Sunday, May 16, 2010

Compilation of Articles on Four Recent Genealogy Conferences

Recently I attended the BYU Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference and the National Genealogical Society (NGS) Conference held in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah.  It was six wonderful days of conference that made me feel like I was in a Genealogy Disney World.  I loved every minute of it.

I have been collection articles by the local papers and others that are great reads on the conferences.  The four conferences held were:
  • BYU's Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy - Monday, April 26, and Tuesday, April 27
  • FamilySearch's Developers Conference for software developers - Tuesday, April 27
  • BYU's Family History Technology Workshop - Wednesday, April 28
  • The National Genealogical Society's annual conference - Wednesday, April 28, to Saturday, May 1.
Since a lot of the articles overlap I have decided to just give everyone the links broken down by the contributors.  Have a great time reading.

Mormon Times
Four genealogy conferences coming up – 23 Apr 2010
Highlights of National Genealogical Society conference – 26 Apr 2010
Ten new web services impact family history's future - 27 Apr 2010
Person pages are the wave of genealogy future – 27 Apr 2010
Digitizing family history treasures - 28 Apr 2010
Ellis Island records have problems - 28 Apr 2010
Genealogy, technology and the 'The Princess Bride' - 28 Apr 2010
Librarians Day launches family history gathering – 28 Apr 2010
Four family history techno-gizmos presented at BYU workshop - 29 Apr 2010
Church adding 300 million names to new online site – 29 Apr 2010
A bucket list for family history - 30 Apr 2010
Family connections help create ‘spirit of unity’ – 30 Apr 2010
‘Addicts’ revel in finding ancestry – 30 Apr 2010
Keeping the stuff you keep: preserving documents, photos - 1 May 2010
National Genealogical Society’s exhibition hall plenty lively – 1 May 2010
Research ancestors' historical context for meaning - 2 May 2010
Train up your voice recognition software – 4 May 2010
Digitization changes family history, but still need for non-digital – 5 May 2010
Finding women: the ultimate family history brick wall – 8 May 2010
Where do 300 million names come from? - 9 May 2010
Camp aims to get kids interested in family history - 11 May 2010

Deseret News
Highlights of U.S. genealogical society conference - 25 Apr 2010
Utah - the land of family history - 27 Apr 2010
Mormon church to add 300 million names this week to online genealogy pool - 28 Apr 2010
Mormon church's storied Granite Mountain vault opened for virtual tour - 28 Apr 2010
Salt Lake City Family History Conference: Family connections help create 'spirit of unity' - 29 Apr 2010
History is centered in the family, historian David McCullough says - 29 Apr 2010

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
FamilySearch Shares Plans to Digitize Billions of Records Stored at Granite Mountain Records Vault - 28 Apr 2010
"A Celebration of Family History" Delights Thousands of Genealogy Enthusiast - 30 Apr 2010

LDS Church News
Attracting the young through computerized genealogy – 26 Apr 2010
Family History, a week of conferences – 1 May 2010
A lot doing a little – 1 May 2010
Sharing the Joy – 4 May 2010
Preserving, sharing records of world – 8 May 2010

The Salt Lake Tribune
Sorenson Molecular hits genealogy milestone with 100,000 DNA samples – 28 Apr 2010
Family history specialists to converge on SLC – 30 Apr 2010
FamilySearch adds 300 million names – 30 Apr 2010

Standard-Examiner
Genealogy file moving to digital – 2 May 2010

BYU
FamilySearch 2010 and Beyond – 16 Apr 2010

KSL
Family history enthusiasts coming to Utah for national conference – 26 Apr 2010
LDS Church offers insight into how genealogy work is going digital – 28 Apr 2010

Other Blogs

Amie Jane Leavitt - A Family History Celebration – 30 Apr 2010
Circlemending - Music, Family History, and an Unforgettable Evening in Salt Lake - 29 Apr 2010

Genealogy Insider
A Celebration of Family History - 30 Apr 2010
WDYTYA? Recap: Spike Lee Episode - 1 May 2010

Genea-Musings
Genealogy Collaboration, Take Two – 30 Apr 2010
Randy’s NGS 2010 Conference Photos – Post 3 - 6 May 2010

Gramma's House
Our Treat Last Thursday Night - 2 May 2010
Granite Mountain Vaults Update - 4 May 2010

Granite Genealogy - Summary of NGS Conference in Salt Lake City - 5 May 2010

Legacy Family Tree NewsletterThe Granite Mountain Records Vault - take the virtual tour - 11 May 2010

Plano Consultants - FamilySearch Presentations at NGS Syllabi – 2 May 2010

The Ancestry Insider
A Celebration of Family History - 5 May 2010
Family Tree Maker Support For New FamilySearch – 6 May 2010


Software Press Releases




Eastman’s Online Genealogy News

Ancestry Press Release

See ya tomorrow, for tomorrow is always another genealogy day!

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