December 19, 2017 Features Help Is Here We recently gave a sneak peek at the new Features Help page, and one day later … it’s here. Find out more below … Learning/Navigation/What is new at The FHG
December 18, 2017 Coming Soon: Features Help Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a handy “cheat-sheet” page for the cool features in The Family History Guide? Well, that page is on its way – it will be finished in a few days. The text is pretty much done, and it’s just waiting for some graphics and a few finishing touches. When finished, the Features Help page... Learning/What is new at The FHG
December 17, 2017 Presenting The Family History Guide to Others: 40 Things to See For trainers, one of the unusual aspects of presenting The Family History Guide website to others is that there is no slide deck involved; you simply show and explain the website. That leads to a few questions: What elements do you show on the website? What sequence do you follow on the site? What are some good talking points for what... Training/What is new at The FHG
December 10, 2017 Open or Close: The Sequel Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves! 🙂 The Open / Close Choices were so popular that we added buttons at the top of each Project page, so you can close all the Choices on the page, or open all of them. The Default is to have them all open at first. Here’s a partial example of the buttons, in the header... Navigation/What is new at The FHG
December 2, 2017 New Category for Posts: LDS Topics If you’re interested in the LDS aspect of family history, you can now find posts about LDS topics on our blog site. These posts do not appear on the main page of the blog; they are in a separate section (similar to how LDS topics are addressed on the LDS page of The Family History Guide, not in the main... General
December 1, 2017 Open or Close: Your Choice As you may have discovered, there is a lot of great information in The Family History Guide. We recently added a new feature that enables you to see less or more information in a Project page – you can now close a Choice to hide the information below it, or open any Choice you have closed. Example Here’s an example... Navigation/What is new at The FHG
November 25, 2017 New Post Category: LDS Topics If you’re interested in the LDS aspect of family history, you can now find posts about LDS topics on our blog site. These posts do not appear on the main page of the blog; they are in a separate section (similar to how LDS topics are addressed on the LDS page of The Family History Guide, not in the main... LDS
November 24, 2017 A Shout Out from Scottsdale – The Family History Guide in Action Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Karen Meyer, who currently serves with her husband Ted as the North America Southwest Temple and Family History Advisors for the Scottsdale Coordinating Council. I just want to do a shout out to thank all of you at The Family History Guide Association for your excellent work in putting together the most... LDS
November 17, 2017 What’s New in the Online Tracker The free Online Tracker for The Family History Guide has been up and running for about 7 months, and it now has over 1,100 registered users. (It’s the only part of The Family History Guide that requires a username and password; the rest of the site does not.) With the Online Tracker, or “OLT” as we sometimes call it, you can... Training/What is new at The FHG
November 16, 2017 Context Switching and Family History: From Foe to Friend I am proud to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time! I’ve done it so often that I’m quite confident in my skills. When the tasks gets more complicated than that, however, I don’t always do so well. Many of us consider ourselves true multi-taskers, but there are some trade-offs there, especially when it comes to... Learning/Training/U.S. Research
