Issue 39.15
The Family History Guide is a website that represents a best-in-class learning environment for family history. Its scope is broad, but its focus is narrow enough to help you achieve your goals, step by step. Whether you’re brand new to family history or a seasoned researcher – or somewhere in between – The Family History Guide can be your difference maker. It is found at http://www.thefhguide.com/.
Some of the features you will find on the site are: Over 350 Goals for learning, supported by over 600 flexible choices. The guide includes step-by-step instructions to make learning easier, and links to over 1,000 videos and articles from FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, and more. There are quick links to search records from multiple sources. They provide project tracker sheets and classroom materials for self-study or group instruction.
Just like any worthwhile pursuit, family history has two essential elements, learning and doing. The Family History Guide helps you do both as you gain an important sense of connection with your family tree. They have a page of seven projects: 1-Family Tree 2-Memories 3-Descendancy 4-Discover 5-Indexing 6-Help and 7-Technology. Each project has skills of learning and doing that you use to apply the skills in many different ways for your ancestors.
Each of the projects has goals, choices, instructions, and resources to help. The goals are activities you can work on, often for an extended period of time or for many ancestors. Choices are different aspects of a goal that you can choose to try. The site has them shown in a suggested sequence, but you can determine the order. The instructions are the step-by-step processes you follow as you complete a choice or task. Resources are links to helpful articles and videos you can use to teach yourself important family history concepts and skills.
Amazingly, it is a free site with no fees or subscriptions for using the website or its contents. Getting more people involved with family history, and more effectively, is the mission of The Family History Guide. The site is not sponsored or endorsed by FamilySearch or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Email info@TheFHGuice.com for more information on this site.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com