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Have you watched your RootsTech 2021 content?

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The RootsTech 2022 virtual conference is only two weeks away! It will run March 3 to 5. If you’re not already registered (it’s free!), I encourage you to go to the RootsTech website and register. You’ll need a (free) FamilySearch account to do so.

I got an email yesterday reminding me that the conference is coming up soon and it made me realize that I’m running out of time to watch the content I bookmarked from last year’s conference. After logging in, I clicked on My Playlist and saw a whole bunch of great-looking sessions from 2021 that I haven’t yet watched.

On the RootsTech FAQ, I took note of this Q&A:

Are streaming sessions available for download?

Sorry, no, but they will stay up on our site until just before RootsTech 2022 so you can come back and watch again and again

That means I need to get busy watching if I don’t want to squander this great learning opportunity!

It looks to me like the information currently on the RootsTech website (except for the registration for 2022 and some of the FAQs) relate to the 2021 content. So it’s really easy to take advantage of the content while it’s there! (Soon, it will be replaced by the 2022 content.)

This year, I’m going to try hard to devote March 4 and 5 to watching RootsTech 2022 classes (I’m traveling on March 3) so I benefit immediately from all the classes and keynotes!

 

Free webinar on 1950 census prep

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It’s less than two months until the April 1 release of the 1950 census! I have not done as much preparing as I had hoped, so I was really excited to read that the Legacy FamilyTree webinar CensusGenie: Down to the Wire 1950 Census Prep is available for viewing free of charge through February 9. It’s presented by Cousin Russ and Myrt (Russ Worthington and Pat Richley-Erickson) of Dear Myrtle fame.

To access the webinar, just click on the link above. If you need a coupon code, use 1950census (valid through February 8).

The webinar helps us discover strategies for finding our ancestors on the 1950 census. I sure hope I can make the time to watch in the next few days!

Legacy Family Tree offering free one-day genealogy conference on Saturday

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I was pleased to see that Legacy Family Tree, which offers such a wide range of affordable genealogy webinars, is offering a free series of webinars this Saturday and they’re all about genealogy organizing!

You can read all about it here: Treat Yourself to a Genealogy Conference this Saturday.

This is the first in a series of monthly genealogy conferences that Legacy Family Tree intends to offer this year. Presenters at this Saturday’s conference (30 Jan 2022) are:

  • Teri E. Flack
  • Mary Hill
  • Cyndi Ingle (of Cyndi’s List fame)
  • Lisa Louise Cooke
  • Thomas MacEntee

Click on the link above to see the topics of the presentations. According to the notice linked above, “Each conference will include 5 pre-recorded classes (1 class is brand new, 4 classes are hand-selected and unlocked from the members-only webinar library).”

No registration is necessary. Just visit www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/Conference that day. The conference includes a free syllabus!

Learning to use Ancestry effectively

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Ancestry.com is my go-to website for my research. It’s typically my first stop when I’m looking for the answer to a research question. I’ve been using it with a lot of success for many years. As you may have noticed, they’ve recently changed the interface somewhat and I have to admit that’s thrown me for a bit of a loop.

So when I saw that Amy Johnson Crow was offering a workshop called All About Ancestry, I jumped at the chance to sign up. I took her similar workshop on Family Search last year and it was excellent. (Amy’s teaching style really clicks with the way I think. It’s not too slow or too fast…it’s just right.) One of the things I love about taking her workshops live is that she allows time for students to actually try out what she’s talking about on the website we’re learning about, using our own research questions.  And she leaves open plenty of time for questions.

Rather than signing up for the $99 four-part workshop, I decided to spring for her $270 Annual Pass. I’ll get the Ancestry workshop plus at least one other workshop and access to all the previous workshops, access to community forums, and a monthly members-only Q&A Zoom with Amy.

The All About Ancestry workshop starts next week. It will be held live at 6 pm central time on January 18, 20, 25 and 27, 2022.  Each session is recorded, so you can watch later it you’re not able to catch the live presentation. And you can listen to it repeatedly if you want to. The fee is $99. Learn more and register at Amy’s website.

If you sign up, let me know in the comments so I can look for you during the Zoom classes!