{"id":6769,"date":"2020-07-12T19:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2020-07-12T19:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T19:07:44","slug":"whats-new-in-the-family-history-guide-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/whats-new-in-the-family-history-guide-6\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in The Family History Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few of the updates we&#8217;ve included recently in The Family History Guide and some additional details<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/birthday-box-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/birthday-box-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/birthday-box-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/birthday-box-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/birthday-box.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> for each:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surname eBooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As described in\u00a0 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/new-online-book-links\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier blog post<\/a>, we&#8217;ve added over 900 links to online books on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/ebooks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surname eBooks page<\/a>. As a follow-up, we have included instructions at the top of that page for how to access many more free surname books in the FamilySearch Catalog. The public-access books can be easily downloaded and printed so you can search for interesting family biographies and pedigrees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAWS Goal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;JAWS&#8221; stands for Job Access With Speech. It&#8217;s a screen reader that helps blind or visually impaired users access FamilySearch Family Tree. We have added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/project-6-help07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal 7<\/a> to FamilySearch Project 6: Help that explains how to access and use JAWS for navigating and updating Family Tree. The Choices are A) Create a JAWS account and sign in to FamilySearch; B) Perform tree update tasks and research; and C) Learn more about JAWS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More FamilySearch Help Center Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FamilySearch has updated many of its Help Center articles, and we are adding links to a number of them, in Choices where the topics are discussed. This also involves creating Resources sections where additional articles are provided for reference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New MyHeritage Show Me Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks we have added the following Show Me videos for MyHeritage, Project 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EqxyoX69Yd8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal 2, View Tree Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jbgad-wWREU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal 3, Edit Person Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N3qnSsfvj7s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal 4, Add People to Your Tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-xFAAp5VeeQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal 5, View People Lists and Relationships<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few of the updates we&#8217;ve included recently in The Family History Guide and some additional details for each: Surname eBooks As described in\u00a0 an earlier blog post, we&#8217;ve added over 900 links to online books on our Surname eBooks page. As a follow-up, we have included instructions at the top of that page for how to access&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,11],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-familysearch","category-trackers","tag-show-me-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}