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March 14, 2021

Using the Activities Planning Sheet

There is a new feature in the Activities menu of The Family History Guide—it’s the Activities Planning Sheet. This is a Google sheet that you can transfer to your device to help you plan and track family history activities. You can make a copy of the sheet and save it to your Google Drive, or you can download it as...

Family History Activities/Uncategorized/What is new at The FHG
March 7, 2021

Family History for Youth – Upcoming Class

Angelle Anderson will present a free class for the Sandy Granite family history center on how to get youth involved in family history and loving it! Here’s the information for the upcoming class: Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9 Time: 7 p.m. Mountain Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87373988340?pwd=bjMxcVB5Y3pJSzExTCtFbGxJcWt1UT09 If you are unable to attend, you can view a recording of the class on the Sandy...

Family History Activities/Training
February 28, 2021

Partnership Videos: FamilySearch and The Family History Guide

RootsTech this year was a video extravaganza, with hundreds of videos to choose from on a wide variety of family history topics. There were keynote addresses, class sessions, panel discussions, an Expo Hall, and more. The Family History Guide Association was privileged to work with FamilySearch in producing two special videos that were featured in the Beginner’s learning track at...

Family History Activities/Research/RootsTech/What is new at The FHG
August 16, 2020

Virtual Family History Escape Rooms

Note: This article by Miles Meyer was originally published in the Miles’ Genealogy Tips blog site and is used with the author’s permission. Hello everyone. We have been preparing for Hurricane Isaias this weekend and now it is a tropical storm. So what do you do when you are waiting on a storm that doesn’t come? You catch up on...

Family History Activities/Research/U.S. Research
July 19, 2020

The Family History Scavenger Hunt

Miles Meyer, the Education Director for The Family History Guide Association, recently completed a fun and informative “scavenger hunt” series. It’s published on his blog site, Miles’ Genealogy Tips, and contains a series of articles designed to get you thinking and searching like a family history detective. The series covered the month of June, 2020. Although the event has concluded...

Family History Activities/Research
July 13, 2020

How to Include the Family in Family History

When it comes to spending time with family, engaging in family history ideally should be inclusive and involving everyone, right? The question, though, is how to do just that. After all, it can be quite difficult to get the whole family to gather around a laptop and have them help you index or search for records. Besides, someone might say...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch
June 21, 2020

MyHeritage’s New Photo Enhancement Feature

Once again, MyHeritage has recently announced a new feature that continues to make photographs come to life. This new feature allows people to take their old photographs of their ancestors and enhance them. Essentially, the feature ‘cleans’ the photo from static and aging in a way that makes the pictures look like they came out brand new. Combined with their...

Family History Activities/MyHeritage/Technology/Uncategorized
June 14, 2020

Indexing in Other Languages: An Ever-Growing Need

A few days ago, my wife decided to do some indexing via FamilySearch while I was messaging my grandmother. As we were talking, I mentioned that my wife was indexing, and my grandmother made the following comment in response: “We’re running out of indexing projects for English.” This comment stuck out to me, knowing what I know about my grandmother....

Family History Activities/FamilySearch
June 7, 2020

Freedom on the Move: How Runaway Ads Contribute to African-American Family History

With the events going on at this time, many people are looking back in history to reflect on the difficult journey to freedom for minorities in the United States, particularly the black population. Anyone who has taken a U. S. History course should be aware of the horrific institution of slavery and its overall impact on not just U.S. society,...

Family History Activities/Research
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
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