The RootsTech 2022 website is now live! That means you have just under a week to plan your RootsTech experience by creating a playlist of the classes you want to watch. You can also take note of the main stage speeches and mark them in your calendar if you want to watch them live.
While my 2021 playlist is gone, I was excited to discover that the 2021 talks are still available for viewing. You can find them by clicking on Sessions and scrolling down in the Filters area on the left side to “Year.” Select 2021 and you’ll see that there are 1767 talks available to view now.
You can also filter by topic, research location, speakers or other filters and then within those results filter by year. You can add both 2021 and 2022 classes to your playlist (or watch the 2021 classes now). I don’t know whether the 2021 classes will be still be available when RootsTech 2022 starts next week. As I mentioned in my post last week, I tend to think they’ll be removed.
For sessions that will be presented live, the time is listed for the session on the search result. My understanding is that the pre-recorded 2022 sessions will be made available when RootsTech starts, which is Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 9 am Central Standard Time (GMT -6). That’s 11:00 AM in Rio, 6:00 PM in London; 12:00 PM in Tokyo and 2:00 am [Thursday] in Sydney.
Look for download links for class syllabi at the bottom of each class listing. Based on my poking around, it looks to me like syllabi for 2022 classes won’t appear until the conference starts. But you can download syllabi for 2021 classes you’re interested in now.
The array of classes available is truly impressive. And I know it can feel overwhelming. Personally, I’ll get past that overwhelmed feeling by planning ahead and creating a playlist. While I know I can watch these classes for about a year, I’m going to try hard to take in RootsTech 2022 content while the conference is going on, so I can be part of the global experience and so I actually watch the classes. I found that I did not watch the 2021 content I intended to watch (though I did watch some last week!) and that disappoints me.
Once the conference starts, I’ll be eager to find my Relatives at Rootstech, visit the Virtual Expo Hall and check out the chatrooms for the classes I’m interested in.
If you have questions about RootsTech, the FAQ has lots of great information. You might find the post I wrote about the 2021 virtual conference helpful. I plan to write something similar once this year’s conference begins and I can check out the features.
If you haven’t registered yet, just go to www.rootstech.org and click on Register. It’s free and easy! Let me know in the conference whether you’re planning to attend. Who knows, we might find out we’re related!
Thank you for this update! I can’t wait to see the presentations. I hope to make a playlist this weekend and then shop for “conference food.” (Food I’d never buy for us here but I’d buy at a conference.)
“Conference food” cracks me up, Mary.
Janine, I do hope there is a way to see some of the 2021 sessions again. As I’m searching by topic, I’m seeing that what was of interest in 2021 is slightly different than 2022. This is only because of the information that I’ve found in the last year. I’m really going to have to make watching the Roots Tech sessions an important part of this upcoming year. Maybe make time one weekend morning and/or afternoon a month to watch the sessions?
I’ll be interested to see whether the 2021 sessions are going to still be available. If not, it’s an important lesson learned! I think having a schedule to watch them is a great idea. We’re about to start a new 30 x 30 challenge for March and I think I’m going to make my challenge be to watch at least one RootsTech session a day. That way I’ll least I’ll watch 30!