{"id":37,"date":"2017-09-11T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:57:03","slug":"fostering-independent-learning-with-the-family-history-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/fostering-independent-learning-with-the-family-history-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Independent Learning with The Family History Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teacher-student-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teacher-student-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teacher-student-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teacher-student.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I love the most about\u00a0<b>The Family History Guide<\/b>\u00a0is how it allows a person to grow and learn independently. \u00a0Of course everyone needs help when they are getting started with family history, but how long can a person realistically sit at another person&#8217;s elbow as they go forward in their learning? \u00a0If we don&#8217;t foster that independent learning and their confidence that comes from it, we are doing them a disservice by creating a co-dependency.<\/p>\n<p>I am not saying that we can only help them so long and then they are on their own. \u00a0Everyone is an individual with specific needs. \u00a0We should always be available\u00a0to answer any questions that people have. \u00a0But if we don&#8217;t allow them to try on their own after a training period, they will not progress as they could and should.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<strong>The Family History Guide<\/strong> provides so much of what we all need. \u00a0Instructions on how to do many things and\u00a0resources of all kinds. \u00a0I like that the resources are together under one roof and that we can browse through\u00a0so many of them. By browsing through them we can actually see what is available in the first place. \u00a0It is hard to Google a resource you have never heard of before. With the <strong>Projects<\/strong>, <strong>Topics<\/strong> and the <strong>Vault<\/strong>, the <strong>Newsletters<\/strong>, we can learn and move forward in a very unique way. \u00a0<strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Family History Guide<\/strong>&#8230;actually\u00a0<b>guides<\/b>\u00a0us! \u00a0What a perfect name!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/menu1-114x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/menu1-114x300.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/menu1.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/>Last week in the staff training at our library we had a great discussion about this. \u00a0When we went to the\u00a0<b>Countries<\/b>\u00a0in the\u00a0<b>Family Search<\/b>\u00a0drop-down menu we recognized that for each country\u00a0listed in the program we can now just sit with our patrons and learn with them with the Family History Guide. If we have a lot of patrons we can help a person get started and then come back and help them after getting another person started on their country of interest. \u00a0We have a lot of diversity here in the Bay Area. \u00a0At least 21 different languages are spoken here and probably more. \u00a0We also have lots of ethnicities.\u00a0<b>Countries<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Ethic<\/b>\u00a0sections solve a big problem for us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We have a board with names of individuals that specialize\u00a0in various languages and ethnicities in our Family Search Library. Of course those specialists are not always there when they are needed. \u00a0We realized that now we can all help anyone get started with <strong>The Family History\u00a0Guide<\/strong>. \u00a0No one will have a wasted trip coming in to get started because\u00a0we don&#8217;t know how to help them. \u00a0This is huge in my book! \u00a0No one needs to be an expert in everything, we just have to know where to look and where to point our patrons. \u00a0Even if they never return again, they have what they need to go forward when they walk out the door. We can give them the website &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.thefhguide.com<\/strong><\/a>&gt; We can help a lot more people with this one amazing tool called <strong>The Family History\u00a0Guide<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All of this applies equally to people that are learning on their own. \u00a0If we become familiar with\u00a0<b>The Family History Guide\u00a0<\/b>website we can help ourselves and also get help in any of the 5000 worldwide, free Family Search Libraries or Family History Centers. 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