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October 22, 2017

Announcing Openings for Content Specialists

The Family History Guide is a game-changer in how family history and learning are done worldwide. As it continues to grow and improve, The Family History Guide Association is announcing several openings for volunteer Content Specialists. As a Content Specialist for The Family History Guide website, you will Find family history online resources that would make good additions to the...

General/What is new at The FHG
October 16, 2017

The Updated Course Catalog

Now that the Partner pages have been included in The Family History Guide, we felt it was time to update the Course Catalog to include classes for the Partner pages. While we were at it, we decided to freshen up the rest of the catalog page as well. Below is a brief rundown of the changes that were recently made...

Training/What is new at The FHG
October 13, 2017

Case Studies: Learning from the Best

One of the unique features of The Family History Guide is that it brings some of the best tools for family history research into one easy-to-use location. Learning from the best is something that people have done for ages: if you want to become a great painter or musician, you study their works to help you develop your own style....

Case Studies/Country Research/Learning
October 3, 2017

Exploring The Family History Guide Course Catalog

In a previous blog (Family History Training: A Different Approach), I explained how The Family History Guide takes the heavy lifting out of course preparation by providing a central place to find training content. In this blog, I’ll review how the Course Catalog for The Family History Guide helps you find ready-made topics and materials to teach.

Training
October 1, 2017

RootsTech 2018 Innovation Showcase – Game On!

In case you haven’t heard, RootsTech 2018 is changing the landscape for their popular Innovators program. This time, instead of a contest for cash prizes, it will be a Showcase to spotlight the best and brightest technology companies in family history. You can read more about it here. So the first order of business is voting for the favorite, and this...

RootsTech
September 26, 2017

Announcing Our New Director of Training

Please join me in welcoming Melanie Bosselman as the new Director of Training for The Family History Guide Association. Melanie has been with the Association for over six months in a project management role, and we are excited to enlist her talents to help our global training efforts expand and improve. Melanie is currently also the Training Coordinator for the...

Training
September 23, 2017

Family History Training: A Different Approach

Do either of these questions seem familiar? “I need to teach a class on <xyz family history topic> for the first time. Should I borrow Tom’s slide deck and change it around, or should I make my own? I only have a few days to prepare, and there are handouts to print, files to proofread and upload …” “I like...

General/Learning/Training
September 16, 2017

Exploring the World with The Family History Guide

Finding international resources for your family history research is quick, easy, and powerful with The Family History Guide. Instead of spending time navigating through a maze of menus, you can get to your destination in a matter of seconds, using the Countries page. Let’s take a look at what it has to offer … Getting There You can access Countries from...

Country Research/Learning
September 15, 2017

From Newsletter to Blog

Greetings to all our newsletter subscribers with The Family History Guide, and welcome to our Blog site. We have decided to transition from newsletter to blog, which means that going forward we will be producing blog articles instead of newsletter articles. The newsletter has been dear to our hearts, for over 2 years and 28 issues. The past newsletter issues...

General/What is new at The FHG
September 12, 2017

Goin’ to Kansas City …

I just returned a few days ago from presenting at the GenealogyKC Conference in Kansas City. As many of you know, that’s Royals and Chiefs territory, and the shirts and caps with those logos were on display everywhere. And so was the Missouri hospitality I experienced. GenealogyKC is smaller compared to some conferences, but it more than makes up for...

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