Rootstech Conference in February

The first week in February we drove to Salt Lake City to attend the Rootstech Conference.  Wonderful things happen when thousands of genealogists and technologists get together to discuss how technology can advance genealogy research!  It is fun to be in that atmosphere of working together to search out our ancestors.  Big names in technology were there including FamilySearch, of course, BrightSolid, Ancestory.com, Archives.com and Google.  Interestingly enough, Google has come up with several sites that have some connection with genealogy.  We've all used Google Maps but have we used it to find family?  Take a look at Google Images or News to find Ancestors.  I put in "cemetery, Anson, Texas" into the search bar of Images and up came a dozen photos of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Anson, Texas where my grandparents, great-grandparents and other relatives are buried.  This is one of them.

I then put in Waikato Hospital, Hamilton New Zealand and up came the hospital where Maria, Laura, Tanya and David were all born.  Also try out Google Books for some interesting information for Family History research.