My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has an assignment for us tonight: What have you done at RootsTech 2024 so far (we're on the third day), either in-person or online?  What have been the highlights for you so far? Here's mine: I am one of those #NotAtRootsTech. I chose to stay home and view some of the presentations online.  Thursday, I viewed the following: “Where did you find that? Effective searches on FamilySearch.org.” This was given by Debbie Gurtler, who works for FamilySearch. She showed all the ways to search on the website and had great tips on searching, understanding the results page, and filtering the results. “Digging into Finding Aids: The Road Map to Any Manuscript Collection” by Melissa Barker, who is an archivist in Tennessee. She gave details on the parts of a finding aid and the handout included a sample. She then covered all the kinds of repositorie...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has our assignment today:  1)  Are you going to RootsTech 2024 (29 February to 2 March) in person in Salt Lake City?  Or are you going to experience RootsTech 2024 virtually, watching online from home as it occurs, or watching it after the event? 2)  What events in Salt Lake City are you looking forward to attending?  What events are you going to watch virtually?  What classes do you want to see from each day?  The RootsTech 2024 schedule - both in-person and online - is available at   https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/schedule .  Note that not all the in-person classes can be viewed online.  Here's mine: I am not attending RootsTech in person this year. I went last year but spent most of the time either in the exhibit hall or at the FamilySearch Library. I worked at...