RootsTech, by the numbers

This is taken from RootsTech website, word for word, all credit to them.

RootsTech 2014 by the Numbers

• Over 9,000 registered attendees from 49 U.S. states, 6 Canadian provinces, and 31 countries.
• Estimated 15,0000+ views of live-streaming sessions on RootsTech.org.
• 100+ bloggers from Australia, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Hosted by FamilySearch, official sponsors included: Ancestry.com, findmypast, MyHeritage, Peoplefinders, Family Storytelling, BYUTV, Backblaze, Dell, Mocavo, Pictureline, Lexmark, Rootspoint, FGS, NGS, APG, NEHGS.
• Over 135 exhibitors and vendors with booths and displays in the Expo Hall.
• Nearly 4,000 youth ages 12–18 attended classes and activities at Family Discovery Day for Youth at RootsTech 2014.
• 93 percent of 2014 attendees said they would recommend attending RootsTech to a friend or colleague.
• 91 percent of attendees were very satisfied or satisfied with the value of the information given at RootsTech.
• 80 percent of 2014 attendees plan on attending RootsTech 2015.

RootsTech is getting ready for 2015!

RootsTech is getting ready for RootsTech 2015. Their website has been updated! (www.rootstech.org or you can just search RootsTech) It is great! They are also going to accept presentations soon. In five days! Only five! The website says when it is, and soon we can sign up! (It's going to be more like August, kind of soon). And the candy bar was not quite as cool as I wanted it to be. I'm going to perfect it this summer and make many wrappers. Well, my little sibling want me to do "school" with them now, gotta go,  time for  our genealogy object lesson.:)

The candy bar

I decided my CTE teacher thinks I'm crazy. We made buttons and I put ancestors on them. We made candy bars and mine is family search related, Dennis Brimhall is on the front with info about him on the inside. I put a pedigree and I'm pretty excited for the finished product. I will post a picture when I'm done. I want to make some for Ancestry, My Heritage, find my past and all the rest off those. I might make one for roots tech, in fact.....

Webinar

It has been a crazy week! I had to get stitches because I fell of my bike (okay, crashed it) and split open my chin. I still finished the triathlon though. I don't know if anyone saw the family history consultant broadcast 2 days ago, but it was pretty awesome. I loved the way they did their PowerPoint! The information was great to. I'll summarize the syllabus for you:

How do we spark interest and build enthusiasm for family history?

That is a really great question, I know many people who could do it but don't. They're just not excited.

Start with stories:

"Share an inspiring story about one of your ancestors. Ask others to share stories about their ancestors."

A great activity I just thought of, would be to have every one find a story about an ancestor and share it around a campfire.

Use the booklet:

Help others, particularly new members, complete the booklet My family: stories that bring us together.

Another idea I thought of, would be to give the primary children the booklet. My little brother loves it. He'll draw pictures of them and color it.

Transfer to tree:

Help others transfer information from the booklet to family tree and prepare family ordinance request forms.

Getting 11 year old involved in family names, would be a great way. I think for a personal progress I will see if I can teach the 11 year old activity girls how to find names.

Go to FamilySearch.org/MyFamily to:

• Order a booklet
• Transfer information form your booklet to Family Tree
• Learn how to use the Help others feature
• Use the help others feature to transfer information from someone else's booklet to Family Tree

My sorry attempt at a poem

My feelings

Sometimes I feel sad or blue, but soon I remember, those great

ancestors who carried on much better than you, they were better

than me, they went through more,

and then, I think that I can handle it more.

But soon after that I start to break down and 

have to take another look at their hardships.

It carries me on if I feel them near, I know that they 

were a teenager to. 

Take Ruby Nielson for instance, she did much more

her struggles abounded compared to mine. She had to pay for

a room close to her high school. There was no bus for her.

her whole family got sick, including her. Someone

had to take care of all them. 

She couldn't go to college as she and her folks were

to poor. She got a job and Fonnsbeck's Kniting Factory

She finally could go, yet she still had to work while doing her homework

mine must not be that bad. The Great Depression ran its

course picking up Ruby on the way. They were poor and had bad

hours for working on that railroad.

On October 1931 they had to care for a youngin' to! 

she had no peaceful nights. In 1932 they had to say goodbye

to their mother to. Their father, well he was gone in 10 months.

They were left with little Blaine born in 1931. In 1935 they had to care for Milo to.

He brought every hardship and trouble to. He was sick 

and often disrupted everything, and soon he was fine.

The worst year by far was 1943, her husband got shot 

down by asthma that won't go a way. Multiple times everyday,

he would almost die. He would choke and choke until

the fit passed him by. 

With faithful friends who prayed for him

his heath began to improve. In November he 

got a job, but 2 weeks later got bad with a 

cold. That nasty cold turned into pleurisy pneumonia

and his pain was so much, and went on for 2 years.

Then this faithful lady, said "Lord, if you don't

want him to live, please let him die for all this 

suffering is to much" She loved this man

with all her heart, so much that she wanted

him to die if it would help.

He died in 1970, congestive heart failure is what it was

and as for dear, Ruby who I've learned so much from,

she died in 1983.

I found out just now that she was a genealogist to,

I wonder if she also turned to her ancestors,

just to survive.

After learning all about her life,
I know that I can survive. For
she did much more and was
fine.

Trying to get into presentations at Roots Tech

I was talking to my mom in the car the other day and Roots Tech came up. She said "I know there calling for presentations already!" I can't remember the details of the whole conversation but I told her I had considered trying to get a class, but had decided against the whole thing because I was 12. She said that they might let me! So last night I sent an email seeing if there was and age limit. I'm not sure yet, but I started on a power point. And who knows? I would either do a class on how to get the younger generation started, or a lab class on indexing.(I'm not sure how those lab classes work) So if you see, my class please come and join it. Well, if I do get in I'll probably write another post to get it out of my system. I also need to talk it over with my parents, see what they think if there okay with it, etc.

And if I'm not posting a whole lot, it might be because I'm working on the power point, and a ton of end of year testing. This summer will be a ton better with posting.    

The RootsTech motto

Sources:
http://dictionary.reference.com


The RootsTech motto has more meaning then you would think. Their motto is Connect your family - Past, Present, and Future!

So lets break it down:

Connect your family:
What is connecting your family?
Some would say family time, others would say making a bond.

Dictionary definition:
Connect: "to unite or bind"
Family: "all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor

Past:
What is the past:
The past (in my opinion) is anything not in the present moment or time, so for example, exactly .01 seconded a go would be the past.

Dictionary definition:
Past: "gone by or elapsed in time"

Present:
The present is what is currently happening.

Dictionary definition:
Present: "immediate or current"

Future:
The future is what will happen for example RootsTech will happen in 2015

Dictionary definition:
"time that is to be or come hereafter"


So if you put it together you get:

To unite or bind all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor - gone by or elapsed in time, immediate or current, time that is to be or come hereafter.

It is kind of weird, but the first one works, and actually sounds nice, The Past, Present, and Future parts are somewhat messed up with the dictionary definitions.