RootsTech 2025 registration is now open! If you’re not familiar with it, RootsTech is exactly what it sounds like – a tech-focused genealogy conference, and next year it will take place March 6-8, 2025, in Salt Lake City (but there is an online option available).
You can register here (online or in-person):
https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/registration
Online Registration is free and gets you:
- 200+ new online sessions in over 26 languages
- Join keynote sessions live from the comfort of your own home
- Chat online with other attendees worldwide
In-Person Registration is $69-$99 USD depending on one-day or three-day passes, and gets you:
- 250+ exclusive sessions only available in SLC
- 120+ exhibitors/sponsors in the Expo Hall
- Early access to “industry innovations”.
You can see the full list of sessions here:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/schedule/preview
For instance, this talk on the Future of Genealogy by Jarrett Ross would be one I’m interested in:
New technology is constantly reshaping the genealogical World, and sometimes it can be difficult to keep pace with the latest developments. In this talk, Jarrett Ross will discuss the tools and technology being developed today and how they may have a big impact on the future of genealogy and genetic genealogy. This talk will give an overview of the various forms of AI, Facial Recognition Software, low SNP artifact testing, and other new and developing technologies.
There are half-a-dozen other sessions I intend on watching/reading up on that are focused on publishing a family history – that’s my next big goal is to start assembling a few books of family history (or at least PDFs I can pass around to family members). There’s also a lot of AI-stuff, and I won’t get into my thoughts on AI, but I will say that what is referred to as AI is something I think I can use to translate/transcribe a lot of documents I have, as well as search through some old newspapers that are not translated or translated very well (German-language, lots of hits and misses with 100+ year-old fonts and translations).
I will eventually make it out to RootsTech in-person! I’ve wanted to go for years – in some cases, you can see demos of new genealogy software, or new technologies coming to the various online services, etc.
In the meantime, here are a few more relevant links: