Tag: Record Search Practice Exercises

New Practice Exercises for The Family History Guide

We have been working hard on adding new Record Search Practice Exercises to the website. We now have over 540 of them, with more to come. Using Practice Exercises is a great way to sharpen your skills with using record collections from around the world. You can easily locate the Practice Exercises using this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8YRrJXc1ofmzF2YGu1FL1plt0qzTG4o-rW4RBvS5lc Countries and Territories with...

Update on The Family History Guide Practice Exercises

The Practice Exercises for The Family History Guide country pages continue to roll along. We now have almost 450 exercises for a variety of records, with problem statements, hints, and answers. As of this writing, the exercises cover 39 countries, 50 U.S. states, and 39 England counties. The Practice Exercises page in the Trainers menu explains how to use the...

Update: New Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide

The Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide offer a simple yet effective way to help you explore a variety of record collections around the world. Each exercise has a problem statement with three research questions and a QUIKLink to a record collection, hints for working with the records, and the answers to the questions. You can see more information...

Update on Practice Exercises

Here is a quick update on the Record Search Practice Exercises that have been added to The Family History Guide. We are pleased to announce that at this time there 333 practice exercises available, each connected to a record collection via a QUIKLink in The Family History Guide, and each with problem statements, hints, and answers. More exercises are on...

Update: More Practice Exercises Are Here

We are continuing to add Practice Exercises for country pages in The Family History Guide. As explained in our earlier blog post, the Practice Exercises are indicated by a colored dot: green for beginning level, blue for intermediate, and brown for advanced. Each exercise has open/close links that display a research statement, hints, and answers. At the time of this...

New in The Family History Guide: Record Search Practice Exercises

If you have been looking for ways to sharpen your record search skills, the new Record Search Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide may be just what you’ve been looking for. The Format The Practice Exercises use the following format: Record Search Practice Objective – a statement of the problem to solve, including several questions to answer. Hints –...