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April 25, 2022

The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks

The BYU Family History Library recently posted a new YouTube video titled The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks. This video gives you an inside look at some useful features and tips for using them, such as shared and hybrid topics, hidden gems, resource stars, info buttons, and a lot more. The video has had about 500 views in its...

Learning/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
April 10, 2022

New Video: Mapping Your Roots

We’ve added a new video to our YouTube Channel: Mapping Your Roots, by Miles Meyer. It’s from a presentation he did for The Genealogy Show this month, and it covers essential map concepts for research, such as historical place names, online sites, land and property resources, etc. The video is in the Quick Research Basics playlist and is included below...

Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
April 10, 2022

Genealogy Research … Live

Watching an artisan or craftsman at work can be an enlightening experience. Whether it’s a musician practicing, an architect drawing a plan, or a  sculptor molding clay, you can often see the creative and technical flows coming together. Two genealogy “artisans” of note are James Tanner, blogger, presenter, and Chairman of The Family History Guide Association; and Richard Miller, software...

Research/Training/U.S. Research/YouTube
April 4, 2022

BYU Family History Webinar: The Family History Guide, Tips and Tricks

On April 7 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time, I will present a free webinar for the BYU Family History Library, titled “The Family History Guide: Tips and Tricks.” Here are a few of the topics that I will cover in the presentation: What’s New in The Family History Guide Finding What You Need Hidden Gems Tools for Success The Vault...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
March 27, 2022

Two New Activities Videos

Recently we added two new Activities videos to our YouTube Channel: Weekly Family History Activities, and Supercharge Your Family Reunion with Family History Activities. Both were featured at RootsTech Connect 2022 and were well-received. The Weekly Family History Activities video explains how to use the same-named section in The Family History Guide, and the Supercharge Your Family Reunion video has...

Family History Activities/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
March 13, 2022

A Wealth of RootsTech 2022 Videos

RootsTech 2022 Connect concluded on March 5, but the fun continues! There are over 3,700 videos posted on the RootsTech site, all free to watch at any time. Scroll down to the Sessions area on the home page and then click Explore. To find videos of interest, you can choose search filters such as Getting Started, Content Type, and Topic....

Learning/RootsTech/YouTube
March 6, 2022

New: QRB Video Links

There are now 50 videos in our QRB (Quick Research Basics) playlist on YouTube. These cover a wide range of topics, including U.S. and international research, presented by genealogy experts such as James Tanner, Miles Meyer, and Kathryn Grant. You may have noticed that in many of these videos there are helpful links to external websites. To make it easier...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
February 13, 2022

New QRB Videos for Icelandic Research

We have published two new QRB (Quick Research Basics) videos, narrated by James Tanner: Starting Your Icelandic Research and Researching Records in Iceland. The first video covers important details in Icelandic history and introduces essential types of records in Iceland. The second video gets you started with the records and resources you need for effective research in Iceland. The videos...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube
February 6, 2022

Spotlight Videos 4-6

It’s time for a new round of Spotlight videos for The Family History Guide. If you missed the original set, you can see them (and these latest additions) on our YouTube channel, in the Spotlights playlist. Watch for another set of three videos to be announced in a blog article next week. These newest videos are also including below for...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
January 30, 2022

Introducing Spotlight Videos

We’re excited to announce that we have created a new playlist on our YouTube channel, called Spotlights. These are 30-second videos that introduce some of the great features of The Family History Guide. These are ideal for sharing on social media, as warmups for family history presentations, etc. Each video has an end screen with a link that takes you...

What is new at The FHG/YouTube
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