I was so excited to learn last Thursday that one of my speaking proposals for RootsTech 2020 was accepted! My talk is called “The Imperfect Genealogist” and it’s about not letting perfectionism get in the way of your genealogy research. I’ll talk about the areas of genealogy where good enough really is good enough and discuss some techniques for getting past perfectionistic tendencies.
The topic, of course, ties in with the podcast I co-host, Getting to Good Enough and I’m thrilled that I’ll have a few months to work on it. RootsTech 2020 will be held February 26-29, 2020 in Salt Lake City. Please let me know if you’re planning to attend!
I spoke at RootsTech 2017, on going paperless in your genealogy. But that time I had a fabulous co-presenter, Brooks Duncan of DocumentSnap. (Together, we created the Paperless Genealogy Guide.) Doing this solo is a thousand times more terrifying. But I think I’m up for the challenge.
I hope to see some readers there! Registration will open September 18 and I’ll be sure to remind you when it’s open!
Congratulations! I am so happy for you. As recovering perfectiost, it sounds like a great topic.
Thanks so much, Mary! I’d love to hear how, in the past, perfectionism might have interfered with your genealogy research. Feel free to comment here or send an email through the contact form. In fact, your comment is inspiring me to write a post soliciting that kind of input. Thanks for commenting!
Congratulations! I will be there. 🙂
Thanks, Linda! Glad to hear you’ll be there. We’ll have to meet up again!
Fantastic! Congratulations on the speaking slot. I’m missing my ‘dead people’ and learning about them. Hope to attend a RootsTech one of these days. Knock ’em dead (well, kinda 😉 )!
Thanks so much, Nydia!
Congratulations, Janine. Maybe we will see you here in Australia one day.
Wouldn’t that be nice? I spoke at an organisers’ conference in Brisbane ten years ago. I’d love to go back to Australia to speak. My brother and his family live there (in Brisbane and Melbourne). Perhaps I should look into genealogy conferences there. I hadn’t thought of it…thanks for the idea! (If you have any suggestions of genealogy conferences to look into, I’m all ears!)
Congratulations! I’ll be there to hear you!
Excellent! Perhaps we can arrange a little meetup of this blog’s readers.
Janine, many congratulations to you! I would love to go to RootsTech to hear your speech but, alas, funds do not permit. However, I will be at the very last FGS Conference next year in Kansas City. Maybe you can drive across our beautiful state and go to that conference so we can finally meet!
Christy, thanks for the congrats! I didn’t realize that next year’s FGS will be in KC (though I did see the news about its merger with NGS). I’ll try to attend!
I’m hoping to make it to KC for the FGS next year!
Janine, congrats on being selected. I’ll be attending RootsTech for the first time and am excited to know you’ll be speaking!
Congratulations on being selected. I love your topic. The way some speakers talk, you could spend a life time trying to document one item. At Roots Tech, I hope they do a pod cast on your talk.
Congratulation, Janine! That is so exciting! I wish I was going to be there for it.
On a separate subject, do you know anything about the STL Genealogy conference this year? I attended last year and heard you speak, but i haven’t heard that they are having one this year. I’m wondering as a former presenter if you’ve heard anything?
Kim, I haven’t heard anything about a St. Louis Genealogy Conference this year and by this time last year I’d been asked to speak. I just checked the website and it has the 2018 date on it. So my guess is they’re not having one this year.
That was my guess, too. I was hoping I was guessing wrong.