Volunteer Instructor Program (VIP)

The Volunteer Instructor program enables you to succeed in doing training with The Family History Guide in a variety of organizations, such as church groups, genealogical societies, libraries, FamilySearch centers, etc.

Volunteer Instructors have experience in family history training, online, in-person, or both.

To learn more about Volunteer Instructors, visit the links below.

Self-Paced Quiz for Volunteer Instructors

The questions on this page are designed to help you use The Family History Guide effectively as a training tool with others. Read each question below and think of the best answer for it. To see the answer, click the link.

The quiz has 50 questions. If you need to look up the answers in The Family History Guide at first, that's fine. Strive for a perfect score on the quiz, without lookups.

Click a question to reveal its answer.

FAQs

1. In which menu is the FAQs page?
2. Who sponsors The Family History Guide?
3. Why is there no app for The Family History Guide?
4. How is The Family History Guide funded?
5. What kinds of genealogical records does The Family History Guide Association own?

Navigation and Basic Features

1. On a smartphone, where do the menus appear?
2. How do you return directly to the Home page, from any page on the website?
3. How do you get The Family History Guide translated into another language?
4. Is there a printed version of The Family History Guide?
5. How do you find something quickly in the website?

The Learning System (Intro Menu)

1. What are the large "boxes" of information called in the Family History Guide, and where are they found?
2. What are the medium-sized "boxes" in a Project, and where are they found?
3. What are the small boxes of information, and where are they found?
4. How do you display Choice titles without the text between them?
5. What are the two skill levels measured in the Exercises?

Project Types

1. Where do you find information for uploading photos and documents?
2. Where do you find DNA testing information?
3. Where is the information for the FamilySearch Apps for phones and tablets?
4. Where is the information for setting up accounts in Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast?
5. How do you get additional help for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast?

Research Tools

1. What country does the research Knowledgebase focus on?
2. What is Goldie May?
3. Which Goal is designed to help you with difficult research challenges?
4. Where do you find information on getting organized for research?
5. What is the purpose of the Databases page (below Knowledgebase in the menu)?

Media

1. How do you subscribe to The Family History Guide blog?
2. What social media platforms have pages for The Family History Guide?
3. Where is the Overview video found for The Family History Guide?
4. Where do you find brochures and flyers for THe Family History Guide?
5. Where can you order pass-along cards in The Family History Guide?

Countries

1. What happens when you click the British Isles item in the Countries menu?
2. Where can you find an alphabetical list of major countries (ones with the most records) in The Family History Guide?
3. Where can you find an alphabetical list of minor countries (ones with fewer records) in The Family History Guide?
4. How do you find pages for ethnic research?
5. What are QUIKLinks, and where do you find them?

U.S. Research

1. In which Goal section of the United States page would you find passenger records?
2. In which Goal section of the United States page would you find birth, adoption, and marriage records?
3. In the main United States page, how do you get to the individual U.S. state pages?
4. In a state page, how do you find information for counties?
5. How many links are in the state list?

Misc.

1. What is the purpose of the Vault?
2. How can you move quickly back and forth between the Vault and the correpsonding page in the main part of the site?
3. What is the only part of The Family History Guide that requires a username and password?
4. In the Online Tracker, how do you know whether you should move a slider bar to Good or Proficient?
5. There are star icons before most article and video links in The Family History Guide. What is their purpose, and how do you use them?
6. How can you see all the stars you have darkened, in one place?
7. How do you let The Family History Guide Association know about a question or problem with the site?
8. Where can instructors find resources for teaching with The Family History Guide?
9. In The Family History Guide, where can people learn basic skills for learning computers?
10. Where is the section for beginners in The Family History Guide?