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Learn How to Publish Your Own Family History at Genealogy Jamboree 2021!

4/11/2021

Publishing Your Family History
Genealogy Jamboree 2021 | Publishing Your Family History | Diane Henriks

Have you thought about sharing your family history with others to preserve for future generations? Come learn about publishing your family history at this year's Genealogy Jamboree!

Jamboree is the largest "single society" conference in the U.S., and draws family historians and professional genealogists from all over the world!

Register for the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree 2021, and come hear "Publishing Your Family History"!

The 51st Jamboree conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 11-12, 2021, and the 8th Genetic Genealogy conference will be held on Friday and Saturday June 4-5, 2021. Usually held yearly at the Burbank Marriott in Burbank, CA, this year's conferences will be held virtually. The following presentation, "Publishing Your Family History" will be available in the recorded library starting Saturday June 12th. There will be so many wonderful speakers from all over, including
Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, FamilySearch.org, FamilyTreeDNA.com,
FindaGrave.com, National Geographic Genographic Project, and many more!

View the Schedule for Genetic Genealogy and Genealogy Jamboree here to see all the amazing presentations being offered this year!: Jamboree 2021 Schedule

RootsTech Connect 2021 Has Come to an End, or Has It? :)

3/1/2021

RootsTech Connect 2021, hosted by FamilySearch, has come to a close, but not really. Did you know that you can still access RootsTech? They were originally going to close up everything, but access to your Playlist, but have since changed that! Not only can you access everything in your playlist for a year, the sessions/classes and Expo Hall, but they are keeping chat available till the 4th, and you can still access RootsTech relatives as of right now! So, if you want to view any of the 1,000+ RootsTech Sessions, Keynote Speakers or the Expo Hall, they are all still available, and will continue to be available!

Did you know that you can also save the sessions/classes to your YouTube watch later list, if you think it may be easier to access your classes from YouTube as opposed to going onto the RootsTech platform again and again? Just go to the session pin you'd like to save, and click on it. From there, on the upper top right corner of the video, you'll see the watch later clock symbol, and just click it. Make sure you are logged into your YouTube account before clicking it, and once you click on it, it will be automatically added to your YouTube watch later list. :)

Did you know that RootsTech Connect 2021 was such a hit going virtual this year due to Covid, that they went from about 30,000 attendees last year to 1,000,000 this year, Amazing! This was the most fantastic event of the year!

They really outdid themselves with their virtual platform! Did you know that the most time spent on planning for RootsTech this year, after realizing they needed to go virtual to make it happen this year due to Covid, was for the platform they were going to use? It took them 2 months checking out different platform companies, before realizing that none of them had what they needed for an event such as there's, and determined they needed to build their own site for RootsTech! The site for RootsTech was awesome, it was beyond anything I could have imagined! When I first signed up, I thought it was going to be that awesome virtually, and would be most likely like all the other virtual experiences I had this past year, but boy was I wrong! Not only was the content what made RootsTech this year, but it was their platform that brought it all together and was striking, and made you feel like you were really part of an event! This definitely was the event of the year!

I absolutely loved everything about RootsTech, from ALL of the keynote speakers, the sessions, the RootsTech break sessions, the RootsTech relatives, the expo hall, to the chat and more, all of it was fantastic! All the keynote speakers were amazing, but my absolute faves, were the CEO, Steve Rockwood's keynote speech, Sharon Leslie Morgan's keynote speech, Astrid Tuminez's keynote speech, and Nick Vujicic's keynote speech, as those are the particular speeches and personal stories that resonated with me. My other absolute faves at RootsTech were the RootsTech session break videos, that were so thought and emotion provoking, and the Facebook Live Daily Wrap Ups with Ancestry.com's Crista Cowan, and chatting with RootsTech relatives!

I really hope that they keep this platform for next year ( I mean, they spent a lot of time and resources building it, and already have it, so why not?!) and decide doing both an in person event and virtual, then more people from around the world would be able to join, and they may be able to keep close to the amount of attendees they had this year!

So, if you missed the RootsTech Connect 2021 event, you can still view all the classes for FREE!

My RootsTech Connect 2021 Strategy! :)

2/25/2021

Okay, so this is my RootsTech strategy!

First thing I did last night, signed up for my FREE genealogy consultation for a brick wall, before they booked up :)
Spend the 3 days watching all the Keynote Speakers, and everything else on the Main page, as this will not be available after RootsTech :)
Spend the 3 days connecting with RootsTech Relatives who are also signed into RootsTech from ALL over the world, by seeing how they are related and screenshotting the relation for future reference, messaging some of the closer ones from the lines in other countries that I have no contact with, and friending some of my closest relatives...as of this moment, I have 20,429 RootsTech Relatives logged into RootsTech right now! :)
Check out EVERYTHING in the EXPO Hall, in case I have questions for vendors, while chatting with vendors is available, and download ALL the freebies! ;)
Listen to the 12 Finalist for the RootsTech Song Contest, and vote, and watch the results on the last day of RootsTech
Add my photo to the RootsTech Connect Family Photo, a virtual mosaic of all the attendees that you can see unfold over the course of RootsTech, then screenshot it :)
Join all the activities on the main page :)
Browse through ALL the Sessions, and save ALL the Sessions I'm interested in my Playlist, and don't feel rushed to focus on them right now, as they will be available for the WHOLE year!

and that's my strategy to get the most out of RootsTech, and hopefully not miss a thing! :)

RootsTech 2021 Sessions- More Than 800 FREE Genealogy Sessions !!!

2/21/2021

Hosted by FamilySearch.org, and a FREE 3 day event starting this Thursday...register now, so you don't miss out!

Check out all the FREE classes they are offering for this 3 day event!!!

It's your chance to learn everything you can about family history and genealogy, along with activities, famous keynote speakers, cultural events, cooking classes, yoga, a huge expo and more, all for FREE!!!

Register at: https://www.rootstech.org/?lang=eng

RootsTech Connect 2021- Free Genealogy Event

2/19/2021

One More Week Till the "Free" RootsTech Connect 2021 Family History Conference!

2/18/2021

RootsTech Connect is the largest family history conference in the world!

It is hosted by FamilySearch, and this year, due to Covid, it will be virtual and free! If you're interested in discovering family, and preserving your stories, this is an awesome event to attend, and you can't beat free! They have celebrity keynote speakers, beginner and advanced classes, interactive cultural activities, a giant expo hall, an opportunity to chat with experts, a virtual marketplace, and so much more! If you'd like to celebrate your family, discover and record your family stories, get connected with cool technology and services to help with your family history, learn tips and tricks that can help you find your family, and connect with family history experts, then you should definitely register for RootsTech!

RootsTech will be held this year Feb 25-27

Don't miss out! Start your family journey of discovery, join over 200,000 people, and reserve your spot now!
Register now

Genealogy Jamboree Blogspot: Monday Meet the Speakers- Jamboree 2021

2/1/2021

Genealogy Jamboree 2021 Monday Meet the Speakers is out. Every Monday they have a new blog post to meet 4 of the speakers of Jamboree 2021; this one includes me, along with other wonderful speakers! :)

You can follow the Monday Meet the Speakers- Jamboree 2021, and follow 4 more speakers each week here :)

Genealogy Jamboree 2021- Publishing Your Family History

1/17/2021

Publishing Your Family History

Genealogy Jamboree 2021 | Publishing Your Family History | Diane Henriks

Jamboree is the largest "single society" conference in the U.S., and draws family historians and professional genealogists from all over the world!

Register for the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree 2021, and come hear my presentation on Publishing Your Family History! My presentation will be held on Friday June 11th. There will be so many wonderful speakers from all over, including Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, FamilySearch.org, FamilyTreeDNA.com,
FindaGrave.com, National Geographic Genographic Project, and many more!

Registration begins January 11th 2021!

Meet the Speakers of Genealogy Jamboree 2021!

1/4/2021

Meet the speakers of the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree 2021 Conferences, with so many wonderful speakers from all over, including Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, FamilySearch.org, FamilyTreeDNA.com, FindaGrave.com, National Geographic Genographic Project, Myself, and many more!

Come Hear My Presentation, "Publishing Your Family History" at Jamboree 2021

1/2/2021

Diane Henriks Genealogy Jamboree 2021