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The Daily Universe Computer science professor Mark Clement and his students work on handwriting recognition to help with their work in the Family History Technology Lab. (BYU Photo/Rebekah Baker) Mark Clement, manager of the Family History Technology Lab and computer science professor, said users can create custom groups of people and find out how everyone in the group is related with this application. “The big thing is connecting people,” Clement said. “Helping them to feel the Spirit of Elijah and then help them be motivated to do other family history.” Users sign in with the...

Randy and Friends at RootsTech 2012 in Salt Lake City -- Post 658 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday    I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs: This photo is from my first RootsTech Conference in 2012.  I think someone at the conference took this photo and sent it to me. This was the morning of the Saturday session.  Russ Worthington, myself, Pat Richley-Erickson and Gordon Erickson were in the front row right in front of the big stage in Hall H of the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.  I think this is the last time we got to sit in the front row!