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February 19, 2018

How Will You Preserve Your Memories?

Gemma Green-Hope captures a scene many of us have faced (or might face in the future) as she describes how after her grandmother’s death in 2010, she had the task of helping her father and uncle sort through some of her grandmother’s possessions. She writes, “I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride.”...

Family History Activities/Memories

February 19, 2018

Keeping Pace

One of the stated goals of The Family History Guide website is to keep our content fresh and relevant. This is a fairly daunting task, given the huge amount of family history information out there on the Internet, and the changing nature of technology. Overall, we’ve been told by our site users that we are doing a good job of...

General/Technology

February 12, 2018

Small Print, Large Benefits

If you’ve spent some time in the Projects area of The Family History Guide. you’re aware of the Goals, Choices, and Steps that you can use to make progress. What you may be missing is in the fine print – the small items we include to help you do a variety of tasks. Here’s a quick review of these items...

General/Learning/Navigation

February 12, 2018

The Family History Fun Basket – It’s Ready when You Are!

Circle up the family for a fun, easy to create family history game that will have you all laughing, learning, and making memories at a moment’s notice! It might be a small, last minute family get-together, or a planned evening with loads of cousins ready to party – whatever the occasion, you will have it covered! You will not only have...

Family History Activities

February 5, 2018

Home Page Updates

To keep things consistent and easy to follow, we don’t re-arrange items on the Home Page of The Family History Guide very often. In the last few days, we’ve added a few touches that we feel will enhance the user experience a bit, while not dramatically changing it. In this case, we have updated the “banner” area – the section...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

February 4, 2018

The “Search” is On

We recently enhanced the Search feature that’s on each page in The Family History Guide. (“Search” helps you quickly find topics and keywords on The Family History Guide website.) Here’s a brief summary of the improvements. When you search, there will be no more ads at the top of results window. Our non-profit status as The Family History Guide Association...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

January 31, 2018

Looking Up, Down Under

We are pleased to announce the addition this week of research pages on The Family History Guide for the Australian States. You can find the links on the Australia country page, below the main photo: Here are the individual links to the Australian State pages: New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Each of these pages features...

Country Research/Navigation/Records/What is new at The FHG

January 29, 2018

Welcoming Our New Content Specialists

It takes a lot of work to keep the website content for The Family History Guide fresh, appealing, and relevant. We have added a group of Content Specialist volunteers to help us bring you the best in family history learning, just where you need it. Our new Content Specialists are: Laurie Beardall, Industry Partners Ada Nelson, Latin America Jim Millecam,...

Country Research/The Family History Guide Association/What is new at The FHG

January 29, 2018

Making Family History Come Alive – Give the Free Kinmapper App a Try

Google “where did my ancestors live” and there will be about 3,920,000 results (in 0.51 seconds no less!) with suggestions from where to find records to how to interpret plot maps. Can we say that this amount of information can be a tad overwhelming? The Family History Guide lists a link on the Youth Activities Page to a lesson plan produced by the National...

Country Research/Family History Activities/Memories

January 26, 2018

The Family History Guide, Coco, and Your Online Ofrenda

I love a happy ending in the movies I watch, and the Pixar Movie Coco met that qualification with shining colors! Not only is the storyline both magical and intense (with a few surprising twists in the plot) – it is a FAMILY HISTORY movie and in my book, those are some of the best! Coco is one of those movies that...

Family History Activities/Memories