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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...

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...

April 27, 2025

New QRB Video: Researching Genealogical Records in Hungary

We have added a new QRB (Quick Research Basics) video by James Tanner, for researching genealogical records in Hungary. This is Part 2 of the QRB series for Hungary and brings the total number of QRB videos on our YouTube Channel to 92. The video is embedded in Choice B of Goal 1 of the Hungary country page, and it’s...

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April 20, 2025

Happy Easter from The Family History Guide Association

We would like to take this opportunity to wish each of you a happy and peaceful Easter season. We are deeply grateful for the work you do in connecting families and generations so their lives and stories will live on with the rising generations. Have a glorious Easter Day!

What is new at The FHG

April 13, 2025

Update: Introduction Video for 2025

We recently uploaded a revised Introduction to The Family History Video, for 2025. You can find it on our YouTube Channel, and it’s included below for your convenience. It highlights the recent changes to the home page, the top menu revisions, and several new features in The Family History Guide. You can also find this video on the home page,...

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April 13, 2025

New QRB Video: Starting Research in Hungary

This week we added a new QRB (Quick Research Basics) video by James Tanner, for beginning research in Hungary. This brings the total number of QRB videos on our YouTube Channel to 91. The video is embedded at the start of the Hungary country page, and it’s also included below for your convenience. Enjoy!

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April 5, 2025

Update: Getting Started Page

If you have visited The Family History Guide in the last week or so, you probably noticed a difference in the Home page. The six tiles that were previously on the left (Learn about Us, Learn FamilySearch, Enjoy Activities, Begin to Research, Explore Countries, Find Your Family) have been replaced with a single Get Started tile. This simplifies the Home...

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April 5, 2025

Dates for Viewpoint Broadcasts

The Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid project recently sent us the following message: “The national airing of your commercial is set to take place on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 during Prime Time on Fox Business Network (FBN).” Viewpoint will send exact times for the airings once they are received from the Network, which is typically 24-48 hours in advance. We will...

Training/What is new at The FHG

March 29, 2025

New: RootsTech 2025 Links in The Family History Guide

When you browse the RootsTech 2025 library, you’ll find a huge assortment of videos on a wide variety of topics. Over the past few weeks we have pored through the RootsTech 2025 videos and selected over 100 of the best ones to link to in The Family History Guide. Categories include research in the United States and other countries, research...

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March 23, 2025

RootsTech 2025 Webinar: Training with The Family History Guide

Rootstech 2025 is now in the books, but the good memories still linger. I was able to present a webinar at Roots on Training with The Family History Guide. The webinar is designed for anyone who may be doing family history training or mentoring, such as family history consultants, trainers, librarians, and genealogical society leaders. It also provides some key...

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