It has been a busy summer for The Family History Guide Association! Here are a few of the notable events that happened in the past month:

BYU Education Week

This popular annual event on the Brigham Young University campus was held August 21-23. The Family History Guide was represented with a booth where we gave demos and answered questions. Scott Anderson, a popular Education Week speaker and our Director of Public Relations, gave several presentations to packed halls, and he wove the story of The Family History Guide into each of them. His enthusiasm for family history and the good that it does in the world was definitely contagious!

BYU Webinar: What’s New in The Family History Guide

This was presented on August 15, and the recording is available on the BYU FHL YouTube Channel. Below is a summary list of new items in The Family History Guide website since the beginning of 2019 (the webinar covers each of these points in depth):

1. Home page: arrows in the top menu, four path tiles
2. Updated Get Started page
3. Show Me videos
4. Pages for the Ancestry App
5. Ancestry DNA – ThruLines
6. MyHeritage DNA updates
7. Improved mobile formatting
8. More QUIKLinks, lightning bolts added
9. Project pages for FamilySearch Family Tree app, Memories app
10. Expanded Topics page
11. U.S. / General Knowledgebase
12. International Knowledgebase
13. Basque ethnic group page
14. Exercises in Country pages
15. State, province, and England county entries in the Online Tracker
16. YouTube video info buttons
17. Goal Quizzes for FamilySearch
18. FMP DNA
19. Redesigned Activities Index
20. Leadership slides and Consultant training slides (Faiths menu)
21. Come, Follow Me page

Coming Soon

The Family Roots Conference will be held September 27-28 at the Dixie Convention Center in St. George, Utah. If you plan to attend, be sure to stop by The Family History Guide exhibit booth and say hello—we will be right across from the FamilySearch booth. And don’t forget RootsTech London, coming October 24-26!