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Wednesday, Feb. 24

5)  Transcr ibed a probate record in  6)  Attended the FamilySearch RootsTech Ambassadors briefing on Zoom on Tuesday.  Worked in the "Relatives at RootsTech" app in preparation for RootsTech.  Added about 60 Friends to my list and checked the common ancestors. 7)  AncestryDNA added 138 new DNA matches this past week, with two new ThruLines, and  MyHeritage added 11 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  Added N...

   Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts. My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I dont list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do incl...

"Relatives at RootsTech" App at RootsTech Connect 2021 Now Online  The Relatives at RootsTech app on the FamilySearch website was activated on Friday for use by registrants for RootsTech Connect 2021.  You do have to sign into the FamilySearch website to utilize the app: As of 7 p.m. on Saturday night, 143,859 RootsTech registrants have over 25.3 million cousin connections.  It tells me that 6 persons named Seaver are included. 1)  After signing in, the page changes to tell me that I have ...

Deseret News Share this story Nick Vujicic, a world renowned motivational speaker from Australia who has no arms or legs, speaks to a filled Tabernacle audience at Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Sept. 13, 2009. Vujicic is one of 13 keynote speakers at this year’s RootsTech Connect on Feb. 25-27, 2021. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Discussing Nick Vujicic’s family history could whisk a person off to any number of countries and cultures. Vujicic’s parents are both from Serbia. Althoug...

RootsTech Connect 2021 - The Website Unveiled (On Video)  As a RootsTech Connect 2021 Ambassador I was privileged to participate in a Zoom discussion today with FamilySearch/Rootstech leaders and about 75 other Ambassadors.  The RootsTech leaders - Steve Rockwell, Paul Nauta and Jen Allen - walked us through the plans for the RootsTech Connect 2021 Conference to be held Live on 25 to 27 February 2021, and especially how the https://rootstech.org website will be used.  They said the website w...

Deseret News Share this story Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Organizers of this year’s RootsTech Connect believe having a free, virtual event during the COVID-19 pandemic will be a “game changer” of epic proportions. With the world’s largest family history conference less than a week away, Feb. 25-27, more than 315,000 participants from more than 200 countries and territories worldwide have registered with nearly 90% of those participating for the first time. That’s a dramatic incr...

   Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week: 1)  Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom with 28 attendees (iincluding 6 guests).   In the first hour, I shared about RootsTech, the new MyHeritage features, FamilySearch 2020 highlights, Ancestry management changes, the NGS 2021 conference, my second FOREVER box (even showed one home movie), and discussed the Genelaogical Proof Standar...

Latest from Mormon Land: How to teach anti-racism at church; ‘Graceland’ group to perform at RootsTech David Noyce © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Screengrab from BYUtv) Apostle Dallin H. Oaks addressed racism and Black lives matter at a Brigham Young University address on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. A Latter-day Saint civil rights attorney has incorporated Oaks speech into a lesson about anti-racism. The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in a...

2020′s ups and downs (File photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Latter-day Saints in the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrate their temple in the capital of Kinshasa. The plus side includes: • The announcement of 14 new Latter-day Saint temples, including the first such edifices in the United Arab Emirates (also the first in the Middle East), mainland China, Kiribati and Vanuatu. Utah, meanwhile, will be gaining a 24th and 25th temple, in Syracuse and Lindon....