Perhaps one of the most overlooked areas of doing family history are the love stories of the couples who build the family. Every couple has a love story. Historians caution us that couples of the past did not always marry for love. Some married out of necessity and others married because of cultural traditions of […]
The final day of Rootstech is known as Family Discovery Day — a day when the Church sponsors the event for youth and families. I was able to get two of my daughters to come for a visit. The effort is obvious. The more we engage our youth in family history they more inclined they […]
Today was another inspiring day at Rootstech. The best featured keynote of today’s conference agenda was Daniel Isay of StoryCorps. You might recall a posting we made on our Facebook page about them around Thanksgiving. At that time they were driving an initiative to get kids to record talking to their grandparents about their memories. […]
It was an emotional day for me at Rootstech. One filled with inspiration. Things kicked off with the keynote addresses of this first official day of the event. Two presentations stood out for me. Steven Rockwood, head honcho at Family Search talked about the need to focus on the stories instead of the data when […]
For several years now the Church History Library has teased me. Knowing what I know now about much of our 19th century family history I’ve wanted to go there to see what I could find out. Today, after registering for Rootstech, I had a few hours to kill before my first class. Now was the […]