May 17, 2025 On Vacation The regular blog articles for The Family History Guide will be back on May 26. See you then! Uncategorized Comments: 0
March 9, 2025 A Look Back at RootsTech 2025 … RootsTech 2025 concluded on Saturday, and from the perspective of The Family History Guide it was a great experience. In a previous blog post we outlined the webinar and speaker sessions by members and partners of The Family History Guide Management Team. Those sessions went well and were well-attended. For example, Miles Meyer’s webinar on U.S. census records had over... RootsTech/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
March 2, 2025 RootsTech 2025 Presenters from The Family History Guide Assn. This year at RootsTech we are pleased to announce a variety of webinars, classes, and online videos that will be presented by members of the Management Team of The Family History Guide Association. Here’s a list of what to look for, either in person at the Salt Palace or online (listed in Mountain Time, March 5-8): We hope you enjoy... RootsTech/Training/What is new at The FHG
March 2, 2025 Update: New Class Outlines Over the last few months we have added the following new Class Outlines for trainers and instructors: There are now 240 Class Outlines in The Family History Guide. You can access them here or from individual Goals in Country pages and Learning Path pages. More Class Outlines are on the way! Training/What is new at The FHG
February 23, 2025 The Family History Guide Booth at RootsTech As you probably know, The Family History Guide Association will have a large booth space in the RootsTech Expo Hall in Salt Lake City in just over two weeks. Here’s a brief recap of what we will be offering at the booth for RootsTech 2025: Here’s a quick rendering of how the booth is shaping up, with the Viewpoint Corner... RootsTech/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG
February 23, 2025 The Family History Guide for Gen Societies, Clubs, & SIGs We recently added a new entry to the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide: Societies, Clubs, SIGs. This page explains how genealogical societies as well as genealogy clubs and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) can benefit from using The Family History Guide. It also has links to key features on the website that support recruitment and member activities for the... Training/What is new at The FHG
February 15, 2025 Update: Viewpoint broadcast for The Family History Guide The schedule for The Family History Guide’s appearance on the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid is finally being set. The 30-second commercial piece of the broadcast package will air nationwide on the Fox Business News channel in April. The commercial with then air in various U.S. regions on several PBS affiliate channels, and the “Demo” (three-minute segment featuring The Family History... What is new at The FHG/YouTube
February 15, 2025 Three more keynote speakers for RootsTech Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech RootsTech.org announces three additional keynote speakers from around the world. Quoting from the announcement: Ysabelle Cuevas Philippines born singer and songwriter Ysabelle Cuevas got her start releasing covers of popular songs on YouTube. Since 2016, her work has amassed over 700 Million streams, with her biggest release... RootsTech
February 9, 2025 BYU Family History Library Video: Training with The Family History Guide Imagine a whole library of family history training tools within your reach, and they are all free of charge! The new video Training with The Family History Guide is now available on the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel, and it has about 800 views so far, in less than two weeks. The video covers these training tools: The video... Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
February 9, 2025 FAQs for Class Outlines The Class Outlines in The Family History Guide are a powerful way to develop family history training, quickly and effectively. The were introduced about 18 months ago and have grown to over 230 in the collection so far. Recently we added an FAQs link in the Class Outlines page that answers questions that trainers might have about developing and using... Training/What is new at The FHG
