RootsTech Innovator Showdown with $100,000 in Prizes!

The following announcement is from RootsTech: FamilySearch International is looking for the next big social and mobile application that will influence not only an industry worth billions, but also generations of families—past, present, and future! Held in conjunction with RootsTech, Continue reading RootsTech Innovator Showdown with $100,000 in Prizes!

A Sweetheart of a deal… #RootsTech #Genealogy

A Sweetheart of a deal… As I’ve written during the RootsTech conference, I’ve been hanging around the MyHeritage booth absorbing information. MyHeritage has been making exciting technological advances for several years. Their tech is allowing them to share billions of Continue reading A Sweetheart of a deal… #RootsTech #Genealogy

StoryWorth Wins the RootsTech 2015 Innovator Showdown

The following news release is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY (February 13, 2015) – StoryWorth, a San Francisco start up company that offers an email-based storytelling service, today swept the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, winning both first prize and the People’s Continue reading StoryWorth Wins the RootsTech 2015 Innovator Showdown

The BYU Family History Technology Workshop February 10, 2014

Now that I know that I’ve survived the “2015-extraordinary-flu,” and I will be attending RootsTech, FGS, and the Innovator Summit, I’ve added the BYU Family History Technology Workshop to my schedule. It will be held at the conference center on Continue reading The BYU Family History Technology Workshop February 10, 2014

My Family History Toolbox: An Illustrated Guide to Cutting Edge Technology to Help You Discover Your Family Tree and Story, Second Edition

If you have ever looked through Crash Course in Family History or any other of Paul Larsen’s books, then you are probably aware of how colorful easy to follow his books are. Keeping with his unique style, Larsen has just Continue reading My Family History Toolbox: An Illustrated Guide to Cutting Edge Technology to Help You Discover Your Family Tree and Story, Second Edition

Hack Genealogy: A New Genealogy and Technology Resource

The following news release was received from Thomas MacEntee: HACK GENEALOGY: A NEW GENEALOGY ANd TECHNOLOGy RESOURCE Repurposing today’s technology for tomorrow’s genealogy 17 July 2013 – Chicago, IL. Genealogy educator and author Thomas MacEntee announces the debut of Hack Continue reading Hack Genealogy: A New Genealogy and Technology Resource

Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos

Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos is just one webinar presented by Legacy’s own Geoff Rasmussen. With this video, the viewer can watch again and again, repeating the entire seminar or just those parts for which they need Continue reading Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos

Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos

Even though some technologies may become widely used, changes in those technologies require constant learning and adaptation. Sometimes, people just don’t need a certain technology when it becomes available, but later find a use for it. For others, we sometimes Continue reading Digital Images: Scanning, Editing, and Preserving Your Photos