{"id":1594,"date":"2021-02-25T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2023-02-18T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T16:47:31","slug":"rootstech-is-remarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"RootsTech is REMARKABLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RootsTechRelatives.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>My RootsTech Relatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you aren&#8217;t on rootsTech today you are missing some awesome genealogy stuff.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too late to participate &#8211; it&#8217;s free &#8211; just go here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rootstech.org\/rootstech-connect-2021-registration?lang=eng\">register.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what has impressed me the most so far and it only just began:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FAMILYSEARCH.ORG &#8211; my thanks for pulling this off virtually without a hitch.  Maybe there was a hitch on your end but it was seamless on ours.  I absolutely LOVE the interactive RootsTech relatives feature and found a 4th cousin once removed living very close to me.  Didn&#8217;t know she even existed!  Using the Send a Message feature I made an attempt at connecting.  Maybe if I ever get the covid vaccine we can meet.  The map feature of where my people are is shown above and I think it&#8217;s just wonderful.  Proves I&#8217;m a mutt without research, doesn&#8217;t it?!  Actually looks very similar to my ethnicity results from Ancestry\/MyHeritage\/23andMe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My FAVORITE research session so far has been from Goldie May&#8217;s Richard K. Miller on  How to create Google Chrome shortcuts for Faster Genealogy Research.  More info is available on their website so check this out <a href=\"http:\/\/goldie-may.com\/search_engines\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My FAVORITE AH HA session has been How to Make Rooibos Tea by Sarah Wing from South Africa.  Funny but I brewed a cup right before the Expo Hall opened last evening so I thought I would enjoy the video but I was shocked to learn that a small strainer I inherited from my grandmother is a tea strainer.  Duh, she used it to drain liquid from kidney beans so that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve used it for over 50 years.  I got so excited to learn what the kitchen device is really supposed to be used for I sent out an email to my family who would remember how it was used.  Nothing like making connections over the simplicity of everyday living!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which gets me to the next part of RootsTech I find interesting &#8211; I signed up for the 21 day Family Connections Experiment.  What a brilliant idea, especially now with our world turned upside down for so many reasons.  Learn more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/connections-experiment.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CREEPY BUT COOL tech toy is from MyHeritage &#8211; Deep Nostalgia.  I can&#8217;t wait to try it!  Take a photo and it animates it.  You have got to check into this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another CREEPY BUT COOL tech device is from Audiobiography which has designed a product that can be placed on a tombstone or family heirloom and using an ap on your phone, the bar code will be read and you can learn more about the person\/item via audio or text.  Pricing was reasonable, too.  Learn more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/audiobiography.com\/product\/memorial \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s much much more but those were the items that were most interesting to me so far.  Two more days to go so don&#8217;t miss out &#8211; check it out now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aren&#8217;t on rootsTech today you are missing some awesome genealogy stuff. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s too late to participate &#8211; it&#8217;s free &#8211; just go here to register. This is what has impressed me the most so far and it only just began: FAMILYSEARCH.ORG &#8211; my thanks for pulling this off virtually without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RootsTech is REMARKABLE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}