Rootstech 2021 Free Virtual Genealogy Conference Feb 25-27, 2021

I see Speaker Resources -- Keynote Speakers -- Merchandise -- Youth and Young Adults
Those are the only items I see under Virtual Event 2021

Where do I find the class list??

Lous,

https://www.rootstech.org/

For me I'm seeing a link to download the class list as a .pdf file.

The link is on the section of the page reading: "Hundreds of Amazing Sessions
Available Live and After RootsTech Connect"

To give just an idea of the variety of classes offered this year here is a list of classes for just Eastern Europe:

Accessing Records for Armenia Using the FamilySearch Catalog Camille Andrus, AG Eastern Europe
All-Russia Family Tree Родион Котельников Eastern Europe
An Overview of Metrical Books and Tax Lists for Armenia Camille Andrus, AG Eastern Europe
Conducting Research off the Beaten Track Janette M Silverman Eastern Europe
Introduction to Lithuanian Genealogy Angela Sinickas Shiromani Eastern Europe
Preserving the Records of East Europe: FamilySearch Efforts 2010–2021 Greg Nelson Eastern Europe
Researching Records of the Former Soviet Republics Greg Nelson Eastern Europe
Specifics of Genealogical Research in Russia Elena Burtseva Eastern Europe

And a similar list for Europe:

Title Creator Region
A Deep Dive into Norwegian Research Liv Marit Haakenstad, AG® Europe
A Wealth of Websites: Deciphering the German Script Made Easy Katherine Schober Europe
All My Ancestors Were English—Start-Up Guide Robert John Bristow Europe
An Introduction to Scandinavian Church Records Jenny Hansen Europe
An Introduction to Using Danish Gazetteers to Determine Jurisdictions
in Denmark FamilySearch Learning Center Europe
At Home with German Records: FamilySearch and Ancestry Daniel R. Jones Europe
Begin Your Journey with Italian Civil Registration Suzanne Russo Adams Europe
Beginning French Research for Non–French Speakers Amberly Beck Europe
Beginning Research in Luxembourg FamilySearch Learning Center Europe
Denmark Probate Records FamilySearch Learning Center Europe
Denmark Tax Records: 1660–1812 FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Discovering UK Records on Ancestry® Echo Odunze Europe
Doing Jewish Research in Poland Records Stanley Diamond Europe
Dutch Parish Registers from the 17th and 18th century John Boeren Europe
Dutch Research in the 19th and 20th Century: Civil Records John Boeren Europe
English Church Records Caroline Gurney, QG® Europe
English Equity Court Records Dr. Nick Barratt Europe
English Genealogy 101—Getting Started Online Simon Fowler Europe
English Genealogy 201—Two Genealogies Divided by a Common
Language Simon Fowler Europe
English Land Surveys Dr. Nick Barratt Europe
English Probate Records Pre-1858 Caroline Gurney, QG® Europe
English Sources for the Long 18th Century Else Churchill Europe
Finding Echeverria in Spain and France FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Finding Living Relatives in Austria Markus Schönherr Europe
Finding the Irish Cousins Who Stayed Behind Maurice Gleeson Europe
Finding Your German Ancestor Richard Lynn Walker Europe
Finding Your Unknown Soldier: Swedish General Muster Rolls Jeane Burton Europe
FreeBMD: What Is It and How to Use It Graham Hart Europe
FreeCEN: What Is It and How to Use It Graham Hart Europe
FreeREG: What Is It and How to Use It Graham Hart Europe
French Genealogy: The Archives Départementales are Free Online Lucie Drouin Europe
Getting Started with 19th-Century British Research Amy Harris Europe
Getting the Most out of Scottish Vital Records on ScotlandsPeople Alison Spring Europe
Girls Must Feed Pigs: Things Our Ancestors Thought and Said Darris G. Williams Europe
Hidden Treasures: Discovering Local Sources in Your Irish Research David Ryan Europe
How I Found My Crypto-Jewish Grandmothers Genie Milgrom Europe
How to Explain Family Relationships in Spanish Gonzalo Alexis Luengo
Orellana Europe
Intro to Reading Dutch Records FamilySearch Learning Center Europe
Is Everyone Here? Strategies for Finding Complete English Families Jana Greenhalgh Europe
Italian Catholic Parish Research Suzanne Russo Adams Europe
Looking for Your Irish Ancestors? It’s Easier Than You Think! Linda Hammond Europe
Manorial Records: How Can They Help My English Research? Celia Heritage Europe
Names in Belgium and the Netherlands FamilySearch Learning Center Europe
Navigating Patronymics in Scandinavian Research Jenny Hansen Europe
Nomen Omen: Italian Onomastic Habits before and after the Unification Vincenzo Alfano Europe
Norwegian Farm Books: Norway’s Special Research Tool Forrest Emmett Europe
Norwegian Patronymic Names Vs. Farm Names Dana Kelly Europe
Occupations: The Why, What, When, Where, and How Mia (Amelia Katharyn)
Bennett Europe
Onsite Research and Offline Sources in Vienna, Austria Markus Schönherr Europe
Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Researching Your Greek Ancestors Kathleen Kaldis Europe
Patronymics: The Cause of Common Surnames in Wales Darris G. Williams Europe
Preservation and Access at the Danish National Archives Ole Magnus Mølbak
Andersen Europe
Records Analysis: Church Records of Protestant Europe Jenny Hansen Europe
Records Analysis: English Civil Registration Records Jana Greenhalgh Europe
Research Finns in Your Jammies! Finnish Not Needed (Internet Is) Diane L. Richard Europe
Researching English Workhouse Records Sylvia Valentine Europe
Researching Online in Yorkshire, England’s Largest Historic County Jackie Depelle Europe
Search for Your French Protestant Ancestors Sophie Boudarel Europe
Searching for Children in Care in England Sylvia Valentine Europe
Seven Things You Need to Know about German Church Records Katherine Schober Europe
Shortcuts to Success: Solving English Genealogical Conundrums Else Churchill Europe
SoG Talks—English Education Records for Family Historians Else Churchill Europe
Success with 17th-Century English Genealogy Else Churchill Europe
Surname Slipups: Baffling Beginnings Carol Baxter Europe
Swedish Research 101 Savannah Larson Europe
Swiss Census Records FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Swiss Court Records FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
The Alps in Digital: Swiss Records Online Daniel R. Jones Europe
The Hidden Secrets of the 1939 England and Wales National Register Linda Hammond Europe
The Long Juju: Searching for Descendants of People My Family Enslaved Keme Nzerem; Bernice
Alexander Bennett Europe
The Riches of the Scottish Kirk Session Records Alison Spring Europe
The What, When, Where, How, and Why Guide to English Census Records Dave Annal Europe
Tracing Polish Ancestors in the Austro-Hungarian Empire David Ouimette Europe
Tracing the Poor and Destitute Irish Brian Donovan Europe
Tracing your Scottish Ancestors: Beyond the Basics Myko Clelland Europe
Turning the Pages of British Newspapers Simon Fowler Europe
Title Creator Region
Understanding FamilySearch Records of the Polish Partitions Greg Nelson Europe
Use ArkivDigital to Discover Your Swedish Roots! Kathy Meade Europe
Useful Tools for Finding German Ancestors Dana Palmer Europe
Using Danish Gazetteers to Determine Jurisdictions in Denmark:
FamilySearch Research Wiki Case Study
FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Using Danish Gazetteers to Determine Jurisdictions in Denmark:
Introduction
FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Using Danish Gazetteers to Determine Jurisdictions in Denmark:
Krabsens Stednavnebase
FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Using Danish Gazetteers to Determine Jurisdictions in Denmark:
Krabsens Stednavnebase Case Study
FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe
Using Findmypast to Unlock Your Irish Family History Brian Donovan Europe
Using French Church Records Kari Meyer Europe
Were Your Ancestors Moravian? Lynn Broderick Europe
Where Have All The Registers Gone? Dave Annal Europe
WieWasWie: Past the Index—What to Do Next FamilySearch Learning
Center Europe

Here is a link to the geni in the rootstech virtual expo hall:

https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/expohall/geni

I do not have a Tree at FamilySearch and do not want one. I do have a free account there so I can access the records.

I signed up for the Rootstech conference at the email I use for Geni, not the one I use for my free FamilySearch Account.

So - am I going to be able to access the Conference or ??

You should have access. Here's the link to everything that is going on:

https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/

There are some keynote speakers scheduled tonight and the rest will occur through Saturday.

I've been watching pre-recorded classes for the last couple of hours so everything is up and running.

For those who don't also have a tree familysearch it just means that you won't be able to take advantage of the "relatives at rootstech" feature but you still have access to all of the presentations.

Over 500,000 people have signed up for the conference and currently I have family connections to over 33,000 of them. Of those 33,000 about 300 people are my 4th cousins or closer and I've already made contact with some new relatives I hadn't met before.

Randy, do you know if there's a way to watch classes after the fact, like recordings? I am working the Geni booth and may not be able to "attend" the ones I'm interested in, so I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to view them after the conference officially ends.

And thanks for promoting the Geni booth! :)

Those who think the whole point of Geni is Public Profiles might be surprised to know Mike chose to focus on the pluses of PRIVATE profiles:
"Discover how you can use Geni to connect with your living relatives by privately sharing photos, family tree profiles of living persons, and more!"

Yes, this particular session was focused on finding living relatives through Geni, so by definition it focused on private profiles. He also did an overview of privacy settings on Geni in general.

If anyone wants to see Mike's advice for using Geni to find living relatives, you can watch the 17-minute session at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/session/using-genis-...

He talks a bit about (public) Geni Projects, and there's also a nice, brief video from Jarrett Ross (112-1701-241-22) about using Projects at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/session/genealogy-pr...

The rootstech videos will all be online for the next year and free to access. So view them at anytime.

Several of the classes also have class notes that can be downloaded.

The banner on Geni leads to: "Geni can notify you of other Geni users attending RootsTech Connect 2021! Simply choose how you want to be notified and click the button labeled "Notify Me" and we'll do the rest."

The choices are Geni inbox (and email) or Text message
If I choose Geni Inbox

Will they list them all in one Geni-Message
Or will there be possibly hundreds of Geni messages each telling of one geni-user at rootstech or?

Private User, it will give you an initial batch (in one update), and then it will recheck every four hours as more people sign up. It's not a bad flood or anything.

DNA Test Upload to MyHeritage Advanced Features offer expires 2/28/2021

As part of Rootstech MyHeritage will let you upload your DNA test results that you tested from another company and upload it free to MyHeritage plus those who do so before this offer expires on 2/28/2021 receive all of MyHeritage's Advanced genealogy tools for free also.

https://www.myheritage.com/dna/upload?utm_source=partner_danielroot...

I should have said in the previous post that the upload of DNA test results before the offer expires mentioned above is for MyHeritage Advanced DNA features only and doesn't include other benefits of the site that require a separate subscription.

MyHeritage, which is the parent company of geni, has a fun and pretty amazing new feature called Deep Nostalgia. It uses facial recognition to extract the head/face of a still photograph that you upload and then after analyzing it it animates the head giving it slight movement including slight facial expression. The results are pretty cool. You can check it out here and upload a family photo of your own to try it out. It works with both color and black and white photos.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

Private User - Signed up for it about an hour ago. So far nothing.

Do they send a list of all Geni members registered for Rootstech, or all Geni members who signed up to be notified "of other Geni users attending RootsTech Connect 2021" or??

You might not get anything until the next update is run. They're spacing apart the updates by a few hours.

I believe it's the latter -- people who signed up for the pathfinder. My list has included a few familiar names, but it's mostly users who are new to me. Kinda nice!

I signed up assuming it was the former. Thought of the other possibility afterwards.

Still nothing.

Clicked on the banner again. Now what I see includes, under "Use the Geni Pathfinder to be notified of other Geni users who are also attending."
is
"You are registered to be notified of Geni relatives attending RootsTech Connect 2021. You may update your notification settings below, or turn off all notifications to unregister from this event."
And down the bottom
"Relatives attending RootsTech Connect 2021:
No results found. We will notify you if we find new relatives."

1) How come they said to be notified of other Geni Users attending, but now they are telling me only about relatives, not geni users?
2) Why no geni-message sent, I had to think to click on the banner
3) For others, is it also only relatives, or?

4) What notification settings are they referring to?