From September 6-8, 2019, MyHeritage will be hosting its annual user conference “MyHeritage Live!” It’s held at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in The Netherlands, and there will be a wide variety of classes, computer labs, and Q&A sessions across the three days.

We are honored to have the Chairman of The Family History Guide Association, James Tanner, speaking at the conference. Here are the two presentations James will be giving:

• Evaluating Your Smart Matches™ and Record
  Matches on MyHeritage
• Developing Your Own Research Plan on
  MyHeritage

You can download the full schedule for the conference here. James and his wife Ann will also be at a table for The Family History Guide, doing website demos and answering questions.

About James

James L. Tanner has spent over 34 years in genealogical research and is the avid Blogger of “Genealogy’s Star” and “Rejoice, and Be Exceeding Glad”. He spent eight years as a missionary at the Mesa, Arizona FamilySearch Library and is presently serving at the BYU Family History Library. James is a frequent presenter at family history expos and conferences around the U.S. and Canada.

James previously owned a retail computer business and an Apple Macintosh software company, and he is a professional photographer. He holds a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Utah, as well as a J.D. in Law from Arizona State University. He spent two years as an Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Army and 39 years as an Arizona trial attorney. James and his wife Ann have seven children and 33 grandchildren.