Conferences, Events, Fun or What?!!

Announcing the Federation of Genealogical Societies August Conference:  Ta-dum!  Drum Roll!  Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

Just wound up with the RootsTech 2019 event and I loved watching the Free Streaming Sessions!  Some of the presentations were video taped and will be on the Internet soon, (next week).  Those are free also.  I just checked and there are videos that are already for you to explore.

Great learning tool, folks...a way to get your society members excited and informed, or for you loners, it could become an education tool.   And older videos are also available from past years.

New at FamilySearch

Friday at RootsTech.org:  Free Live Streaming Presentations
https://www.rootstech.org/
9 a.m. CST: Friday, March 1st, 2019:  Why and How to Put Yourself into Your Family History (Power Hour)

"In family history, it’s easy to overlook ourselves and the generations we know because we don’t feel like history! But you are a part of your family history. In this Power Hour, Curt Witcher, senior manager of the Genealogy Center, will show you why putting yourself into your family history is so important (along with the science to back it up!). 

Amy Johnson Crow, author and host of the Generations Cafe podcast, will show you how you can include yourself without getting overwhelmed. Scott Fisher, host of the Extreme Genes radio show, will show you interview techniques to get more (and better) stories."

Important Links for the RootsTech Connoiseur

Just a reminder:  

After the Roots Tech Event 

is over, there will be a website where you can go and view several of the 2019 sessions online.  It will be similar to this site:  Rootstech 2018, only of course, it will say "2019"!

Or at least that's what I thought.  Here is the URL site/cue: 

Scroll down until you see 

"Recorded Classes at RootsTech 2019"

The following classes are being recorded (not live streamed) during the conference. Recordings will be posted shortly after RootsTech 2019 concludes (on Saturday, I think) and will be available in the video archive.

Recorded Classes (12, by my count).

 

If you have an Ancestry.com membership, you should know this (Notes#1)

My scribblings, notes,  Not a Stenographer!  

Most of the popular companies for genealogy and dna have made some announcements this week at the Rootstech Event, so go to those sites (Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, etc.) and get the news first hand.  Or visit a blogger!

This bit comes from Ancestry.com's The Barefoot Genealogist, from her presentation at Roots Tech, today: 

Really Big with Crista is the Card Catalog at
Ancestry.com
Crista Cowan
Sort it by date
 

Utilize: Ancestry YouTube Channel and subscribe!
 

Ancestry Announcements
New products: Do you get lost in family tree?  Hacks for this:  Uploading images, of Quaker Oat Man.  For ancestors who were Quakers.  Pics of ships, etc.  My tree tags available immediately!
 

Tags:  helps you find your way back to someone or something. 
Gives info about that person
Person Card
Side Panel "workplace"
Notes are private! 
Comments are public
My Tree Tags
Universal Tags
Relationship tags: DNA, died young, descendants, "had no children" (descendancy), never married, etc.
Tags for orphan, etc.
Research Tags: is info accurate?  Allows you to tag research status: These may be relevant later.  Hint system: Hypothesis maybe.
Actively researching tag.  Helps you to get back on point. 
Brick Wall! 
"Complete" tag?
Reference Tag: military, royalty, nobility, etc.
Universal tag: DNA match or tag common ancestor or tag anyone along the path of DNA
Create custom tags!
Ways to identify the info or person.  "Scoundrel" tag. 
Updated Tree Option?  Filter My Tree tags: Direct Ancestor.  Helps you  find things faster; helps you ?
15 Million people in DNA at Ancestry
45000 dna matches for average user at ancestry
Updated match list at ancestry. 
Feature: Create groups and label and color them.
Ability to filter dna matches: Upper left hand corner
Filter your match list by groups.  Stars, etc.  Filter by relationship, By new matches. 
Add groups or add a single person to any number of groups.
Ability to add a filter (blue dots); matches not reviewed yet
Filtered by Notes, Private link, Unlinked trees. 
Ancestry trying to reach out to "new" genealogists who have only done dna.
We need "new" and we need you.
Who are our new matches?  Common Ancestors? 
Ancestry: actively looking for dna connections.  You can evaluate connection.
Common Ancestors in other presentations
DNA Match List...New at Ancestry
"Through Lines":  allows you to evaluate evidence (one to many) THRU lines.
What is possible?  New Dna Matches for a week.  Colored groupings.  "Things to Discuss with Christa"; look at shared matches...  Pick an ancestor...  Photos and stories wanted! 
Ancestry has free app for smart phones. 
Christa Cowan on Instagram
Ancestry owns Findagrave: Volunteers; free; innovations; there is an app for that 
Fold 3: owned by Ancestry: military records primarily
Newspapers.com is owned by ancestry
New at Ancestry: Newspapers and extract paragraphs of obits ongoing will be available
Ancestry Pro-Genealogists: specialists:  Irish, Polish and other specific groups.  Where it is online and offline.  Ancestry needs feedback.

 

I am not a stenographer

So, as I've been watching the free streaming sessions at Rootstech, (https://www.rootstech.org/), I've been taking notes.  Most likely, no one will be able to make any sense out of those notes!  A stenographer, I am not!

However, in an effort to get you excited about the presentations, the quality and immense information available there at this event, I am going to attach those notes.  Sometime, next week (after RootsTech at Salt Lake City is over), there will be a free special online archive of many of those presentations!! 

When the live streaming isn't taking place, there are snippets of presentations.  If you have a need to feel positive and be uplifted, you need the RootsTech experience!  

Now, I have to figure out how to publish my notes!  Because I'm not only not a stenographer, but I'm not a computer nerd, either!