Rootstech 2019: A Genealogist's Education Tool

First of all, you can obtain a virtual education by purchasing a pass to "attend" Rootstech from home.  Click on this link.  It's unlikely that you would go this route unless you are a very serious genealogist or family historian.  You will, I'm sure, get your money's worth!

Rootstech is happening twice this year, once in Salt Lake City and again in London! 

So, you can't attend RootsTech in person, either at SLC, Utah or London, England?!!  Don't have the funds for a "virtual pass" ($129)?!!

Hope is not lost!!   There is yet, another option!  Here is the live-stream schedule (selected programs):  https://www.rootstech.org/salt-lake/live-stream-schedule?cid=bl-fsup-8279

Finally, there are "Recorded Classes" that will be available shortly after the end of the 2019 Roots Tech event.  These are free (as they have been publicly available for past years' presentations).  Go to the above link for the live-stream schedule and scroll down on the page to access the recorded classes.  

 To get a taste of the quality of Rootstech presenters, travel on over to the 2018 videos and get some free samples!

A Helpful Site

Sometimes it is the arrangement of a website that makes it helpful.  I located this website and it had links that helped me in locating a particular family in the 1880 census that I was desperate for!

http://www.myfreecensus.com/alabama-census-records.htm

 

A few Genealogy Blogs among a Wealth of Them!

I will be posting some of the genealogy blogs that I find helpful.  Many of them can be sent as a kind of newsletter right into your mailbox!  I suggest exploring just a couple of these per day.  Subscribe to only those blogs that you can read and soak in a week's time. 

• Randy Seaver's:  https://www.geneamusings.com/
• Kitty Cooper's Blog
• Family Tree Magazine
• The Legal Genealogist
• Genealogy's Star
• Organize Your Family History
• The Geneaholic
• https://blog.myheritage.com/

Why Using Pinterest for Genealogy Research should be a Thing!

https://familyhistorydaily.com/free-genealogy-resources/start-using-pinterest-genealogy-right-now/

Use Facebook for Genealogy Research

Thank you, Katherine Wilson!

Old and New or Just Some Standard Places you Can Find Genealogy Internet Links

• https://www.cyndislist.com/categories/
  
• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page
•  https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/25-best-genealogy-websites-for-beginners/
•  https://www.archives.com/
• ancestry.com (Enter this in your browser bar)
• myheritage.com (Enter this in your browser bar)

Search by location, location, location.  Google Maps, Google Earth; Old Maps, etc.  Where did your ancestor live?  I was recently reminded that one of my ancestral relatives was born in Mississippi.  I know that some of those relatives had migrated to Alabama.  Imagine my surprise when I just found some of them in Arkansas!  Why did your ancestor live where he lived?  What factors could cause them to move? 

Maybe, sometimes when people marry, they move to be closer to the relatives (extended family) on the wife's side of the family.  Or, an uncle on the husband's side writes and says "come here"...the water's fine and I can grow anything I want.  Know the counties that surround the county where you found your great grandfather.  Know the boundaries of state lines.  Find your ancestor in a census and find out the "geography" of that county during that time period.  That knowledge will help you understand so much about your ancestral family!

My Family History Fair Topic: Best Internet Sites for Genealogy

First Chapter:
Best Internet Sites for Genealogy:  Websites = Internet technology to find our family history.

However, did you know that finding the right website or a list of websites is often accomplished by:

• reading a good book?...Publications that are fairly recent in date and written by prominent and/ or established authors, can be helpful in pointing the way to online resources!  So access your library's online library catalog to get hold of those titles.  You can also find such books listed at bookstores in your community or at www.Amazon.com.  Use the search box at the top of the Amazon page and enter the search term/phrase "genealogy books".

•  Another "directory" that you want to explore (and for this you, again, will need your computer...), are the many, many, articles online regarding genealogy/aka "family history".  I've attached a list of online publications (sometimes it may even be in the form of a "Blog").  Subscribe to a blog (usually a free resource), newsletter or other online publication for genealogists; these will contain more websites than you know what to do with! Subscribe to a genealogy magazine.

• Next, familiarize yourself with "search engines".  The one search engine that comes to mind is Google.  There are even certain tricks you can utilize in "Google" to find your specific relative, the specific resource you need to find your relative and so forth! 

•  Join a genealogical society (and a historical club, while you're at it)!  You will often get a wealth of suggestions from the other members in their journal or newsletter or face-to-face!

• Take a genealogy class, attend a genealogy conference, or GO TO ROOTSTECH!  These types of experiences will keep you up to date on the latest internet sources for your genealogy research.  You can sit at home and be on the computer all the time but your family history will be much enriched if you get out of the house and see what others are doing in that area!

•  For more suggestions/hints/stuff, Check in for MORE on Best Internet Sites.  We've barely begun!