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#RootTech: It’s Sunday morning on the 5:55 a.m flight out of Salt Lake City to Minneapolis. There are a number of other RootsTech attendees on this flight as I overheard some conversations including the words genealogy and FamilySearch. I’m blogging from the plane and I’ll publish this post in between ...

Last day at #RootsTech. It started with Tim Sullivan and his Ancestry.com panel of vice-presidents. This was live-streamed and well documented by others so I won’t go into the details, but I have a few observations. Tim seemed to be a bit disappointed that FamilySearch’s conference was one of the biggest ...

As good as yesterday was, today was even better at #RootsTech. I didn’t expect much from the Keynote speaker Josh Coates. He was to talk about cloud computing. But from the moment he made his somewhat preemptive entrance, he was enthralling. The humor and the manner of his presentation was perfect. I’d ...

The first real day at #RootsTech and it was chock full of stuff. So this will be a somewhat longer post. The day started with the Keynote by Jay Verkler. I won’t talk about what he said because it was all live streamed, so those of you who are interested can see it. But I should say I was much more impressed ...

I’m now in Salt Lake City for #RootsTech 2012. The city is flat but there are beautiful mountains surrounding it and d’ere’s snow in d’em d’ere hills. But no snow in the city. The downtown streets are all very wide – 3 to 4 lanes each plus a parking lane – sometimes with diagonal parking - and the ...

My sessions are planned and my notes are all organized in my one tidy black binder. My bags are all packed. Last check of all the feeds I follow and one look around the web for any latest news about RootsTech. Copied all my necessary stuff onto the laptop and I think I’m ready to go. Check the weather. ...

RootsTech chose the six finalists to their Developer Challenge. Behold was not one of the top six. The email stating the finalists was a private email to the entrants, and since I see that RootsTech has not yet published them, I don’t think I’m entitled to name them here. I’m disappointed. I’m ...

I’ve already got a very busy schedule planned for RootsTech. There are a lot of people I’ll be looking for and will be trying to meet. Sometimes it’s very difficult to find the person you’re looking for among 3,000 people. So I at least am going to make it easier for those who want to find me, to find ...

Whenever I go to a conference, I always first review the schedule and then make a tentative plan of what I'll see. Then, often there is an added bonus, and just before the conference, a syllabus comes out with more detailed information about each session. RootsTech did it right, and they have published an ...

I have now been confirmed as a panelist for the Friday Feb 3rd discussion panel at RootsTech. It will be at 4:15 p.m. in Room 257 and will be about "Sources, Citations, Meta Data". The moderator and audience will ask "intriguing" questions of myself and the other panelists. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ...