RootsTech has grown to be the largest genealogy conference in the United States in just three years. It is being held in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 6, 7, and 8 this year. They will be streaming 15 of the conference sessions and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate bloggers like James Tanner from Mesa Arizona that shares the information on his blog before the ink is dry on the original press release! If you haven't ever read him, you should. He'll amaze and entertain you.
You can find James at http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com Here is what he has listed as the session chosen to be in the spotlight this year.
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Thursday, February 6
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Top 10 Things I Learned About My Family from My Couch by Tammy Hepps
1 p.m. to 2 p.m., FamilySearch Family Tree: What's New and What's Next by Ron Tanner
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Intro to DNA for Genealogists by James Rader
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Genealogy in the Cloud by Randy Hoffman
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sharing Your Family with Multimedia by Michael LeClerc
Friday, February 7
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Storytelling Super Powers: How to Come Off as Your Family's Genealogy Hero by David Adelman
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Tweets, Links, Pins, and Posts: Break Down Genealogical Brick Walls with Social Media by Lisa Alzo
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.comby Crista Cowen
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Finding Family and Ancestors Outside the USA with New Technologies by Daniel Horowitz
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Do It Yourself Photo Restoration by Ancestry Insider
Saturday, February 8
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Become an iPad Power User by Lisa Louise Cooke
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Information Overload: Managing Online Searches and Their Results by Josh Taylor
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., A Beginner’s Guide to Going Paperless by Randy Whited
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History by Tom Taylor
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Five Ways to Do Genealogy in Your Sleep by Deborah Gamble"
Interested viewers can watch the live presentations at RootsTech.org. Remember it is Mountain Standard Time for the live streaming.
I have the good fortune to be able to attend this conference so will not be doing any staff training next week. But I'll be back with hopefully some great new things to share with all of you.
I am particularly interested in hearing Ron Tanner the Chief Developer for Family Search Family Tree on Thursday 1:00-2:00 pm (MT Standard Time Zone!) from the line up of classes to be streamed. I feel I have fallen a little behind on keeping up with this team so plan to refocus on that while there and a bunch of other fun topics. I also want to hear Lisa Louise Cooke speak on becoming an iPad Power User as I just bought her book on this subject. And then there is Michael Le Cleric the guy who does Genealogy Tip of the Day, and the Ancestry Insider, and Crista Cowan of ancestry.com and Josh Taylor of Who Do You Think You Are! The list goes on and on! Wish you were all coming with me! All the great bloggers are going to be speaking and it is going to be fun. One of the Keynote speakers is the Pioneer Woman, also a famous blogger in her own right although not about genealogy as far as I know. Family History on the other hand, is something she is creating and preserving it daily on her ranch and in her kitchen and with her family! I saw the movie The Book Thief tonight and one of the quotes that struck a cord with me was "Life is Words." I couldn't agree more. Live it and then write it! The movie was simply beautiful and very poignant if you haven't seen it....Do!  Happy Hunting...Bonnie |
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