Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Favorite RootsTech 2025 Classes

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  'Twas the week of RootsTech 2025, and all through the house, the genealogists were checking their RootsTech schedule.  What classes did you absolutely love this week? 

2) Tell us about your favorite RootsTech 2025 classes in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

I summarized my first two days online attending RootsTech 2025 in:

• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2025 - Day 1 (Thursday, 6 March) Activities

• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2025 - Day 2 (Friday, 7 March) Activities

• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2025 - Day 3 (Saturday, 8 March) Activities

I absolutely loved CeCe Moore's class Telling Stories with DNA: Case Studies from PBS' Finding Your Roots. CeCe told stories about her genetic genealogy journey, Henry Louis Gates’ ancestry (finding his Gates 2^nd great-grandfather, fascinating!), and showed a Finding Your Roots segments about the results. If you like genetic genealogy, you have to watch this class!

In second place for me was the panel for the RootsTech Innovation and Tech Forum 2025 with:

• Steven Nielson, Director of Product Development of Adobe, spoke on Adobe Express (free), Lightroom, and Photoshop (image editor) with generative AI tools.
• Uri Gonen, Sr. VP of Product Management of MyHeritage, spoke about Smart Matches, Cousin Finder (NEW! Like Theory of Family Relativity without DNA).
• Laryn Brown, CEO of Storied, spoke about Storied Assistant (app that questions user and adds data to family tree); acquired Memory Lane to tell stories on app at nursing homes.
• Paul Allen, CEO of SOAR, spoke about the new FamilyScribe.ai (AI powered tool for audio/video stories).
• Charlie Green, CEO of Remento, spoke about easy to capture and preserve life stories – a Remento book from voice input to the mobile app. Recordings to transcripts to book; family memory hub broadcast to family members, into book, including recordings in person’s voice. See https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/expohall/remento.
• Hunter Cannon, Product Manager of Ancestry.com, spoke about AI tools to preserve and enhance family artifacts. Ancestry app has photo and document scanner, image transcript.

Third place:  Steve Little’s class on Learning to Use AI Tools: Taking Your Prompting Skills to the Next Level. He discussed the guiding principles for responsibly using AI for genealogy, the Jagged Frontier, using AI in routine genealogy work, and then use cases: transcribing audio and video files (Gemini); advanced voice assistant on the ChatGPT mobile app; custom prompts for ChatGPT4, Claude “Projects,” or Gemini “Gems;” Notebook LM; Interactive Environments (OpenAI “Canvas,” Anthropic “Artifacts”); Research Agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity).  I was surprised and honored to have my AI and Genealogy Compendium blog page highlighted during this class.

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