New in The Family History Guide: Link Titles

If you have spent some time looking through the Country and Ethnic pages in The Family History Guide, you’ll realize that there is a lot of great material there. There are thousands of links to articles, videos, websites, and research databases, organized by Goals and Choices.

Several months ago we added a number of intermediate headings in Choices. These split up the numbered steps into sections, making it easier to find the link you want. Example of headings inside Choices include Records, Resources, Locations, etc.

Introducing Link Titles

To help you scan through Choices even faster, we’re taking it a step further with Link Titles. At the beginning of many of the link steps you’ll now see one or more keywords that identify the topic of the link. Here’s an example for the Argentina page:

The keywords in the example above are FamilySearch, Quick Start, Provinces Map, etc. The keywords are displayed in a semi-bold font so they don’t overpower the rest of the text. Not all entries have keywords: they are usually skipped when there are two or more entries with the same topic, or the items are brief and easily scannable by themselves.

In the course of adding titles, we have also added a few headings for better organization. We are working alphabetically through the Country and Ethnic pages to add titles, and currently we are at Romania. We anticipate finishing the title additions in the next few days to a week.

We hope you enjoy the new Link Title in The Family History Guide … happy scanning!

Bob Taylor