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June 20, 2025

RootsTech Highlights The Family History Guide

A week ago, FamilySearch sent out an email to RootsTech subscribers that noted upcoming webinars and industry highlights. In the Industry Highlights section of the email, The Family History Guide was mentioned with a link to the site: “The Family History Guide is a learning, resource, and activities center for family history. It’s designed for all levels, from beginners to...

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June 20, 2025

What AI Says about The Family History Guide

I recently asked Microsoft Copilot this basic question: “What Is The Family History Guide?” Here is the response I got: “The Family History Guide is a free, comprehensive learning system designed to help people explore and document their family history. It offers step-by-step guidance for using popular genealogy platforms like FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast. What makes it especially useful...

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May 11, 2025

Greater Omaha Genealogical Society and The Family History Guide

The Greater Omaha Genealogical Society is one of the largest in the state of Nebraska. As noted on its website, its goals are to The society also publishes a regular newsletter to its members, and the May issue has a Genealogy 101 article that spotlights The Family History Guide. We are grateful to Thad Call, Director of Publications for the...

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May 11, 2025

New Intern for The Family History Guide Association: Zion Robertson

We are excited to announce that a new intern for The Family History Guide has started working with us – please welcome Zion Robertson! Zion got an early intro by helping us at The Family History Guide booth during RootsTech 2025, giving intros to guests about the website and answering questions. Here’s a bit about Zion: We’re excited to have...

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March 9, 2025

A Look Back at RootsTech 2025 …

RootsTech 2025 concluded on Saturday, and from the perspective of The Family History Guide it was a great experience. In a previous blog post we outlined the webinar and speaker sessions by members and partners of The Family History Guide Management Team. Those sessions went well and were well-attended. For example, Miles Meyer’s webinar on U.S. census records had over...

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February 23, 2025

The Family History Guide Booth at RootsTech

As you probably know, The Family History Guide Association will have a large booth space in the RootsTech Expo Hall in Salt Lake City in just over two weeks. Here’s a brief recap of what we will be offering at the booth for RootsTech 2025: Here’s a quick rendering of how the booth is shaping up, with the Viewpoint Corner...

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December 28, 2024

Year in Review: The Top 20 for 2024

This past year was a memorable one for The Family History Guide. Here’s a look back at 20 of the events and website features that made 2024 a special year: 20. AI Goal added—With artificial intelligence being applied to genealogy in new ways, this new Goal in The Family History Guide helps you get up to speed on ChatGPT, handwriting...

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December 21, 2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Family History Guide Association

The Management Team of The Family History Guide would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family and friends a safe and happy holiday season. We are grateful for your ongoing support for and interest in family history, and the work you do connect generations together. There is much today that may be worrisome to many of...

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November 30, 2024

Salt Lake City HQ Mission Training Zone and The Family History Guide

On December 9 Bob Ives and Bob Taylor will present an hour-long training session on The Family History Guide for the Missionary Development Team (Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission), for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This team is comprised of family history missionaries who serve for a year, helping others with their family history and doing...

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November 24, 2024

Update to “The Inside Story” video

A few years ago we produced a YouTube video that outlined the story of The Family History Guide, including its beginnings and progress through 2022. We have recently updated the video, changing some slides for personnel and adding exciting new updates to the content. The sections of the video are: A Simple Idea The Idea Evolves Opening Doors People Power...

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