Starting Your Research with What You Already Know

October 6, 2017

Starting Your Research with What You Already Know

Most of us want to know about our immigrant ancestor, the one who came across a border or crossed an ocean to come to America. Unless you are a first generation immigrant, you have to work with United States (or the country of your birth) records first.

Country Research/Learning/Training

September 20, 2017

Learning about Mobile Devices & Apps

Mobile devices are used quite extensively for genealogy and family history now and it is projected, it will be even more so going forward. If you’d like to know more about doing family history “on the go” check out The Family History Guide, Project 7: Technology, Goal 2: Smart Phones and Tablets. There you will find a great deal of...

Learning/Technology

September 19, 2017

The Family History Guide and “Just in Time Learning”

Being a California girl, I love the redwood trees along our coastline. I love how small they make me feel as we walk next to them. There is something so awesome and reverent about them. I’ve noticed people often whisper in places like Muir Woods, if they talk at all. Sometimes I feel exactly like that when I realize how...

Learning

September 18, 2017

The Family History Guide and Boy Scouts of America

Some of you may have read the title of this post and said, “What does The Family History Guide have to do with BSA?” Well, the answer is a lot actually. The Boy Scouts of America have a Merit Badge for Genealogy. Shortly after we began working at the Family Search Library in 2011, my husband, Jim, was asked to teach Scouts and...

Learning

September 13, 2017

Assessing the Individual’s Needs in Family History

Yesterday I had a very interesting experience working with a patron in the Oakland FamilySearch Library. He had never been on Family Search before and was eager to see what we had for him on Family Tree. He had been on other big sites for a couple of free days in the past and wanted to further his search for his great...

Learning

September 11, 2017

Fostering Independent Learning with The Family History Guide

One of the things I love the most about The Family History Guide is how it allows a person to grow and learn independently. Of course everyone needs help when they are getting started with family history, but how long can a person realistically sit at another person’s elbow as they go forward in their learning? If we don’t foster that independent...

Country Research/Learning

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