SNGF -- Your Favorite Online Class at RootsTech 2026

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 

1)  RootsTech 2026 just finished today.  Did you watch any classes online?  

2)  Which online class was your favorite, perhaps the most informative, most helpful, or most entertaining, for you?  

Here's mine:
I viewed 6+ sessions at #NotAtRootsTech2026, watching the online presentations live. I attended the conference in person last year, but arrived home from vacation only a day before the conference started. I wasn’t ready to hop on a plane yet.

Angela McGhie hit a homerun with her presentation “The GPS in Practice: Examples of Reasonably Exhaustive Research,” held first thing on Thursday morning. Her handout has two checklists: one showing what constitutes reasonably exhaustive research, and the other a list of records to consider when doing reasonably exhaustive research.

The most entertaining presentation was “What’s New at Ancestry” with Crista Cowan. She tells stories, jokes, and give great information about features at Ancestry.com and Fold3.com.

The most useful presentation was David Ouimette’s “FamilySearch Full-text Search: Your Golden Path to Ancestral Discovery.” He went through the various ways of using Full-text Search, from the main menu, from Simple Search in Labs, from the catalog, and from All-Collections Search on the homepage. I have been consistently using only the Full-text Search tab. I need to try out these other ways. Also, I’ve only used “keyword search” and he had ways of using both.

I would also recommend Julia A. Anderson’s presentation on “Reclaiming the Past: Analyzing Southern Claims Commission Files for Genealogical Research” if you have Southern ancestors who may have been loyal to the Union.

I have seen other bloggers recommend sessions and I will check them out in the future.

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