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Y'all may not know this only I'm a music junkie – and I Dear Love Dearest the new RootsTech Connect song.

Delight listen here.

Doesn't this make you just desire to go up and dance? Get right alee.

I don't want to "out" anyone who doesn't wish to be known, but i of the extremely talented RootsTech team members wrote this song! He only might only be the person speaking in this short video! How cool is this!!! Talk about multi-talented. He'south an integral function of the team that brought yous RootsTech 2022. It's immature people like this that give me such promise.

RootsTech opened with a message from Steve Rockwood in this video. I recall it's a message we all demand to hear. Especially correct at present.

Steve is always and then inspirational. I met Steve in a state of affairs where pretty much everything had gone incorrect, years ago, and trust me, he is equally the man you see in this video. It'due south non an act.

I invite you to view the amazing Paula Madison keynote from 2016. I don't think I've ever seen a more moving, inspirational, or pronounced example of "connection."

What are you doing to #ChooseConnection today?

Sessions

The pre-recorded sessions are bachelor now and you can watch at will. In that location are hundreds to cull from.

In that location are still issues with the search functions and PlayList, but y'all will exist able to watch at your convenience at present or afterwards.

The live sessions are recorded and will exist uploaded afterward the live session. I know the upload goal was an hour or two, but in that location were technical gremlins that visited my session, and it's even so non uploaded. I'm not sure what will happen, just I'll record the session for uploading if need be. Don't worry, yous'll get to run across my session eventually if you lot couldn't join us live today.

Y'all can join me tomorrow, live at:

10 AM EST for Associating Autosomal Segments With Ancestors
two PM EST for What Can I DO With Ancestral Segments?

I'm compiling a list of DNA-related sessions and I'll publish that as before long as information technology's complete, probably near the end of the briefing then that I can include links to the live sessions that are being recorded and uploaded later.

MyHeritage Keynote

MyHeritage always has an interesting keynote and announces something big.

This year, they reviewed their accomplishments since RootsTech a year ago before announcing their newest feature. You lot can watch the keynote, here.

You know, information technology'southward e'er good to run across my friends from around the earth, fifty-fifty if it is virtual. We truly are a worldwide family. Hither's hoping that we can see each other later this year, in person, again.

Aaron Godfrey and Maya Lerner introduced LiveStory.

LiveStory

Deep Nostagia, announced final year at RootsTech has facilitated 65 one thousand thousand photograph animations.

Now, MyHeritage has gone even further.

Imagine what it would be like if your ancestor could tell you their own story. Well, now they can, at to the lowest degree somewhat.

MyHeritage introduced LiveStory today. Here's a demo.

Your ancestor tin tell their own story from their photograph using the information you've uploaded, entered, or saved from documents at MyHeritage. This link should have you to your Livestory page if you're a MyHeritage user.

I created a LiveStory for my grandfather.

I was curious to see if the "brothel ownership" from the newspaper records at MyHeritage got incorporated into his LifeStory.

Thankfully, no, especially since the OCR newspaper scan misread brother as brothel. Yea, I know, that'south what they all say, right😊. Brother. BrotheR. R.

However, even if it had included the brothel, I could have corrected or removed that juicy tidbit.

Yous tin customize data, select voices and languages likewise. My bully-gramps was born in the Netherlands, and then maybe I'll try this with him and "hear" him speak in Dutch. That would exist very interesting. For that affair, my maternal keen-great-grandparents were born in Frg, so I could select German for them.

This blog article tells yous everything you demand to know and leads you through the process.

My recommendation is to select someone as an experiment who you did Non know in real life. If you enjoy that feel, then movement on to people you knew.

I'm hopeful that family members volition upload photos of my ancestors that I don't know exist – and LifeStory is a wonderful incentive to practice but that.

Date Estimator for Historical Photos

MyHeritage announced that they will exist adding a appointment estimator for historical photos.

I NEED THIS!!!

Do you have photos that you could amend utilize if you lot only knew when they were taken? For example, you know that one candidate person was living elsewhere, or had passed abroad by a specific date, and then if you merely knew when the photo was taken, information technology would provide a HUGE clue about that person's identity.

I certainly accept some of those. Like this one, for example. Is this Barbara Drechsel (1848-1930)? Could it be someone else? When was information technology taken?

I tin can't wait to try this out every bit soon as it's available.

Found Families

Some of the virtually heartwarming stories are the found families. Merely get the Kleenex before you watch this keynote that includes ii of these incredible stories.

It'due south all the feels.

This reminds me so much of when I plant my brother, Dave, and so his sisters after Dave had passed.

Day 2 at RootsTech

Tomorrow is 24-hour interval 2 of 3. Are you ready with your agenda?

What did you watch today that you enjoyed and would recommend for others?

How are you connecting?

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