{"id":39444,"date":"2017-02-03T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=39444"},"modified":"2017-02-03T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:45:46","slug":"the-rootstech-2017-free-online-broadcast-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=39444","title":{"rendered":"The RootsTech 2017 Free Online Broadcast Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patty and I are heading to Salt Lake City Monday to participate in the annual RootsTech conference. For those of you who can’t make it, RootsTech is free live streaming 17 of the sessions. The following information is from RootsTech:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SALT LAKE CITY, UT (January 26, 2017)–Mark your calendars! RootsTech<\/a>, the massive family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 8-11, 2017, announced its free live online streaming schedule for 17 of its popular sessions including Jonathan and Drew Scott of HGTV’s Property Brothers<\/a>, Star Trek’s Levar Burton<\/a>, The Cake Boss<\/a>, Buddy Valastro, and the Genetic Genealogist<\/a>, CeCe Moore, Liz Wiseman<\/a>, and Steve Rockwood.. The live broadcasts online give those unable to attend in-person worldwide a sampling of the show’s marquee content. Interested viewers will be able to watch the select broadcasts live at RootsTech.org. <\/p>\n

“RootsTech 2017 offers over 200 sessions for those fortunate to attend in-person,” said Chad Schumacher, RootsTech marketing manager. “However, the select sessions we will live stream for free will expand the show’s reach significantly, giving many, many more the opportunity to participate remotely online in this world class conference.” In 2016, over 150,000 viewers watched the conference sessions streamed live online. Even more are expected in 2017. <\/p>\n

The streamed sessions will include the popular general sessions and a sampling of technology and family history presentations appealing to varied interests.<\/p>\n

RootsTech Streaming Schedule <\/strong><\/p>\n

Watch at RootsTech.org<\/a>. No registration is required to view the live streams. All times are in Mountain Standard Time (MST). The stream will automatically refresh at the beginning of each session (otherwise use the Refresh<\/strong> button on your browser).<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 8, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
\nInnovator Summit General Session
\nSteve Rockwood (CEO, FamilySearch)
\nLiz Wiseman (Author, Multipliers)<\/p>\n

10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
\nIndustry Trends and Outlook
\nCraig Bott and Guest Panel<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
\nInnovation – Best Practices and Applications
\nCydni Tetro<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 9, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
\nRootsTech General Session
\nSteve Rockwood
\nJonathan and Drew Scott (HGTV’s Property Brothers)<\/p>\n

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
\nGetting Started in Genealogy
\nKelli Bergheimer<\/p>\n

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
\nDNA: The Glue that Holds Families Together
\nDiahan Southard<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
\nDNA Matching on MyHeritage
\nDana Drutman<\/p>\n

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
\nJewish Genealogy: Where to Look and What\u2019s Available
\nLara Diamond<\/p>\n

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
\nFamily History is Anything but Boring
\nCrystal Farish and Rhonna Farrer<\/p>\n

Friday, February 10, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
\nRootsTech General Session
\nLevar Burton (Star Trek, RootsTech, Reading Rainbow)
\nSpecial Guest Panel<\/p>\n

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
\nRootsTech Innovator Showdown Finals<\/p>\n

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
\nMother’s, Daughters, Wives: Tracing Female Lines
\nJudy Russell (The Legal Genealogist)<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
\nCensational Census Strategies
\nMary Kircher Roddy<\/p>\n

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
\nBig 4: Comparing Ancestry, Findmypast, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage
\nSunny Morton<\/p>\n

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
\nCross the Atlantic with Religious Records
\nJen Baldwin<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 11, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
\nRootsTech General Session
\nCece Moore (The Genetic Genealogist)
\nBuddy Valastro (The Cake Boss)<\/p>\n

11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.
\nJournaling Principles that Work
\nSteve Reed<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
\nDon\u2019t Just Be a Searcher, Be a Researcher
\nCrista Cowan<\/p>\n

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
\nCreating Google Alerts for your Genealogy
\nKatherine R. Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patty and I are heading to Salt Lake City Monday to participate in the annual RootsTech conference. For those of you who can’t make it, RootsTech is free live streaming 17 of the sessions. The following information is from RootsTech: Continue reading The RootsTech 2017 Free Online Broadcast Schedule<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rootstech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39447,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions\/39447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}