I'm not at RootsTech 2024 in Salt Lake City (due to my health issues), but I had a full day watching virtually from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific time.
1) Here are the scheduled classes that I watched online:
7 a.m.: Fixing Sticky Problems in FamilySearch Family Tree, by Kathryn Grant. Excellent advice on how to fix erroneous merges.
8:30 a.m.: Who is My Ancestor? Tracing Individuals with Similar Names, by D. Joshua Taylor. We all have them!
10 a.m.: RootsTech2024 | General Session 1 | Henry Cho – Steve Rockwood, CristaCowan (Ancestry), Henry Cho. Rockwood showed the very emotional "Remember" video again. Crista highlighted recent new Ancestry features. Cho was funny, but the audience took awhile to laugh.
11:15 a.m.: GeneticGenealogy Turns 25: DNA Experts Tell Their Stories, Diahan Southard and 7 DNA Pioneers. An interesting review of genetic genealogy history by 8 experts.
12:30 p.m. : What’s New at Ancestry® in 2024, by Crista Cowan. More information about new Ancestry features.
2. p.m.: Innovation and Tech Forum 2024, by Jared Spataro (Microsoft), Jon Morrey (FamilySearch), Jonathan Gibson (Living History AI), Laryn Brown (Storied), Max Ejberowicz and Ariel Mathov (EmulateMe), Cameron Graham (Storii), and Hunter Cannon (Ancestry). Spataro was excellent with simple yet illuminating examples. Living History AI and EmulateMe are historical people telling their stories. Storii is a phone call system to record stories for future access by descendants. I wondered if EmulateMe would show my avatar video in their segment in the Innovation and Tech Forum. They didn't, but Ariel did mention my name!
3:30 p.m.: Climbing Your Branch of the FamilySearch Family Tree, by Alice Childs. Lots of useful information for folks using FSFT.
2) I also visited the online Expo Hall:
Everything there is text or video. I could not get the Chat to work with any vendor.
I watched the four Ancestry.com In-Booth Demos available (also on YouTube at this time):
* DNA Compare: A Powerful New Way to Win Arguments at Family Dinners with Kyle Miller & Sarah Taylor**. Compare traits, ethnicities, and communities with family and matches.
* Ancestry® and Beyond with Lisa Cook. Collection information, tree-building, story-telling, Newspapers, com, FindAGrave, and Fold3 information.
* Deeper Discoveries with New AncestryDNA® Match Tools with Kyle Miller & Team**. It appears that ProTools will include an enhanced Matches view (cM values of shared matches with a Match) and an indicator for matches with a triangulated segment. Will those enhanced features require a ProTools subscription?
* HowAI is Accelerating Discoveries at Ancestry® with Hunter Cannon. Digitizing records, preserving memories, sharing with others, more color buttons, ethnicity information, life story information, and research assistant.
3) I also noted that the number on Online sessions have increased to 200 total - with 38 On-Demand sessions added. Check them out. I added a number of them to My Playlist.
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