Country Research – Page 11 – The Family History Guide Blog

April 5, 2020

Introducing Goals for Geography, Culture, and History

Geography, culture, and history are three important but often overlooked aspects of family history. Together, they can provide a wonderful sense of context for your ancestors’ lives. Geography puts the physical framework around the places and events; culture clarifies the traditions that drive behaviors and choices; and history helps us see how external events push and pull the timelines of...

Country Research/Learning/What is new at The FHG

March 29, 2020

The World at Your Fingertips

From Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide Association: What to do … what to do … what to do? If you are self-quarantined and have kids and youth to entertain, The Family History Guide can help. Did you know that you can go on a world tour, right from your own home or apartment? Kids can visit...

Country Research/Families/Family History Activities/Learning

February 23, 2020

New on YouTube: Explorations Series

Country Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

January 26, 2020

New: Updates to Country Pages

In The Family History Guide there are links to about 70 country pages for research. These include some “collector pages” such as Central America, East Europe, Pacific Islands, and South America. There are also links to resources for hundreds of smaller countries around the globe. In preparation for RootsTech 2020 (Feb. 26-29), we have updated quite a few of the...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG

January 5, 2020

New Show Me Videos and Country Page Updates

On our YouTube Channel there are quite a few Show Me videos for FamilySearch Goals. We now have two new Ancestry Show Me videos on the channel, with more Ancestry videos to come: Ancestry Project 1, Goal 1: Account and Tree Setup Ancestry Project 1, Goal 3: Customize Your Homepage Country Page Updates We are making enhancements and additions...

Ancestry/Country Research/YouTube

December 30, 2019

Research Basics: Part One

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was originally published in the Rejoice and Be Exceeding Glad blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Research Basics: Part One It is time to get back to research basics. I suspect that the only formal training, if any, that most people have regarding research is some sort of “research project”...

Case Studies/Country Research/U.S. Research

December 1, 2019

22 Million Completely Searchable Books and Records on the Internet Archive

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner originally appeared on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. 22 Million Completely Searchable Books and Records on the Internet Archive One of the least known valuable genealogical resources is the Internet Archive or Archive.org. This website is rapidly becoming the largest, free, downloadable, completely accessible collection of books...

Country Research/Research/Technology

November 24, 2019

What’s New: Countries Menu and Pages

It has been a busy week for Country pages in The Family History Guide! We hope you enjoy the updates and share them with your friends. Here’s a summary of what’s new and improved … Countries Menu The notable change here is the addition of sub-menus. When you click any of the Regions—North America, British Isles, Scandinavia, Central Europe, Western...

Country Research/Navigation/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG

October 20, 2019

What’s New with QUIKLinks

QUIKLinks are one of the most popular and useful features of The Family History Guide. You can learn more about QUIKLinks and how to use them in the Features Help page. We’ve recently made a few improvements to how QUIKLinks are presented on the site, as well as adding quite a few more QUIKLinks. Here’s a brief summary: Discontinuing the...

Country Research/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG

October 13, 2019

Expanded Commentary on the Rules of Genealogy: Rule Nine

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner was originally published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Expanded Commentary on the Rules of Genealogy: Rule Nine I have slowly been going back to the list of the Rules of Genealogy and writing about each individual rule. There are presently 12 Rules. Here is the current...

Country Research/Learning/Research/U.S. Research

Category: Country Research