Sunday, January 12, 2014

RootsTech2014 Who's going?

So, I am excited!  How about you?  This will be my third trip to one of the greatest events for Genealogists and Techie wannabes.  Each time I come back learning more of the Tech side to help with the genealogy.  It's always a great rush to rub elbows with all (over 4000 last year) these folks that think like me.

I'm hoping that some of the developers I met last year have fine tuned their products so I can actually use them.  I keep thinking of Map-N-Tour http://mapntour.com/ .  Last year they had a product that was promoting 3D genealogy with google earth.  Pretty cool.  It took one line and showed the earth with the pedigree linking to each location.  WONDERFUL!  I can't wait to use that to bring genealogy to the kids and have them be excited.

Each of the genealogy companies; Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FindMyPast, FamilySearch will also be there with the newest and best.  All with freebies too, maybe that will help you decide to attend also.  The vendors are all great, genealogists love the vendors. Facial recognition software was BIG last year, several companies all had something just a bit different, all those photos you have that you can't tell who those people are, well these can help you with that.  Vendors with books, programs to help you along.  DNA is also a big seller.  This is helping break down those brick wall we all come against in our search for ancestors.

Anyone going?  I'm hoping to catch up with you there.  Drop me a line............ Hope to see you there!