Rootstech Family History & Technology Conference – Day 1.2

My Rootstech shirt!

Here is Charleen Mullenweg’s second post on her experience at the Rootstech Genealogy Conference. Read about her previous experiences here. After lunch Thursday, I headed for the expo floor.  We had to get a certain number of signatures from different booths in order to get the Rootstech t-shirts, so I headed down there to grab [...]

Rootstech Family History & Technology Conference – Day 1

My swag

I first heard about Rootstech late last year, and thought “Genealogy and technology! What’s not to love about this???” I must admit, my second thought was, “Maybe I can finally see that library!” I imagine something out of a fantasy painting with a wizened old man sitting at a cluttered table in front of bookshelves that stretch into infinity in every direction. I doubt its going to be like that, but I’ll let you know late Friday (or more likely, early Saturday) as that’s when I finally get to see it!

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