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Learn How to Find Descendants in Your Family Tree at the UGA Summit of Excellence

6/26/2021

Summit of Excellence 2021 | Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree | Diane Henriks

Do you need to break down some brick walls in your research? Would you like to find relatives you never knew about, locate living relatives for DNA testing, find or return family heirlooms, find out more about your medical genealogy, find living relatives to an unclaimed estate, and more? Come learn how to find descendants in your family tree!

UGA’s 50th Summit of Excellence is coming up in September, and I’ll be presenting “Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree”!

The Summit of Excellence is the Utah Genealogical Association’s annual virtual conference that provides premier genealogical education.

Register for UGA’s 50th Summit of Excellence and come hear “Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree”, under their methodology track!

Distinguished genealogical speakers will be giving presentations on a wide range of topics given over a four-day event, from September 15-18, 2021. On Wednesday, September 15th, they will have a "Getting Started Day". This day is FREE, and will be on beginning genealogy; it will include such topics as introduction to record types, beginning research methods, tools for online research, and more. Thursday, September 16th will include methodology, general records, and regional/ethnic specialties. On Friday, September 17th, there will be presentations on DNA, legal records, regional/ethnic specialties, and professional topics. Saturday, September 18th, topics will include technology, military records, and regional/ethnic specialties. The best thing about a virtual conference is that you can still attend sessions that you’ve missed, and you will have access to the digital recordings of the sessions for several months after!

Registration began April 24th, and ends on September 4th; you won’t want to miss out!

View the schedule here to see all the premier genealogical presentations being offered this year!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Conference Schedule

There will be speakers from Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Brigham Young University, the Board for Certification of Genealogists, the Family History Library, and more!

View the list of renowned speakers and read their bios here!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Presenters

Genealogy Jamboree 2021 Closing Update and Winners

6/13/2021

Genealogy Jamboree 2021 | Publishing Your Family History | Diane Henriks |
Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family

The live portion of Jamboree 2021 has come to an end, but all the 70 sessions of Genetic Genealogy and Genealogy Jamboree are available in the recorded library until Oct.10, 2021! You can choose your sessions (depending on your registration), and have until Oct. 10th to watch them, or watch any of the ones you’ve already watched, again!

You can still register for the 70 Jamboree sessions! Register here

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2 Hours of FREE Research with Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family, and all the winners of the fantastic prizes drawn from all the vendors in the Jamboree 2021 Exhibit Hall, such as Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeMaker, FamilyTreeDNA, the Southern California Genealogical Society and more! I used a spinner wheel to choose my winners out of the almost 100 entries for my prize, and of course as the days went by, and there were more entries, it made it more difficult to win. 😉

Congrats to...

6/4/21- Sharon Hall
6/5/21- Debra Geesner
6/6/21- Pamela Pressney
6/7/21- Cyndi Davis
6/8/21- Ramona Roller
6/9/21- Sara Martin
6/10/21- Lynnette Bates
6/11/21- Stephanie Liss
6/12/21- Linda Campbell
6/13/21- Sue Fitzpatrick

This was such fun, that I have decided to offer this prize again! Stay tuned to my blog, to see when I’ll be offering this prize, so you can enter for a chance to win!

Jamboree 2021 Daily Prize Winners of 2 Hours FREE Family History and Genealogy Research!

6/4/2021

Winners Announced Below

I will spin the wheel once each day before 2pm PT

Jamboree 2021 started today (6/4/21), with Genetic Genealogy! Genetic Genealogy will continue tomorrow (6/5/21), followed by JamboFREE classes on Monday (6/7/21) and Wednesday (6/9/21), then Genealogy Jamboree next Friday and Saturday!

The Virtual Exhibit Hall opened this morning, and will continue till next Sunday the 13th! Stop by my booth to get a special offer, or enter the daily prize drawing for 2 hours of FREE family history and genealogy research with Diane Henriks at Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family!

I will be adding the name of a new winner each day, to this blog post, who put in an entry for my prize through the Jamboree Exhibit Hall, until June 13th!

There is also still time to register for the conference at https://genealogyjamboree.com!

Check back each day to see the new winner for the day!

Congrats to...

6/4/21- Sharon Hall
6/5/21- Debra Geesner
6/6/21- Pamela Pressney
6/7/21- Cyndi Davis
6/8/21- Ramona Roller
6/9/21- Sara Martin
6/10/21- Lynnette Bates
6/11/21- Stephanie Liss
6/12/21- Linda Campbell
6/13/21- Sue Fitzpatrick

Genetic and Genealogy Jamboree 2021 Starts Next Weekend! :)

5/29/2021

Genealogy Jamboree 2021 | Publishing Your Family History | Diane Henriks

Jamboree 2021 starts next weekend! Do you want to attend a fantastic genealogy conference that’s been around for over 50 years, and has renowned speakers from all over the globe, such as speakers from Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, LivingDNA, FamilySearch, and more?! Then don’t forget to register for the SCGS Genetic Genealogy and Genealogy Jamboree!

They’ve extended the early bird pricing through Memorial Day weekend, so take advantage of the special offer now!

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

This year’s conferences will be held virtually, over 2 weekends, with some fun, free stuff in between! Genetic Genealogy Jamboree will be held on Friday June 4 and Saturday June 5, and Genealogy Jamboree will be held on Friday June 11 and Saturday June 12. On Monday June 7 and Wednesday June 9, there will be the JamboFREE portion of the conference, for FREE, special events that you can join!

There will be show specials and prizes drawn for products, services, DNA kits, videos and courses, books, and more!

Come visit my booth at the Jamboree Exhibit Hall for 25% off your first 2 hours of family history and genealogy research with Diane Henriks at Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family, and for attendees, I will be giving out daily prizes of 2 hours of FREE research!

To visit the Exhibit Hall for FREE, you just need an SCGS free account. Sign up with you name, email, and address (at least the city and state), and sign in to your account right before the event.

Register for the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree 2021, and come hear my presentation on “Publishing Your Family History”! My presentation will be available in the recorded library on Saturday June 12th.

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

For more info, click on any of the GREEN links above :)

Visit the FREE Genealogy Jamboree 2021 Exhibit Hall for Specials and Prizes!

5/8/2021

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Do you want a chance to get genealogical specials and prizes! Come visit the Jamboree Exhibit Hall booths for FREE at this year’s Genealogy Jamboree! The Exhibit Hall is FREE and open to the public during Jamboree, from Friday, June 4th till Sunday, June 13th!

Jamboree will be having a slew of exhibitors, including some big names such as Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and more, giving out show specials and prizes at Jamboree!

There will be show specials and prizes drawn for products, services, DNA kits, videos and courses, books, and more!

Come visit my booth at the Jamboree Exhibit Hall for 25% off your first 2 hours of family history and genealogy research with Diane Henriks at Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family, and for attendees, I will be giving out daily prizes of 2 hours of FREE research!

To visit the Exhibit Hall for FREE, you just need an SCGS free account. Sign up with you name, email, and address (at least the city and state), and sign in to your account right before the event.

Register for the Southern California Genealogical Society's Jamboree 2021, and come hear my presentation, "Publishing Your Family History", along with so many other wonderful DNA and Genealogy topics, from outstanding speakers in the field!

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 their'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 wasn't 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