September 2025 – The Family History Guide Blog

September 28, 2025

New Guided Learning Videos

The collection of Guided Learning videos continues to increase, with 14 new videos since our last post a few weeks ago. Here are the newest entries, which are also available on the Guided Learning page in the Research Skills menu:

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September 28, 2025

Full-Text Search and FamilySearch Records

At the end of August, FamilySearch released full-text search as a feature on their main website. In a nutshell, full-text search enables you to search for keywords in the actual text of the record, even if the record has not yet been indexed. Previously, unindexed records could be quite difficult to work with due to large amounts of scrolling or...

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September 21, 2025

Updates: Guided Learning and Home Page

Recently we have streamlined the Guided Learning page and made a few changes to simplify the home page for The Family History Guide. Here’s a summary of the updates: Guided Learning Instead of embedded videos on the page, there are now individual video links with descriptions. This means that the Guided Learning page loads more quickly, without the need to...

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September 21, 2025

Exploring the Family Circles Diagram

Recently we learned about a new type of free online family tree diagram, authored by Michael Fagan. This diagram is unlike traditional ancestor and descendant diagrams: it uses a circular approach to show and print your relatives, from living back to deceased ancestors. The website is called Family Circles, at https://faganm.com/diagram. To make a family circle diagram, you supply a GEDCOM...

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September 14, 2025

GoFundMe Fundraiser for The Family History Guide

Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association, a non-profit charitable organization, is organizing a GoFundMe fundraiser for The Family History Guide. Here is the information about The Family History Guide from the GoFundMe website.

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September 14, 2025

Learning about Chrome Flex OS

Chrome Flex OS is a lightweight operating system from Google that can give new life to older computers. It’s oriented towards streaming and internet browsing, and so it doesn’t have a lot of the storage and processing capabilities included with the Windows or Mac OS. However, Chrome Flex OS can be an attractive alternative for users who may not be...

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September 6, 2025

What I Learned from 1418 Consultations for FamilySearch

Note: This article has been updated to reflect that FamilySearch consultations have not been discontinued. During the past five years, I have scheduled 1418 online consultations for FamilySearch.org. These consultations originated from the Salt Lake City FamilySearch Library website. There were dozens of people volunteering to respond to the consultation requests, mostly Church Service Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of...

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