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February 15, 2025

Three more keynote speakers for RootsTech

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech RootsTech.org announces three additional keynote speakers from around the world. Quoting from the announcement: Ysabelle Cuevas Philippines born singer and songwriter Ysabelle Cuevas got her start releasing covers of popular songs on YouTube. Since 2016, her work has amassed over 700 Million streams, with her biggest release...

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February 3, 2025

Maribel Medina’s RootsTech Classes

Maribel Medina is one of the rising stars in family history education, particularly for Latino audiences and research in Spanish. She has taught numerous Zoom sessions on learning FamilySearch and The Family History Guide, and she is one of the interviewees in the upcoming Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid TV series on genealogy that features The Family History Guide. Maribel will...

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December 7, 2024

The RootsTech Booth 2025 for The Family History Guide Association

RootsTech 2025 is shaping up to be a super event next March, and The Family History Guide Association will be back again in the Exhibit Hall of the Salt Palace. Our booth space this year is our largest ever, and we’ll have website demos, classes, giveaways and games through the course of RootsTech. The map below shows our location in...

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November 18, 2024

Check Out the RootsTech 2025 Speakers

One of the great perks of RootsTech each year is getting to hear – or even meet – world class genealogists. RootsTech 2025 is no exception, with over 100 industry expert speakers set to enlighten us on a side variety of family history topics. Below is a quick list of the RootsTech speakers, and you can view the full list...

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November 18, 2024

Getting Ready for RootsTech

Although RootsTech 2025 is still over three months away, preparations have already begun for the big event. Registration has been open since September of this year, and speakers and exhibitors are preparing their materials in advance. The Family History Guide Association will have a spacious 30×30-foot booth close to the FamilySearch booth in the Exhibit Hall, with a seating area...

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September 9, 2024

RootsTech 2025 Registration Is Almost Here!

It’s hard to believe how the time has flown by, but on September 25 you can register for RootsTech 2025! Here’s a link to a FamilySearch blog post with the details: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/save-the-date-rootstech-2025 Here’s a fun trivia fact: The first person on the left in the blog post photo is none other than Maribel Medina, a great supporter of The...

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July 1, 2024

Miles Meyer to Present at the Society of Genealogists Conference

The Society of Genealogists, based in London, has announced its lineup of online presenters for July. We are excited to note that Miles Meyer, Director of Education for The Family History Guide, will be presenting on July 13. His topic is “Mining U.S. Census Records for Family History.” Here’s an overview of the presentation, from the Society of Genealogists website:...

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March 10, 2024

New: Links to RootsTech 2024 Videos

RootsTech 2024 wrapped up just over a week ago, but there are plenty of videos in the RootsTech On Demand Library to enjoy. We recently completed the addition of over 100 links in The Family History Guide to some of the best RootsTech videos that are currently online (we’ve been busy!) Here are some of the pages on the website...

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March 3, 2024

RootsTech 2024 Highlights for The Family History Guide Association

RootsTech 2024 has come to a close, and there were plenty of memories to go around – which definitely fits the RootsTech “Remember” theme. For the Management Team of the Family History Guide Association, it was a busy and rewarding time. Here’s a recap of classes and presentations that were given by our team: James Tanner, Chairman of the Board,...

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February 12, 2024

New: 2-Minute Demos

We’ve added a new item in the Trainers menu of The Family History Guide – 2-Minute Demos. At RootsTech, volunteers and staff for The Family History Guide Association have given thousands of demos of The Family History Guide website to visitors. Now we are unveiling a series of 2-Minute Demo scripts to help people show the site to friends, colleagues,...

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