History Guide as my digital card catalog for all things family history."
"This looks like what I have been searching for this past year. I want to become a knowledgeable person who can do and help others with family history. I love your format of goals, choices, etc. THANKS SO MUCH ... I am excited and have hope again."
"This body of work is a great resource, and I tell everyone I talk "Family History" with about it."
"I am in the process of learning and using The Family History guide and it is wonderful. I want to get the brochures to help spread the word."
"Just came across your guide. After listening to the first webinar, I am a fan. I currently serve as a ward family history consultant. I posted a link to your website on our Ward FB page and encouraged members to take a look and enjoy learning at their own pace."
"I LOVE the way it works. My hour-long presentations will be full of "show and tell" with the new areas!!! Thank you. The whole site is SO user friendly and nothing intimidating about it. Thanks again for doing such a WONDERFUL job."
"LOVE the new home page! I can't wait to start cruising through the new Partner training. Thank you for all you are doing for the world of Family History."
"I love your website. It is fantastic for personal study and wonderful for training."
"Every change that's made is a change for the better and the site is SO user friendly. I tell that to everybody I talk to about it."
"Thanks for the personal effort in providing this overview of The Family History Guide. It is a huge new adventure for researching my family history."
"This is an amazing and almost unbelievable guide for Family History. Thank you very much."
"I have been waiting for exactly this kind of website, and am amazed at how incredibly well organized and inclusive it is—especially for such a new release. Thank you!"
"What a brilliant product! I will definitely be a site regular. Thanks for making my responsibility easier!"
"I have been a fan of The Family History Guide since the minute I saw it. It's the long-awaited answer for people trying to teach others! It is terrific for learning yourself as well. Brilliant concept and executed so well. Three cheers for The Family History Guide!"
"I have been doing genealogy for over 40 years, and I have to tell you that this site is a godsend!"
"I've been teaching in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since about 1957, and I even did a bit of research with LDSTech and BYU on technical training methodologies as recently as 3 years ago. I'm completely amazed by the quality and quantity of The Family History Guide. It's the best thing ever produced for Latter-day Saint teaching and training."
"I only discovered The Family Guide last Thursday and was as excited about it as a kid on Christmas morning! It is the exact resource that I have been looking for for a while. I am hoping to start Family History workshops possibly once a month to help others get motivated and started on their own work. The organized goals with steps and the tracker will help so much with this. Thank you!!"
"I have been doing Family History and Genealogy for years, and have taught and assisted many others in doing their own family history. When I learned about The Family History Guide, I was impressed with the easy-to-follow training, activities, tutorials and projects that I found. I can now confidently refer others to The Family History Guide to get the help they need, as they pursue their own family history. It is very easy to access, easy to follow and offers assistance no matter what level of experience you have - all in one setting!"
"After struggling for years to help people in a Family Search Library I was overjoyed to find The Family History Guide. It helps people make sense out of all the family history information out here in one magnificent learning system. Step by step with "just in time learning" they begin to feel confident enough to work independently. This is what every learner and trainer wants to see from their students' efforts. The Family History Guide is simply a miracle for so many all over the world. Try it, you'll love it!"
"Wow! This is a learning tool that will point you where you want to go when you want to go there."
"This Guide is such a wonderful, fun and powerful resource pointing to every angle a genealogist might need or want as they journey toward success! We are called to serve and inspire 7 Stakes in this area, so we will be one of your biggest cheerleaders."
"Love your site! Thanks for the many helps and resources. We are planning a Stake Family Discovery Day, where the FH consultants in our stake are teaching various topics—kind of like a mini RootsTech. Your website has been extremely helpful in helping us learn what we need to teach, as well as how to teach it."
"I can tell you that your format will especially appeal to the youth and others who have previously wanted to participate but needed a step-by-step, visual method."
"We have been directing our people, staff, consultants, and patrons to your site. Everyone is so excited about it, and we have already seen improvement in our staff members' abilities to help patrons. Thank you so much for the great work!"
"The Family History Guide is a wonderful tool. I do my best to spread the word about how useful it is."
"As a ward family history consultant, I am thrilled to be introduced to The Family History Guide! This looks like the perfect training site for new FH consultants and other ward members. Thank you for providing what I think is going to be an awesome resource!"
"This is an awesome site. The best I have seen for family history research. Wow!"
"This website is mind-boggling and simple at the same time!"
"Thank you for your website. I use it to train our Family History Consultants. The Tracking Sheet was invaluable in gauging who knew what, to design our training sessions."
"This is THE Guide for learning or teaching about FamilySearch Family Tree, Ancestry, Find My Past, and My Heritage."
"We can't tell you how useful this information is. It is obviously hours and hours if not months and years worth of hard work and love. Thanks for all your efforts to help us all become lovers of family history."
"Really enjoy the site and have been sharing it with friends. Thank you for the fabulous content!"
"It seems very self-explanatory and a great resource. I appreciate you reaching out. I definitely have it on my radar now. It's already been added to my favorites."
"You definitely made searching family history easier, more efficient and more enjoyable. The amount of information you combined and covered is amazing. Our whole group was impressed by the systematic organization of the guide. We look forward to utilizing The Family History Guide to enhance our research. We appreciate all the work that went into the Family History Guide and that it is free for all visitors. In this way genealogy keeps moving forward."
"Thank you for giving us a taste of the many, many resources available in The Family History Guide. Among other things, I'll be using the section on how to prepare programs on various subjects, since I sometimes find that I have to fill in for a cancelled program at the last minute!
"I am so happy about this website and all that it offers to both new and seasoned family historians and genealogists. I feel this site encourages self-starters to know how to help themselves learn at their own pace in an organized and enlightening way. I think it has great application just as it is and the fact that the team will continue to add and improve it over time is -thrilling. I think this is a fabulous tool for teachers and trainers. In the past few days I have talked with several people who help others learn how to accomplish this work. Without exception they have all been very excited about it."
"Great product and service, nothing compares, well done. This is going to help many people start and back into family history and genealogy again. I am referring every Family History Consultant and Indexer in our stake to this site, with no concerns about it!"
"As a genealogist and family history consultant, I find this site to be extremely useful and user friendly. I recommend it to anyone interesting is their own genealogy or family history."
"This is the by far the best one-stop shopping and information site for any part of FamilySearch or the partner sites. My goodness, you can learn to use Mac or PC or Android or iPhone, or look at the monthly updates ... this is phenomenal!"
"My favorite part of telling people about The Family History Guide is how surprised and excited they get as they learn more. They usually start off with reservations, waiting for another typical sales pitch, but once they see what the website has to offer and the purpose of the organization, their eyes light up and they can’t wait to use it! No matter the level of their family history experience, The Family History Guide is for everyone."
"I just wanted to say hello and thanks for this comprehensive guide. I have only scratched the surface but can't wait to share it with my patrons when library programs resume."
"I can't believe that I didn't know about this great resource! I will absolutely be using it from now on."
"Now THIS is a super cool site ... especially as it addresses many platforms. This site is a WINNER."
"Your site is a real blessing for us in helping newbies get started. It is a wonderful resource."
"I had no idea The Family History Guide did so much. I have been doing research for 25 years and was surprised at how much I did not know. What a wonderful program."
"This site is an amazing tool for beginners through advanced researchers. I'm so impressed with what has been created, including research sites for other countries!"
"I saw this website at the BYU Family History Conference. I went home that night and started using it right away. I also used it more the next morning and got so involved I almost forgot to come back to the conference!"
"I am totally addicted to The Family History Guide—wish I had it a long time ago!"
"My daughter and I just wanted to reach out and say thank you. She is in Girl Scouts and is working to earn her "My Family Story" badge. Her troop leader told the girls to do some genealogy research at home bring what they learned so far to the troop, and that's how she found The Family History Guide. It was so helpful to her—it really had her completely consumed all weekend."
"One of our library patrons enjoyed your webinar sponsored by the library, and then had an absolute blast exploring the website. She told me she only meant to be exploring for about an hour after lunch and ended up realizing, 'Hey, it's getting dark!' It was almost 6:00 p.m., and she had lost complete track of the time!"
"Thanks for a big new "rabbit-hole" to go down...!!"
"To me this site is a game changer. It helps people catch the vision of what they can do and it empowers them in the step-by-step approach."
"Amazing—thank you for a project whose time has come. This has the potential of revolutionizing how we do research with FamilySearch."
"The Family History Guide is WONDERFUL! Thank you for putting together and constantly updating this wonderful source. Your guide is superior to any instructions out there."
"CONGRATULATIONS! What you have done is sooooo important. I have used the Guide in many ways. I even found another child of my great-great-grandfather that I did not know existed. Again, many thanks!"
"Thank you! The Family History Guide is already making a difference in my calling and my personal family history work."
"I finally dove in to Projects recently, starting with FamilySearch. Due to a commitment to not skip anything, I paid attention to learning about Find-a-Record, which led me to "Possible Duplicate Persons". The payoff: I unexpectedly discovered the elusive date for when a great-grandfather was sealed to his first wife in the Endowment House in 1869. Turns out the names were recorded or transcribed incorrectly, but this time the search made the needed connection. Finding documentation for that known-to-have-happened event has eluded me for about 15 years! Serendipity? Thank you, TheFHguide and Find-a-Record."
"Every once in a while, a program or a website comes along that makes a significant contribution to the genealogical community. These advances can take the form of opening access to additional records or searching, organizing or presenting those records in a new way. The new website, The Family History Guide, is a professional level, sequenced learning program dedicated to learning about genealogical research in general and specifically about the FamilySearch.org website and Family Tree program. The Family History Guide is free and fully functional. Content is being added regularly. Each of the goals is supported by valuable resources about that particular aspect of the Family Tree program. I certainly suggest that you take some time and explore and learn from this new valuable resource."
"I think it's the best invention since the wheel, as far as family history is concerned."
"I look forward to seeing what resources your amazing website can provide. Your efforts to compile a compressive and instructive guide are miraculous. Thanks a zillion!"
"This is just what we need for training consultants and patrons at our family history center. It's a bit isolated here, but we have a great sense of community."
"I want you to know how happy I am that you have posted this site NOW. It is comprehensive, easy to understand and will be a huge asset for our training and classes. I will also be adding it to the Address bar on the center's computers!"
"One of the most valuable assets of this program is being able to give the library patron or consultant something tangible and effective to take away and to continue working and learning on their own. It makes sharing so much better. Now we can concentrate on teaching a person how to fish, not just giving them a meal. There is a lot more to all of this than just clicking when someone shows you where to click. This gives students an opportunity to catch the vision of what they don't know and a concrete path to follow."
"Your site is an answer to prayer, as many of us Family History consultants have had no standardized curriculum from which to teach."
"This is the best site we have ever seen for learning about the consultancy aspect of family history. Thank you so much. There has never really been a training program for consultants or anyone working in family history like your site. I can take someone who has never even had any computer experience and take them from that level all the way to consultant with confidence. You even thought of the proficiency section so that their self-esteem would be raised by every level of progression. You should be very proud of yourself for what you put together. It's very well thought out."
"I want to say how much I LOVE this guide! I’m a Family History Director and am using it currently to train our 10 consultants. Just wonderful to have a step-by-step teaching process so those who have a hard time remembering what they learn can refer back to this so easily. THANK YOU!!"
"Just what I need as a ward Family History Consultant. Excellent presentation."
"It looks like a very good thing for myself as a FHC Director or anyone who teaches a class on Family History Research ... or anyone who does family history research. I see myself as using it very much and often. Thanks for this added resource."
"Months after being called to be a consultant in the family history center and attending other trainings provided there, I learned about The Family History Guide. I went through it last year and I was so glad that I did because it really helped me know how to navigate FamilySearch and understand better what to do, and you can refer to it for things you've forgotten. It's a wonderful tool. I absolutely love it and highly recommend it for anyone wanting to do family history."
"As a family history consultant, I refer people to The Family History Guide all the time. It has been particularly useful to some of my older patrons who struggle with remembering. They can go back and review over and over again. One of them calls me to report on the modules she has completed. The Family History Guide is empowering!"
"I just wanted to say I am extremely impressed with your site and look forward to using it in my callings as a ward consultant and as an Assistant Director for our Family History Center. Thank you for all of your efforts!!!"
"This calling is new for me, and your training came at the PERFECT time. I feel like everyone who attended (beginner and advanced) was able to leave with something they didn’t know before. And when everyone gasped when you pulled up the Family History Guide website ... that was priceless!!! I asked people as they were leaving, and they all said how wonderful the training meeting was."
"As I was preparing to train a brand new Temple and Family History Consultant, I went on the BYU YouTube Channel and was astonished at how amazing The Family History Guide presentation on U.S. Research is - so comprehensive. I got lost in it and forgot that I was there for the new Consultant! It is just beyond amazing the depth of information that has been put into The Family History Guide. I for one am in awe of it and have been since day one! Congratulations! With James Tanner on the Board of Directors, this is a total win/win for the entire community of family historians and genealogists! Thank you so much!"
"Thank you for your wonderful website! My husband and I are Stake Temple and Family History Consultants, and we have found the information from your website to be very helpful in training and helping others and in fulfilling our callings. My husband's focus is on research, and my focus is indexing."
"I agree that it is fun to see the 'light bulb' go on in people's voices and eyes when I explain The Family History Guide. Family history and temple work are things President Nelson wants us and everyone to use to minister to others. Anyone can help minister to anyone with this tool. We were helping someone who felt stuck on a line to a foreign country and they became excited and felt hope when we took her to the page of the country. My daughter, who is a mid-singles Relief Society president, became excited when she saw all the activities and ideas for singles. I saw a bishop happy that the youth could do this in 15 minutes a day. I saw family history center directors and consultants have lightbulb experience when they had something that could help others to help themselves. I saw the light bulb go on when a student was able to find information she needed—and need fast—on her own. Training helps us to help others more with The Family History Guide."
"Amazing program—I will use this website in every training I do!"
"Incredible resource for teaching and spreading the word about getting more people involved in family history."
"Great new resource to help me learn online at home."
"A great product that makes training systematic, simple, and orderly—and which should be adopted by FamilySearch."
"I had never seen or used this site; now I'm excited to show it to my ward!"
"Most valuable class!!"
"The absolute most important class there—TERRIFIC."
"Very accurate, logical, nice flow, perfect rate of information exchange."
"Wonderful addition to guiding us through the maze."
"Simply amazzzzing. This is lovely! I am excited to share this in my ward/stake."