Category: Church Of Jesus Christ

New: Presenting The Family History Guide to Wards and Stakes

Currently, many individuals around the globe are presenting The Family History Guide as a way to help Latter-day Saints in their involvement with family history work. To assist in these efforts, we have created a slide deck that can be used, along with the website, to describe how the website works and how it can be used by Church members...

Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide

Recently we published a new video on our YouTube Channel: Latter-day Saint Resources in The Family History Guide. As you probably know, we have a Faiths menu on the website, with resources for the Church of Jesus Christ as well as Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish research. But there are other locations in The Family History Guide where you can find...

The Healing Power of Family History Work

Note: This article was published previously on the Granite Family History Center blog site. Several years ago, before we got our Family History Center, I was asked to head up a family history class on a ward level. I tried to interest the members to attend. I had little success. As I tried to recruit members, I approached a sister...

Update: Ward and Stake Activities for Youth

Last week we introduced a new page in The Family History Guide called Activities Sheets, in the Faiths menu. These activities are designed for Latter-day Saint youth. We have recently made some changes and enhancements that you will want to note: The Activities Sheet page has been renamed to Ward and Stake Activities. It’s now located as a separate tile...

Youth Activities Sheets for Latter-day Saints

We’ve added a new page, at the bottom of the Youth menu in The Family History Guide: it’s titled Activities Sheets. On this page you’ll find activities sheets you can use for planning and carrying out family history activities for Latter-day Saint youth, from scavenger hunts to a family history boot camp, and more. The sheets have links to downloadable...

New: Come, Follow Me Companion for 2022

We are excited to begin another year of family history lessons in the Come, Follow Me Companion for family history. This year the topic of study is the Old Testament. Previous years include New Testament (2019), Book of Mormon (2020), and Doctrine and Covenants (2021). Check out the Come, Follow Me Companion for the Old Testament. Now when you go...

Introducing the Youth Pages for Latter-day Saints

We are excited to announce a new series of web pages for Latter-day Saint youth on The Family History Guide. These pages offer fun and engaging ways to involve youth in temple and family history work. You can access the pages in the Youth menu (final link) or in the Faiths menu, in the Church of Jesus Christ section. Below...

New Resource Page for Latter-day Saint Leaders

If you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use The Family History Guide, you are probably familiar with the Faiths menu, which has a wide variety of family history resources for Latter-day Saints (and pages for Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish research as well). We recently added a new Leadership item to the menu....

Discover, Gather, and Connect Your Family

At RootsTech 2019, Scott and Angelle Anderson shared the stage with Merrill White of FamilySearch to deliver a powerful presentation. They demonstrated how engaging in meaningful family history activities can connect families together in love. Scott, our Public Relations Director, and Angelle, our Marketing Director, highlighted activities from The Family History Guide, while Merrill introduced the new In-Home Activities on...

Rootstech 2019 ~ Lots of Learners, Teachers & Consultants Sought Help

As various stats were collected after RootsTech 2019, it became apparent that The Family History Guide had some very successful experiences there.  We had three wonderful presentations. Two were given by Bob Taylor, CEO of the Family History Guide, entitled “The “Family History Guide: Accelerating Your Learning and Research”.  The two classes attracted 1350 attendees.  It is estimated that a significant number of them...