The first General Session, as always, started with Steve Rockwood, the CEO of FamilySearch International. His talk debuted a new stage layout, coming out into the audience. Steve introduced this year’s theme: Discover.
This is FamilySearch’s aspiration for everyone, and one thing you can do to facilitate this is to add what you do know to the FamilySearch Family Tree. This will allow others discover more about their ancestors.
Next, Ancestry’s Christa Cowan talked about the importance of a FAN club (Friends, Associates & Neighbours) in telling and understanding a person’s life. Not only does this paint a fuller picture of their life, but studying the people in a community can help break through brick walls.
With Ancestry networks you can now document relationships beyond immediate family, including complicated connections like enslavement. Ancestry will include tools to help you group people by community, shared experience, place or time. More sessions on this new feature will take place during the conference. These networks will allow you to tell the WHOLE story of a person’s life.
Unfortunately keynote Rachel Platten, singer songwriter, couldn’t be there in person, but she did attend by video. She talked about her struggle with herself and about her family, and sang one of her songs, “Girls”.
It's not too late to watch the wonderful talks and see the expo hall. Just go to https://rootstech.org.
DISCLOSURE: I am a RootsTech 2025 conference Media Rep and in return for my promotion of the conference I receive a free entry pass and some additional non-monetary perks. My transportation and accommodation are not compensated.
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