The RootsTech 2014 Family History and Technology Conference is Thursday, February 6 to Saturday, February 8th in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Ten thousand people will be there, but you can participate from home. Fifteen of the RootsTech sessions will be live streamed – anyone can watch these beginning on Thursday, February 8th, 2014 at RootsTech.org. These sessions are listed below.
The Handouts for the RootsTech sessions are already free to download.
If you are on Facebook or Twitter, watch for the hashtag #RootsTech and #RootsTechFR [French]. Even if you aren’t on Twitter, follow along and/or comment in the BCGS article just below here at bcgs.ca.
BCGS Editor M. Diane Rogers will be at the Conference. She’ll be posting information and updates from the Conference on both Facebook and Twitter [as: mdiane_rogers] and at her own blog, CanadaGenealogy, or, Jane’s Your Aunt.
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Many people will be in Salt Lake City early next week researching at the Family History Library. For example, DearMYRTLE will be broadcasting her regular Mondays with Myrt session from the Family History Library at 8 am Pacific Time..You can watch live or later on Google + or on YouTube.
Here’s the official RootsTech announcement about the streaming sessions and below is the list of sessions being offered to all.
Thursday, February 6
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Top 10 Things I Learned About My Family from My Couch by Tammy Hepps
1 p.m. to 2 p.m., FamilySearch Family Tree: What’s New and What’s Next by Ron Tanner
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Intro to DNA for Genealogists by James Rader
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Genealogy in the Cloud by Randy Hoffman
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sharing Your Family with Multimedia by Michael LeClerc
Friday, February 7
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Storytelling Super Powers: How to Come Off as Your Family’s Genealogy Hero by David Adelman
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Tweets, Links, Pins, and Posts: Break Down Genealogical Brick Walls with Social Media by Lisa Alzo
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.comby Crista Cowen
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Finding Family and Ancestors Outside the USA with New Technologies by Daniel Horowitz
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Do It Yourself Photo Restoration by Ancestry Insider
Saturday, February 8
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Become an iPad Power User by Lisa Louise Cooke
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Information Overload: Managing Online Searches and Their Results by D. Josh Taylor
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., A Beginner’s Guide to Going Paperless by Randy Whited
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History by Tom Taylor
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Five Ways to Do Genealogy in Your Sleep by Deborah Gamble
The photographs above are from RootsTech 2013 GeneaBloggers tour, courtesy of M. Diane Rogers.
