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March 10, 2019

Attending Rootstech 2019 Was Unforgettable

I am still feeling the exhilaration of Rootstech, after my return home on Tuesday. The atmosphere is just electrifying there in Salt Lake City’s Salt Palace. It is a pure joy to be among people who have a desire to do their family history. In doing so, we can gather tangible evidence of our ancestors and preserve and treasure it. Often it...

FamilySearch/Learning/RootsTech/Training

March 4, 2019

RootsTech 2019 Recap: Beyond Words

Now that RootsTech 2019 has concluded, it almost seems like it went by in a flash—but what a flash that was! By all accounts it was our most successful RootsTech ever, in terms of number of people reached and the feedback we got from them. And the new tower and monitor display at our booth were a hit with the...

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

March 4, 2019

A Healthy Addition of Exercises

At the end of most Choices in The Family History Guide are Exercises links. These Exercises help you achieve Good or Proficient status for skills. They also provide criteria to help you rate yourself in the Word Tracker (status) or the Online Tracker (slider bars). These Exercises have been available for Projects in FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast. Recently we...

Online Tracker/What is new at The FHG

March 4, 2019

Where Are the Daughters?

Editor’s Note: This blog post from Liz Kennington was originally published on February 2, 2019 and is reprinted here with her permission. One of the difficult things about doing family history work is finding all the women in the family. Even if you don’t know a wife’s maiden name, you at least have a clue when there is a “Mrs” mentioned....

Records/Research

February 25, 2019

Getting Our Posterity to Love Family History

Rootstech is almost here! I am so excited to be returning to Salt Lake City to attend. I hope you are too! This is my 6th Rootstech experience and it just keeps getting better. Last year was my first year working for The Family History Guide. Working in the Expo Hall at RT, teaching some mini-classes in our booth, doing demos of the...

Church Of Jesus Christ/Family History Activities/Family History Travel

February 24, 2019

RootsTech 2019: It’s This Week!

RootsTech 2019 is fast approaching, and The Family History Guide has been very busy preparing for the event. Here’s a recap of who’s doing what for The Family History Guide at the event: Bob Ives is handling the logistical operations for The Family History Guide at RootsTech. Bob Taylor is updating the website and preparing for two presentations, on Thursday...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG

February 24, 2019

Passion and Paths: The New “Get Started” Page

As we know, The Family History Guide has a lot of content—although not nearly so much as sites like FamilySearch, Ancestry, etc. And when we compare those huge websites to the sum total of family history, such as all the family photos, documents, and records kept in the world, those sites pale in comparison. Occasionally someone new to The Family History...

Navigation/What is new at The FHG

February 17, 2019

Spread The Guide

We at The Family History Guide Association are looking forward to RootsTech 2019! One of the most enjoyable experiences is watching the “light bulbs” go on with people as they watch a demo or listen to a presentation of The Family History Guide. It never gets old. Besides enjoying and using The Family History Guide, what do you do next,...

Family History Activities/RootsTech/Social Media/The Family History Guide Association

February 17, 2019

What’s New: Web Versions for Media

The Media page of The Family History Guide has a large assortment of brochures and flyers available for free viewing and download. The media items are mostly in PDF format, with an occasional Microsoft Word document designed for editing. They are easy to use for just about any purpose. However, there is a limitation with PDFs and Word docs: they...

What is new at The FHG

February 17, 2019

Cleaning Up with Tree Sweeper

In a previous post, we said farewell to Find-A-Record, a popular program for updating and maintaining your data in FamilySearch Family Tree. It was featured in Project 1: Family Tree in The Family History Guide. Now there is a worthy successor to Find-A-Record: it’s Tree Sweeper, from the BYU Family History Technology Lab. In a nutshell, Tree Sweeper examines your...

FamilySearch/Technology/What is new at The FHG