Whether you want to attend an institute, a cruise conference, or virtual conference, there’s something for everybody in this line up! Family Tree University Virtual Conference, March 9-11, online!  Instructors include Thomas MacEntee, Lisa A. Alzo, Lisa Louise Cooke, Diana Crisman Smith, and Nancy Hendrickson.  Since the classes are pre-recorded, you may download it during [...]

The RootsTech Exhibit Hall had something for everyone, genealogists AND techies.   For your benefit, I’ve created a virtual exhibit hall.  Since it never closes, you may walk this hall in your pajamas!  (These are the companies that had a presence at the exhibit hall.  Obviously there are other companies doing similar things, but I wanted [...]

This was my roller coaster day.  First, I had fun, fun, fun. This morning I was eager to hear the latest from Tim Sullivan, Ancestry’s president and CEO, and a panel of Ancestry engineers.  Their presentation titled, “Making the Most of Technology to Further the Family History Industry,” kept me taking copious notes.   Sullivan reported [...]

For this morning’s opening address, Josh Coates, addressed the topic, “Exabyte Social Clouds and Other Monstrosities.”  (If you have any idea what that means, you know more than I do.)  As CEO of Instructure, an education software company and founder of Mozy, Coates’s remarks were way over my head.  I’ll have to leave it to [...]

Three cheers for the organizers of RootsTech 2012!  They’ve done it again, even better than last year.  Here’s how it went today: Bruce and I were slow getting to RootsTech this morning, not because we didn’t wake up on time, but because he left his cell phone at home and we had to turn around [...]

Today I attended the Association of Professional Genealogists: Professional Management Conference, held this year in Salt Lake City the day before RootsTech. My day began at 6:15 am.  After I showered and dressed, I blended up some green smoothies, put them in water bottles, and Bruce and I left home at 7:22.  We drank our [...]

Are you not able to attend RootsTech this year and wishing you could?  Now you can!  RootsTech organizers have announced they will be broadcasting LIVE presentations for you to view from home … FREE! Here’s the schedule: Thursday, Feb 2: 8:30-10:00 am: Inventing the Future, as a Community (Keynote Address) by Jay L. Verkler 11:00 [...]

This year’s Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy has come to an end.  Good thing because we have learned a lot and need time to implement it, plus we are all very tired. Highlights: Christy Fillerup and the UGA/SLIG team produced a smashingly successful institute.  If there were any snags, I never noticed them.  I was [...]

This past week has been a whirlwind of genealogy education.  I’ll give you a recap of the highlights on Monday.  In the meantime, I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat to hear the lineup for next year’s Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, so … drum roll … American Research and Records: Focus on [...]

Are you tired yet?  I AM!  I was up ‘til 12:30 AM last night working on my homework, but I got the right answer!  We were supposed to determine a man’s father, and there were at least five or six possible men that had to be considered and eliminated before one man was left standing.  [...]