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December 1, 2025

New in TFHG: “I Have a Question”

We are excited to introduce the “I Have a Question” page in The Family History Guide. As of this writing, the page features eight videos that each answer a commonly asked question about doing family history research. The videos are brief, about 90 seconds each, and are hosted by our friendly avatars. You can find the I Have a Question...

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December 1, 2025

Invitation: RootsTech 2026 Booth Workers, TFHG

Are you planning to attend RootsTech 2026 in Salt Lake City? We would love to have youhelp as a Booth Worker for The Family History Guide! Thanks to all who have helped us in the past—we’re excited to have you join our expanded booth in the high-energy Expo Hall again. Event Details Booth Worker Information How to Sign Up Please reply ASAP to ann@thefhguide.com if you...

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November 22, 2025

Miles Meyer RootsTech Presentations

Our Education Director, Miles Meyer, will be delivering several feature presentations at RootsTech 2026. Here’s the current list, along with some brief descriptions for each of them, courtesy of the RootsTech website: > Spot misleading census entries > Work around poor indexing and missing records (like the 1890 census) > Use nearby households to uncover hidden connections > Piece together...

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November 16, 2025

More Practice Exercises, England Counties

Over the past few weeks we have added more Record Search Practice Exercises for England counties. Below are the new additions so far, with more to come. To access the England county pages, use the the alphabetical list in the England country page (just below the main picture). To see a complete list of Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide, click here for...

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November 9, 2025

What’s New with Guided Learning Videos

The work with Guided Learning videos in The Family History Guide rolls on! Here are the latest Guided Learning videos, since our last blog post on October 18: New Inline Links The Guided Learning videos are gradually replacing the Class Oulines in the main pages of The Family History Guide. (Class Outlines are still available from the Trainers menu.) We...

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October 25, 2025

New Content Specialist: Barbara Tubbs

The Family History Guide Association welcomes the newest member of its Management Team, Barbara Tubbs, as a Content Specialist. We are excited to have her add her expertise and experience in writing and family history research to our many projects. Here is a brief bio for Barbara, which information is also available in our TFHG Association page on The Family...

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October 18, 2025

New Layout for the Guided Learning Page

If you have visited the Guided Learning page in The Family History Guide, you’ve seen the bullet lists of links to various guided research videos. As we have added more videos, those lists are getting a bit long; so we have switched to links that use image thumbnails, which also adds visual appeal. Here’s a brief example (links not active...

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October 13, 2025

New Guided Learning Videos

The collection of Guided Learning videos continues to increase, with 14 new videos since our last post a few weeks ago. Here are the newest entries, which are also available on the Guided Learning page in the Research Skills menu:

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September 28, 2025

Full-Text Search and FamilySearch Records

At the end of August, FamilySearch released full-text search as a feature on their main website. In a nutshell, full-text search enables you to search for keywords in the actual text of the record, even if the record has not yet been indexed. Previously, unindexed records could be quite difficult to work with due to large amounts of scrolling or...

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