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May 3, 2020

Welcome to Our Two New BYU Interns

We are excited to have two new Interns with us, who are currently students in the Brigham Young University Family History Department. Please join us in welcoming them to The Family History Guide Association. They will be working to improve and expand content in The Family History Guide, in their areas of expertise. Zachary Matthews Zach specializes in United States...

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

May 3, 2020

More Giving Options for The Family History Guide Association

There are now two new ways to support The Family History Guide Association, as explained in the paragraphs below. For more information on how you can donate to The Family History Guide Association, click here. Fidelity Fund We are now registered with the Fidelity Charitable Giving Fund. Essentially, this is a fund devoted solely to donating...

The Family History Guide Association

April 26, 2020

The New Africa Country Pages

You’ve probably seen the South Africa country page in The Family History Guide. Now it is being joined by four new country pages: Democratic Republic of the Congo Ghana Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) Nigeria You can access these pages from the Countries menu by clicking All Countries and selecting them from the list; or, you can select Asia/Pacific/Africa and then...

Country Research/Research/What is new at The FHG

April 26, 2020

Update: Ancestry Academy Videos

Ancestry Academy has published training videos on a wide variety of genealogy topics. many of which are linked from The Family History Guide. You may not be aware that recently Ancestry Academy has made some changes in their video catalog. Here’s a summary: The URL formats for most of the articles have changed. The new URLs are included in The...

Ancestry/Navigation/Research/Training/U.S. Research

April 26, 2020

How to Analyze Genealogical Sources: Part Three

Editor’s Note: This article by James Tanner appeared recently in the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is used with the author’s permission. It has been a while since I started out with a pancake illustration. This is the best example of what is involved with the levels of jurisdiction in geographical naming conventions. There is a legal definition of the...

Records/Research

April 19, 2020

New Goal for Goldie May in The Family History Guide

Several weeks ago we announced the new partnership between the Goldie May research assistant and The Family History Guide Association (read the article here). In the past few days we have added a new Project 4 Goal for Goldie May, with Choices and step-by-step instructions for using it. Here’s a summary of the Choices in the Goal: Choice A: Installation—Get...

FamilySearch/Research/What is new at The FHG

April 19, 2020

Checking Out the 100+ Top Blogs

Recently I’ve been going through a list of the “Top 100 Blog Sites” in the world, on https://blog.feedspot.com/genealogy_blogs, as well as some not on the list. The idea is to find links to additional articles that would be beneficial for The Family History Guide. It has been well worth the effort, as hundreds of new links have been added from...

Learning/What is new at The FHG

April 19, 2020

How to Analyze Genealogical Sources: Part Two

Editor’s note: This article by James Tanner originally appeared in the Genealogy’s Star site and is used with the author’s permission. The most effective way to learn how to analyze any subject is through the “case method.” This is used almost exclusively in law schools to teach people how to be lawyers although the use of the case method does...

Research

April 12, 2020

Introducing Our New Education Director, Miles Meyer

We are excited to announce that Miles Meyer is joining us as our new Education Director. We have some important new initiatives we are starting for training, and Miles will be directly involved with them. Here are several of the items: Establishing a strategy for remote training Organizing a new Volunteer Presenters program Expansion of the Certified Trainers program A...

The Family History Guide Association/Training/What is new at The FHG

April 12, 2020

What’s New in The Family History Guide

Here are a few of the updates we’ve made in the last week or so in The Family History Guide: Links to Choices Previously you could link to Goals in The Family History Guide but not to Choices. We have now added the capability of linking directly to any Choice. To do that, you find the Goal URL you want...

FamilySearch/Navigation/What is new at The FHG