Category: Training

Introducing the Trainer’s Corner

Recently we changed up the Trainers menu in The Family History Guide a bit. We have consolidated a few of the entries, and we have introduced the Trainer’s Corner, a place to find great tips and resources for training. Here’s a look at what you’ll find in the new Trainer’s Corner page: Instructor Prep and Delivery This section combines several...

The Family History Guide and Home Schooling

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. After living through the effects of last week’s announcements about the Coronavirus COVID-19 and the fact that many schools across the United States are now temporarily closed, it seems to me to be a natural extension of the school...

Introducing the Sample Outlines

In an earlier article, Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines, we described the concept of using a sample course outline to prepare family history courses. The Sample  Outline can be modified to suit your needs as you teach family history topics right from The Family History Guide website. We have recently added several Sample Outlines to The Family...

Training with The Family History Guide: Sample Outlines

I recently posted the following in our Facebook Trainers & Consultants page: “Last week I taught a one-hour class on newspaper research at our local family history center. I was filling in for an instructor who couldn’t make it. I had a few days to prepare, but rather than put together a slide deck I decided to teach the class...

The Demo Training Guide

We blogged earlier about the terrific volunteers who are assisting us this year at RootsTech 2020. A few weeks ago we also did an online training session for them,  to get everyone up to speed on giving demos for The Family History Guide website at RootsTech.  It occurred to us that the document we used for training, with a few...

10 Tips You May Have Missed in The Family History Guide

If you’ve been around The Family History Guide for a while you’ve probably used the Country pages, the Projects, the Activities, etc. But there are some other useful features on the website you may not have seen. Here’s a list of 10 tips for using some cool features in The Family History Guide (not in order of importance), along with...

Presenting The Family History Guide at Societies and Libraries

A “ground-floor” opportunity is usually defined as a chance to enter an organization or effort at an early and influential stage. The Family History Guide has such an opportunity, albeit a volunteer one. (We are volunteers at The Family History Guide Association, so that should come as no surprise, really.) The ground-floor opportunity is this: presenting The Family History Guide...

The Family History Guide Training in Nigeria

In the nation of Nigeria, family history work is especially challenging due to the limited availability of records. Most of the  genealogy is traditionally kept in oral histories, with little being written down. Also, computers and internet access are not as widespread as in many countries. But those challenges are not stopping a tireless group of consultants and family history...

It’s Back: The Events Page

After a several-month hiatus, our Events page is back online—and there’s a lot going on this year. You can find the Events page in the Misc. menu. Below is a snapshot of the next half-year of events so far for The Family History Guide Association, as listed on the Events page. More details will be added as they become available....

RootsTech Mini-Class Schedule at The Family History Guide Booth

If you plan to be at RootsTech 2020 in Salt Lake City (Feb. 26-29), be sure to stop by our booth in the Exhibit Hall (#933) … we would love to say hello and get acquainted. In addition to demos of the website, we will be offering 20-minute Mini-Classes on various aspects of The Family History Guide. The initial class...