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January 28, 2019

What Do I Do with This?

Editor’s note: This article was previously published on the Sandy Granite family history blog site by Liz Kennington and is used with her permission. Many years ago when my siblings and I were cleaning out my parents’ home, I was entrusted with all things genealogy. At the time I was thrilled about having those items in my possession. Almost 17 years...

Memories

January 27, 2019

The Value of Church Records in Family History

One of the most rewarding things about doing family history research is the things you can actually discover from all kinds of records. The facts recorded in birth, marriage, and death records on one family can really paint a picture of what life was like for those who have gone before. Some call it “putting the flesh on the bones” when we can acquire information that goes beyond names,...

Country Research/FS Partners/General/Learning/Records/Training

January 20, 2019

Sneak Peek: Online Tracker, Reporting Groups

One of the most popular and powerful features of The Family History Guide website is the Online Tracker. There are currently thousands of people worldwide who are using the Online Tracker to monitor their family history learning and progress. In case you’re not familiar with it, here’s a recap of its main features: Secure login and password management Adding personal...

Learning/Online Tracker

January 20, 2019

New: Come Follow Me Family History Companion Slides

The Come Follow Me Family History Companion has become quite popular in the brief time it has been up on our web site (see our earlier blog post on the Companion for details). It fills a need for including family history activities that are correlated with the Come Follow Me home-centered study from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Training

January 20, 2019

Talking about Blog Posts …

You may have noticed something new in our blog articles… all 230+ of them! There’s a play/pause button in the upper-left corner of each article that enables you to hear the content via text-to-speech translation. Listening to the blog articles can be a benefit for the visually impaired, or for anyone who enjoys a podcast-style experience. The technology comes courtesy of...

Technology/What is new at The FHG

January 14, 2019

The Family History Guide To The Rescue

One of the reasons I am so excited about The Family History Guide is that I remember the day in 2010 when I began working at a Family Search Library. Although I had been doing my own family history since the early 80s, I had no idea what was available electronically or in the stacks of books, periodicals, films, and microfiche in the library. I had no...

General/Learning/Training/Uncategorized

January 14, 2019

30 Things to See

Sometimes trimming down is a good idea. (No, this is not about New Year’s resolutions.) Here, we are talking about a document that was originally titled “50 Things to See and Show in The Family History Guide”. A while back it was reduced from 50 to 40 things, and this past week it was reduced even further to “30 Things...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG

January 13, 2019

100 Questions and Answers

Life has a way of working in circles—experiences from the past sometimes come around again in new ways. Such is the case with the “100 Questions and Answers” reference document in the Media page of The Family History Guide. It was created over a year ago but has recently been refreshed with new content to match the updates to the...

Learning/Training/What is new at The FHG

January 7, 2019

Updates to the Certified Trainers Program

We have a great group of Certified Trainers for The Family History Guide, spanning from Australia to Nigeria. These CTs, as we call them, provide valuable training at family history fairs, genealogy libraries, family history centers, and more. In preparation for new growth in the program, we recently we made some notable changes to the Certified Trainer Program and its web...

Training/What is new at The FHG

January 7, 2019

Using Social Media to Capture Your Family’s History

Sometimes the thought of being a family historian can be overwhelming. Social media can be an excellent way to keep up with our living and deceased family members’ history. This past week has found me frantically trying to finish up last year’s family events with 2018 posts on Facebook. One of the reasons I enjoy this is because our family is spread...

Family History Activities/General/Learning/Memories/Technology