‘Genealogy’ Category

 

Genealogy, I am Doing It! Family History Collaboration Gets Easier for Researchers

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Salt Lake City, UT – I was genuinely amazed at what I saw during the 2nd Annual RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City that just concluded.

The Salt Palace was packed with wall to wall displays by the many companies providing software, computers, printers, scanners, mobile apps, research services, and all the many tools that make doing genealogy more fun than ever before. It was also packed with a combination of professional genealogists, amateur genealogists, and the many technical experts what want to help them all do it better than ever before.

There were far more classroom presentations than any one person could attend, but fortunately they were all presented live online, and archived for anyone to listen to at any time. The recordings and the syllabus of every presentation are available at http://www.RootsTech.org. » read more

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Mormon Youth Asked to Find Ancestors through Genealogy

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Salt Lake City, UT – Mormon children and teenagers were asked to get involved in family history research and genealogy during the world-wide conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the Saturday session.

Genealogy has been a rapidly growing hobby for many years, and includes many people who are not Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides free resources to people of all beliefs who wish to find their family history. Information about these resources, as well as tips for research can be found at www.FamilySearch.org, and more than 700,000 people visit the Family History Library to do research in person each year.

“Many of you may think family history work is to be performed primarily by older people. But I know of no age limit described in the scriptures or guidelines announced by Church leaders restricting this important service to mature adults,” advised Elder David A. Bednar, a members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. » read more

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