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March 18, 2019

Sources, Hints, and Record Searches

We recently made some important updates to a few of the Goals in The Family History Guide. They have to do with record sources, hints and searches in FamilySearch Family Tree. Here is a summary of the changes that were made: Project 1: FamilySearch, Goal 8—Adding Sources Choice B: “Browse and sort existing sources in your family tree.” This updates...

FamilySearch/Navigation/Records/What is new at The FHG
March 10, 2019

Attending Rootstech 2019 Was Unforgettable

I am still feeling the exhilaration of Rootstech, after my return home on Tuesday.  The atmosphere is just electrifying there in Salt Lake City’s Salt Palace. It is a pure joy to be among people who have a desire to do their family history. In doing so, we can gather tangible evidence of our ancestors and preserve and treasure it. Often it...

FamilySearch/Learning/RootsTech/Training
February 17, 2019

Cleaning Up with Tree Sweeper

In a previous post, we said farewell to Find-A-Record, a popular program for updating and maintaining your data in FamilySearch Family Tree. It was featured in Project 1: Family Tree in The Family History Guide. Now there is a worthy successor to Find-A-Record: it’s Tree Sweeper, from the BYU Family History Technology Lab. In a nutshell, Tree Sweeper examines your...

FamilySearch/Technology/What is new at The FHG
December 17, 2018

Finding Help with The Family History Guide

You can think of The Family History Guide as one large Help system, with Projects, Goals, Choices, and Steps to assist you along the way. There are also many “just-in-time” learning resources on the website, such as links to videos and articles, and there are navigation tips, Summaries, Exercises, and more—all designed to help you learn family history faster and...

FamilySearch/FS Partners/Learning/Navigation/Training
December 10, 2018

The Family History Guide Will Team Up with FamilySearch at RootsTech 2019!

We are excited to announce that The Family History Guide and FamilySearch are collaborating for a presentation at RootsTech 2019! Scott and I will join Mike Sandberg at 8 am on Saturday, March 2nd to share ideas, tools (some hot off the press!), and inspiration to help families discover their ancestors, gather their stories and information, and make connections. Mike (Senior Product...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch/RootsTech
December 1, 2018

The Family History Guide: Essentials for Everyone

One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of The Family History Guide is that it offers something useful and important to just about everyone. We’ve done a bit of thinking on this topic and come up with a list of 10 family history “audiences” and what might appeal to them in The Family History Guide. Some of us, of...

Ancestry/Country Research/FamilySearch/General/Navigation/Records/Technology/Training/U.S. Research
November 3, 2018

When Seeking Turns To Building in Family History

Not long ago I had a very interesting experience working with a patron in the Oakland California Family Search Library. He had never been on FamilySearch 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...

FamilySearch
October 28, 2018

New Fan Chart Options in FamilySearch

Recently FamilySearch added some new options to its fan chart view. These options have been part of the Consultant Planner for some time, but now they are being made available to all Family Tree users. We’ve updated The Family History Guide with instructions on using these new options, in Project 1: Family Tree, Goal 5: Alternate Views, Choice B. Here’s a...

FamilySearch/Navigation/What is new at The FHG
October 26, 2018

Using Pinterest for Family History

Pinterest is a social media network that allows you to share and discover new interests by posting or “pinning” images and videos to your own “board,” which is a collection of pins with a theme or subject. Think of it as a type of search engine like Google, Bing, or Yahoo but with its own twist. Pinterest has an estimated 200...

Family History Activities/FamilySearch/Social Media/Technology
October 13, 2018

Farewell to Find-A-Record

It’s with a note of sadness that we bid a fond farewell to Find-A-Record, one the most popular and effective online tools for FamilySearch Family Tree. In Project 1: Family Tree (FS) of The Family History Guide, Goal 9 was dedicated to learning and using Find-A-Record, which helped you find data problems, research opportunities, and possible duplicates across your family...

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