Category: YouTube

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...

Getting Excited About Family History!

“Our Turtle House” is a popular and inspirational YouTube channel with over 35,000 subscribers. On August 20, Mark Williams hosted a livestream session with family history experts Shenley Puterbaugh and Scott and Angelle Anderson (the latter two who are members of The Family History Guide team). In the session, the guest speakers share tips and suggestions for how to make...

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...

New on Our YouTube Channel: 5-Minute Features

Today we are introducing a new playlist on our YouTube Channel. It’s called “5-Minute Features,” and it will have a number of short videos that describe how to use important features of The Family History Guide, each in about five minutes or less. The first video in the playlist has been uploaded—it’s Record Search Practice Exercises. This video gets you...

New QRB Video: Research in Italy

We’ve just added a new Quick Research Basics (QRB) video to our collection: Starting Your Genealogical Research in Italy, by James Tanner. You can view it in our QRB playlist, or in Goal 1: Research of the Italy country page, or in the example below. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more QRB videos coming your way!

New QRB Videos: Doing Research in Wales

We have recently added two new QRB (Quick Research Basics) videos to our YouTube Channel. Narrated by James Tanner, these videos offer a step-by-step approach to doing family history research in Wales. There are now nearly 80 QRB videos available in The Family History Guide. Here are the new QRB videos: TFHG – Starting Your Genealogical Research in Wales TFHG...

New QRB Videos: Researching in Libraries and Archives

We are excited to announce the addition of three new QRB (Quick Research Basics) videos to our YouTube Channel. Narrated by James Tanner, these videos provide a great introduction to doing family history research in libraries and archives, as well as using their online resources. Here are the videos: TFHG Library and Archive Research, Part 1 – Intro TFHG –...