Thursday began early with a nice breakfast with the Storied company promotion – we all received lovely “encouragement” to become engaged with writing our family stories, and learned about the services and support that they offer.
It wasn’t long after, that we had to scurry over to the Main Stage for the opening event. An emotional movie (check out my Facebook post for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSfNA86DIUM … tissues are necessary. Important and helped me to again focus on the importance of EVERY person – Your Story is More Important Than You Think. Watch it … if it doesn’t change you …. well, I can’t imagine that it won’t.
And I became a “Rocky” – when you become a fan of Steve Rockwood ….. I found out that he’s my 8th Cousin, through a …. wait for it …. yes, a French-Canadian family! I found out use the really fun “Relatives at RootsTech” feature on the RootsTech app. Check it out …. you must have a tree on FamilySearch in order to use it.
Then the fun of the Main Stage – where we heard:
- MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT here at #RootsTech2024 FamilySearch launches full-text search that gives us the ability to search images that HAVE NOT YET BEEN INDEXED! 100 million records available via full-text search with more to come.. makes records accessible that would have taken decades to index manually. Records include land & probate records, Mexican notarial records, plantation records. Makes finding underrepresented populations easier. Other major updates and tools coming too!! Thank you, FamilySearch! Amazing
- Ancestry announced Family Groups (I’m an early adopter!) with an announcement by Crista Cowan
- And then Henry Cho who made us laugh so much! What an entertaining time!
Then heading off to classes …. SO many to chose from. But I wanted to see what the National Genealogical Society’s new AI Expert and Educator, Steve Little, did with the FIRST session. He was awesome!
And then it was my turn to get into the special room for the Webinars and get my own presentation going – Researching in Ontario: Your Trillium Connection
What it looked like in my “room”:
And the Webinar is available here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/researching-in-ontario-your-trillium-connection?lang=eng – and a note: I mis-spoke and said that the 1941 Canadian Census is available. It is NOT – it’s the 1931 Census. So please forgive me ….. nerves, I guess.
Well, that was it for today! To bed …. it’s ten pm and I need sleep!!
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