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December 9, 2019

The Family History Guide At RootsTech London – Part Four

The RootsTech, London, exhibit hall opened to an enormous crowd of excited family history enthusiasts this morning – the last day of the conference. This was the busiest of the three days with an additional 4,902 attendees coming to learn, meet new friends and relatives, and enjoy the free “Family Discovery Day” to the fullest. Miraculously, our stack of pass-along cards...

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December 2, 2019

The Family History Guide At RootsTech London – Part Three

Friday the exhibit hall opened at 9:45 a.m. and was busy from the first minute of this exciting day! The first general session featured Paralympian Kadeena Cox and FamilySearch International CEO Steve Rockwood. The evening special event was “Connecting Through Music” with the talented group Tre Amici at 6 p.m. in the auditorium. Since we worked our booth straight through...

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November 25, 2019

The Family History Guide at RootsTech London – Part Two

 What a privilege to bring The Family History Guide to this historic event!  The Exhibition Hall opened at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, and was busy from the onset with attendees from various places all over the world stopping by our booth to find out what we are all about. Some were experienced genealogists and most were beginners or those with a...

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November 18, 2019

The Family History Guide at RootsTech London – Part One

From the day the announcement was made that RootsTech London would be happening, The Family History Guide team considered being part of it. However, we had pretty much given up hope that anyone on our management team would be able to make the trip, until one day when I said to my husband, Scott, “Let’s go!”  The more we discussed...

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December 29, 2018

A Miracle in Denmark

According to Dennis B. Neuenschwander: “Families collect furniture, books, porcelain, and other valuable things, then pass them on to their posterity. Such beautiful keepsakes remind us of loved ones now gone and turn our minds to loved ones unborn. They form a bridge between family past and family future. Every family has other, more valuable, keepsakes. These include genealogies, family...

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December 28, 2018

It’s a New Year – Let’s Start This Week to Record Our Personal Histories!

It is nearly 2019 and I would guess that for most of us, it is a hard fact to comprehend. We contemplate the past year, and although so much happened, it is the pace at which it transpired that makes us worry about the new year approaching and then suddenly being a memory. Finding a way to record the events of our lives...

Family History Activities/Memories/Records
December 10, 2018

The Family History Guide Will Team Up with FamilySearch at RootsTech 2019!

We are excited to announce that The Family History Guide and FamilySearch are collaborating for a presentation at RootsTech 2019! Scott and I will join Mike Sandberg at 8 am on Saturday, March 2nd to share ideas, tools (some hot off the press!), and inspiration to help families discover their ancestors, gather their stories and information, and make connections. Mike (Senior Product...

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November 27, 2018

The Family History Guide Fundraiser Continues

Dear Friends of The Family History Guide, We are continuing our fundraiser for the next few weeks!  FaceBook and PayPal made a generous offer to match donations made to nonprofit charity organizations like The Family History Guide, last Tuesday, November 27th on #Giving Tuesday! Thank you for all the generous contributions, for thinking of us, and for being loyal users. Thank you for spreading...

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November 12, 2018

Need a Time Filler? Think Family History!

Parents and grandparents who get to spend a lot of time with children know that there are often spaces between scheduled events that need time-fillers. For those of us who like to encourage our posterity to know and love their ancestors, these random “waiting moments” are perfect for a bit of family history fun! Check out these ideas from The...

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October 26, 2018

Using Pinterest for Family History

Pinterest is a social media network that allows you to share and discover new interests by posting or “pinning” images and videos to your own “board,” which is a collection of pins with a theme or subject. Think of it as a type of search engine like Google, Bing, or Yahoo but with its own twist. Pinterest has an estimated 200...

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