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Consider Donating to The Family History Guide Association

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vwSvn_k9_Y0rhv1OifLIqRGsWUv2mNRj/view As the end of the year approaches, please take a few minutes to click on the link above and consider donating to The Family History Guide. We are preparing to return to RootsTech 2023 in person, but the cost of a booth and all that goes with...

A Message from Our Executive Director

Greetings and Happy Holidays! I’m Bob Ives, the Executive Director and co-founder of The Family History Guide Association. I urge you to please take a few moments and read this entire update. Our mission is “to greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone’s family history journey easier, more efficient, and more...

Holiday Giving and The Family History Guide

This is a great time of year to express thanks for the blessings of family. An important part of that is family history, which gives us a sense of connection to our ancestors, and in turn brings us all closer together and increases our understanding of each other. The Family History Guide Association, a charitable non-profit organization which sponsors The...

Amazon Prime Day Can Be a Great Opportunity to Donate

Prime Day is coming up on June 21 and will run through June 22. This is a great opportunity to support The Family History Guide Association by shopping for deals at smile.amazon.com or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon mobile app. When you designate The Family History Guide Association as your preferred charitable organization in AmazonSmile, Amazon donates a portion...

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...

Funding Options for The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide is different from most family history sites, in that it contains no paid advertising and has no fees. It’s funded by donations to The Family History Guide Association, a charitable non-profit organization. What you may not realize is that there are many different ways to contribute to our cause. We’ve listed a number of them below...

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon Smile

If you’ve done any shopping on Amazon, you;re probably familiar with the Amazon Smile program. That’s where you can designate a charity of your choice to receive a percentage donation with each purchase you make. The Family History Guide is part of Amazon Smile, so you can designate it as your preferred charity for Amazon purchases. In fact, November is...

Triple the Smiles, with AmazonSmile

As you might know, The Family History Guide Association participates in the AmazonSmile program, where you can designate your favorite public charity organization (like us!) to receive AmazonSmile donations when you shop at Amazon. Well, things got even better: first purchases with AmazonSmile now get triple the donations for a limited time. Read on for details, and thanks for your...

Thanks, to the Miller Family Foundation

As a non-profit charitable organization,  The Family History Guide Association depends on tax-deductible donations. We don’t charge for products or run ads on The Family History Guide website, nor do we require subscriptions. Therefore, the contributions we get from donors make all the difference. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation...