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June 5, 2022

MyHeritage Census Helper™ Gets a Major Upgrade

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. MyHeritage Census Helper™ Quoting from a press release: Just before the release of the 1950 U.S. Census in April 2022, we released the Census Helper™, a tool that scans your family tree and compiles a list of your relatives who are very likely to be found in census records....

MyHeritage/Technology

May 29, 2022

Update: 1950 U.S. Census and FamilySearch

As you may know, volunteers have recently been busy indexing records from the 1950 U.S. Census to get them ready for posting on FamilySearch and other sites. In a new development, computer technology is now handling an increased role in the indexing efforts, so volunteers can cover more ground. Here’s the announcement from FamilySearch: “FamilySearch and Ancestry have evaluated the...

FamilySearch

May 29, 2022

Goldie May Unrehearsed Genealogy Research, Episode 8: Iowa Probate Records

From James Tanner: “In this episode of the Goldie May Unrehearsed Genealogy Research, Richard and I explore an ancestor that disappears from the family at a relatively early age. The goal is to see if he died or simply left. We explore historic Iowa County Atlases, some probate records, searching on Ancestry.com and the Images records on FamilySearch all supported...

U.S. Research/YouTube

May 29, 2022

The “Years” Project Wraps Up

The “Years” project is the task of adding the year of origin for most articles and videos in The Family History Guide. It started with the entries in the Vault, and now just about every Project page on the site has the years added for links. With some sites, the year of creation for the article or video can’t be...

What is new at The FHG

May 23, 2022

Tasks, Suggestions, Problems … and The Family History Guide

FamilySearch has several features to help you expand and maintain your part of the Family Tree: Recommended Tasks, Research Suggestions, and Data Problems. These items are summarized below, with information about how The Family History Guide can help you address each of them. Recommended Tasks Open Family Tree and click the FamilySearch logo (upper left). Your home page appears, with...

FamilySearch/Research

May 23, 2022

Upcoming BYU Webinar: Research with The Family History Guide

The BYU Family History Library keeps rolling out great family history instruction videos, and we are honored to be part of their upcoming schedule. On Thursday, July 7 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time I will be presenting a webinar titled “Research with The Family History Guide.” It will go into depth on the research menus, tools, and resources available in...

Country Research/U.S. Research/What is new at The FHG/YouTube

May 23, 2022

Unrehearsed Genealogy Research, Episode 7: New York, Early 1800s

From James Tanner: “We are on YouTube again with another episode of Unrehearsed Genealogy Research, Episode 7: New York, early 1800s. In this episode, we look at an end of line in my own part of the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. A land record provides the best evidence for the presence of a husband and wife in the given county of New York....

U.S. Research/YouTube

May 15, 2022

Getting to Know the U.S. State Pages

As you know, The Family History Guide has research pages for many countries, including the United States. Just below the Statue of Liberty picture on the main U.S. page is a list of links to all 50 states, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. 12 Goals The overall structure of each state page is the same – 12 Goals, plus...

Navigation/Research

May 15, 2022

Getting the Help You Need

Family history is one of the most rewarding activities we can do, partly because it is so multi-faceted. Where else could you get immersed in family relations, history, geography, culture, migration, and much more, all pieced together into one mosaic? But all of that beautiful complexity may come with a sizeable learning curve for many of us. Fortunately, The Family...

Country Research/Learning/U.S. Research

May 15, 2022

Goldie May Subway Map Now Works with Ancestry.com

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://youtu.be/9K2E6ZPWxfY Goldie May’s timeline tool, called the Subway Map, now works with Ancestry. You can watch the short demo above to see how this works. You can also view all of the current and future videos from GoldieMay.com on the Goldie May YouTube Channel. See https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuk8GVz6D_jiyvEFSGJnKw/featured New...

Ancestry/U.S. Research