The recording of "Families Discovering Family History Together," my RootsTech 2019 presentation with Olivia Jewell and Jana Greenhalgh was just released on the RootsTech Video Archive page. I loved preparing for this class and presenting it with two other moms who are just as passionate about sharing family history with our children and families as I am. Check out Olivia's blog here: Liv's Treehouse and Jana's blog here: The Genealogy Kids. I talked about my five-year-old daughter's experience finding strength from her brave female ancestors during an ER visit, our farmer ancestor role play experience, and making felt family trees...
If you're like me, you keep your family's current photos on a cloud site like Google Photos, but you also have old family videos on YouTube, genealogy documents on Google Drive, and ancestor memorial pages on FamilySearch, Ancestry, and Fold3.com. At RootsTech, I met Stan Kinsey, whose new tool, Collectionaire, can help you build a hub or table of contents which acts as an web portal to all your family's online content. Isn't this an innovative idea? Instead of feeling like your content is scattered across multiple cloud sites, you can organize links to it all in one handy website....
D. Joshua Taylor gave an excellent lecture at RootsTech about how to resolve conflicts in genealogy research. He said that if you are not finding any conflicts in your genealogy research, you may not be doing reasonably exhaustive research. During his lecture, he reviewed 8 methods for resolving conflicts, and gave several helpful examples. It was a great lecture. I'm sharing the first few steps that he suggested. Bio: D. Joshua Taylor is the President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, host of Genealogy Roadshow (PBS), and a frequent speaker on family history at venues across the globe....
We would love to see you at RootsTech. Here is a list of our classes! To view the full schedule, go here: RootsTech Salt Lake City 2019 Schedule. For a full listing of all our activities, sales, and class materials from RootsTech, please go to our webpage here: https://familylocket.com/rootstech/. Diana The FamilySearch Catalog: A Researcher's Best Friend, Diana, Wednesday 11am (Room 255) and repeated on Thursday 1:30pm (Room 254A) Perspectives on Accreditation, Power Hour, Diana with Julie Stoddard and Lisa Stokes, Friday 8am (Room 150) Research Logs: A Key to Organized Genealogy, Diana, Saturday 9:30am (Room 155B) Nicole Organize Your...
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As an ambassador to RootsTech in Salt Lake City again this year, I have the pleasure of giving away one free pass to the conference. Before I share the details of the giveaway, I want to share some of the things Diana and I are doing at RootsTech. Classes I am teaching a class on Wednesday at 9:30am called Organize Your Research with Google Drive. I have enjoyed preparing for this lecture and learning about all the capabilities of Google Drive and Google Documents. I just turned in the syllabus last week, and let me tell you, there are so many reasons...
Today at RootsTech I'll be teaching about Confederate soldiers and how to learn about them with online collections and articles. The online syllabus with links to collections is available here: Sources to Research Confederate Soldiers Online - RootsTech syllabus with additional resources After the class today, I will also share the slides from the presentation. I started researching my Confederate soldiers when I taught my children about Memorial Day last year. My 7-year-old son wanted to learn about members of our family who died while serving in the military. I needed to discover more about our Confederate relatives before I...
Diana presented two classes today at RootsTech, and we are sharing her presentation slides as PDF files for you to download and view for future reference: Source Citations Getting Organized One Paper at a Time We hope these are helpful for you! It was fantastic to meet so many of you today. If you are interested in purchasing our book that launched this week on Amazon, click here: Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide. Thank you to everyone who purchased the book on launch day - we were so happy that the book reached #1 bestseller in the genealogy reference...
RootsTech Family Discovery Day is March 3, 2018. This year, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Kristen M. Oaks, will be the keynote speakers. Previous Discovery Day talks have been so enlightening - bringing new ideas and perspectives to the doctrine of temple and family history work. I love hearing the different ways the general authorities approach this topic and their unique experiences. Learning from Elder and Sister Nelson at RootsTech Discovery Day 2017 inspirational. The "sacrifice of time" and Scrabble theme were memorable and encouraging. I loved learning about Sister Nelson's idea...
RootsTech has been an enormously inspirational event for me. RootsTech 2016 was my first year attending the conference in person and 2017 was my first year as an ambassador and speaker. It is by far my favorite genealogy experience. Diana and I feel privileged to be RootsTech ambassadors again for 2018. We are both speaking at the conference this year, which we are thrilled about. So, I mentioned that RootsTech is inspirational. Both times I have attended, I have come away with so many ideas and new plans. Here are three things that I learned from RootsTech 2016 and 2017 that inspired me...
I'm excited to talk about innovation again as a RootsTech ambassador! This article is about some of my favorite innovations that I learned about at RootsTech and also about the changes coming for RootsTech 2018. With the announcement from RootsTech that they are moving away from the Innovator Showdown to the all new "Innovator Showcase" at the 2018 conference, I've been thinking about my favorite family history innovations that I learned about at RootsTech. Here's my list: JRNL - I learned about JRNL at RootsTech 2016. Their online platform for keeping a journal is just what I needed to keep...
