What is the Roots Tech Genealogy Conference?
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RootsTech is an opportunity unlike any other to discover the latest family history tools and techniques, connect with experts to help you in your research, and be inspired in the pursuit of your ancestors. It is a conference with a unique emphasis on helping individuals learn and use the latest technology to get started or accelerate their efforts to find, organize, preserve, and share their family’s connections and history. Attendees will learn key skills from hands-on workshops and interactive presentations at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced level.
Who Should Attend?
The 3rd annual RootsTech conference has something for everyone, whether you are an avid genealogist, just beginning, or simply want to discover the latest technologies and solutions to better connect with your family. You will learn things like how and where to start with your family history and how to use the latest technology to solve real research problems. With world-class content from speakers all over the country, an exciting exhibitor hall, and great keynote speakers, RootsTech is being re-tooled for young and old alike, regardless of expertise. Come join the fun!
What You’ll Experience
If You Are New to Family History
Attend a new, full track of over 30 Getting Started classes and labs to:
- Learn the basics of starting your family history
- Discover 10 activities you can do to get started
- Get hands-on experience with family history tools
- Additional classes will be offered for LDS Church members where they can learn the importance of family history, the basics to build their family tree and all the great resources to begin
If You Want To Preserve and Share Family Stories
Discover the power of stories and storytelling with classes presented by Story@Home:
- Preserve living memories
- Research family stories and traditions
- Unite families through shared stories
If You Are Experienced in Genealogy
Attend hands-on workshops and interactive classes to:
- Expand your skills and knowledge to accelerate your research
- Help influence the future of genealogy
- Learn and share new ways to adapt technologies to genealogy
- Help leading-edge technology providers better understand your needs
- Participate in panels, product demos and many networking opportunities
If You Are a Developer
Attend the Developer Day on Friday wth sessions specifically designed to help you:
- Explore the latest concepts and techniques to influence your app building, including:
- Crowdsourcing
- Genealogy Workflow
- Javascript apps
- FamilySearch Platform and API’s
- Discover available resources and software development trends from industry leaders and pioneers
- Understand and discuss difficult problems in a rapidly-growing market segment
- Access sponsors, vendors, and exhibitors that provide tools and services to enable innovations
RootsTech 2012 by the Numbers
- Over 4,000 registered attendees from 46 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and 23 additional countries
- Over 50,000 views of live streaming sessions
- More than 90 key bloggers attended from Australia, Canada, Israel, the U.K. and the U.S.
- 20 official sponsors: Archives.com, Microsoft, Ancestry.com, brightsolid, NGS, Dell, NEHGS, FGS, APG, BYU, Avanade, Lenovo, Lexmark, vmware, IIMI, Savvis, Sprint, HP, and ViaWest
- 93% of attendees reported they were very satisfied or satisfied with the value of the information received at RootsTech, and 2013 promises to be even better!
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June Lecture
Thursday, June 6, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Santa Cruz Public Library, Central Location
(2nd floor meeting room)
224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
For more information, please call (831) 427-7707, ext. 5794; Email: IVCLB@comcast.net
Speaker:
Pamela Erickson
Lecture Topic:
Planning a Successful Research Trip
When you discover that your family moved to a location you have never seen, do you want to visit the area and learn what resources are available? Or, have you wanted to go to Salt Lake City and use the vast collection available at the Family History Library? Remember, too, that the tips we cover also apply to visiting your local library.
With the cost of airline tickets or gas for our vehicles, we need to make sure we’re prepared before setting off. We’ll spend time together to determine what you should do before you leave, what you should pack, and what arrangements you should make. Each visit will require slightly different preparation, so we will go over what’s necessary and what’s optional according to where you go, how long you will be gone, and what places you plan to visit.
Carolyn Barkely said in an article last February,
“First, remember that research is a cycle of work with several important steps: planning, collection, organization, analysis, reporting, and then planning once again. Each research trip builds upon the work accomplished in previous trips and sets the stage for work to be accomplished in future ones.” Bring your ideas to share, too. Let’s work together to plan a successful research trip.
Pamela Erickson teaches genealogy and creative/memoir writing to adults in San Jose, California and surrounding cities and has done so for over 20 years. She has helped her students research their families in the United States and around the world and leads a group of interested people to Salt Lake City, Utah every spring for a week of genealogy research at the LDS Family History Library.
Her personal family research started as a child and has taken her to the Southern states, Canada, and across the pond to Great Britain, Sweden, France, and the Czech Republic. Pamela has researched and written over 250 articles for newspapers, magazines, and educational books and has been employed as a journalist, technical writer, and editor. She has taught at genealogy conferences around California and at writing conferences in California and Florida.