For the very first time, I will be attending the largest genealogical conference in the world, RootsTech — being held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This will also be the first genealogical conference I have ever attended (exciting!). In past years, I’ve attended other conventions (mostly Comic Cons) but this is only the second conference in my field and passion of genealogy + death I’ve been to.
This year I’m looking forward to classes, lectures, and meet-ups that I’ve never been to before, some of which are:
Wednesday
9:30am
- British Geographic Resources: an Introduction – Tahitia McCabe
11:00 AM
- Translation & Transcription Tools for Genealogy – Thomas MacAntee
1:30 PM
- Italian Civil Registration and FamilySearch – Suzanne Russo Adams
4:30 PM
- General Session – CEO of FamilySearch
Thursday
8:30 AM
- General Session – Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York)
11:00 AM
- Call to Action: Diversity in Family History Tech – D. Joshua Taylor
1:30 PM
- Epitaphs & Icons: Discoveries In The Graveyard – Mary Jamba
8:30 PM
- NextGen Meetup
Friday
11:00 AM
- The Great War: Researching Your British WWI Family – Jen Baldwin (FindMyPast)
1:30 PM
- An Ancestor’s Death — A Time for Reaping – Curt Witcher
3:00 PM
- Loose Women: Record Search for the Female Felon – Janis Forte
Included in part of this trip are a few meet-ups, some with friends and some with groups, like NextGen. What parts of RootsTech are you most looking forward to?
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