Category: What is new at The FHG

Update on Class Outlines

In a blog post dated September 25, we announced Eight New Class Outlines for The Family History Guide. That brought the total to 36 outlines, with Spanish versions also included. Each Class Outline offers a quick and effective way to deliver essential family history training presentations. You can find the complete list of Class Outlines in the Trainers menu of...

What Would You Like to Do?

We recently made a subtle change to the home page of The Family History Guide, adding a new “What would you like to do?” link. This link is primarily designed for users who are new to the website. When you click the link, you’ll see an assortment of seven links which represent tasks that many first-time users of The Family...

Exploring the New FamilySearch Chat Feature

The Messaging feature has been a fixture on the FamilySearch website for years, but it has now been replaced by the new Chat function. The Chat window opens as a pop-up in the main FamilySearch screen so you don’t have to switch between tabs. It includes a chat directory where other FamilySearch users can find you, and you can send...

Update on Practice Exercises

Here is a quick update on the Record Search Practice Exercises that have been added to The Family History Guide. We are pleased to announce that at this time there 333 practice exercises available, each connected to a record collection via a QUIKLink in The Family History Guide, and each with problem statements, hints, and answers. More exercises are on...

New 5-Minute Feature: The Vault

Need a deeper dive into family history topics? Or perhaps you’d just like to go exploring and see what amazing bits of knowledge you can discover. Either way, the Vault section of The Family History Guide has what you need, with links to over a thousand articles and videos on a wide variety of family history topics. We recently published...

New QRB Video: Starting Your Research in Argentina

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Starting Your Genealogical Research in Argentina, by James Tanner. This is the first in a two-part series on Argentina research. You can view this latest video in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Argentina country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and...

New: Introducing Class Outlines

We are proud to announce the arrival of the Class Outlines, a series of new training tools for family history presenters and learners. As of this writing there are 28 class outlines, with both English and Spanish versions. You can access them in the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide, using the new Class Outlines link. About the Class Outlines In...

5-Minute Features: QUIKLinks

One of the most popular features in The Family History Guide is QUIKLinks, which put record collections from multiple platforms at your fingertips. There are QUIKLinks for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FIndmypast in many locations in The Family History Guide. We recently published a new 5-Minute Features video on our YouTube Channel for learning about QUIKLinks. You can watch it...