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I love watching genealogy programs like “Finding Your Roots,” “Relative Race,” and “Who Do You Think You Are?” where guests “go on an emotional journey to trace their family tree
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogical Interest Group will be held via Zoom at 10 a.m. this Saturday. The focus of the meeting will be the ongoing RootsTech workshop presentations. RootsTech, a major global genealogical conference, was held online this year in February due to the pandemic. In its first week it attracted over 1 million visitors from 242 countries who viewed over 2,000 sessions. Although RootsTech Connect has ended, the conference lives on all year long, which means anyone can still watch the keynote sessions an...
Everyone’s trying Deep Nostalgia to bring old photos alive MyHeritage genealogy platform introduces a wildly popular made-in-Israel feature enabling users to animate faces from the past. Screenshot from MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia Only two weeks after online genealogy platform MyHeritage debuted its jaw-dropping Deep Nostalgia photo-animation feature, more than 43 million faces have come to life and a few thousand more photos are being animated every minute. The Israel-based MyHeritage licensed this sophisticated Live Portrait technology from another Israeli company, D-ID. “When we releas...
Photo by RootsTech Connect 2021 The RootsTech Connect 2021 conference held over 1,500 sessions covering different categories and cultures; and a BYUH alumna speaker at the event said family history can help people find meaning in life and improved well-being. According to Church Newsroom, FamilySearch hosts the conference every year. More than 1 million family history enthusiasts attended this year's RootsTech Connect, which made this the largest gathering in the conference’s 10-year history. Participants from more than 235 countries attended the event held from Feb. 25 to 27. The ...
When asked to describe the biggest change in her daughter, Elizabeth Thornton beamed with motherly pride. “She’s always been a bright, happy, wonderful person, but it’s like, she’s getting more bright and more happy and more able to share her awesomeness,” her mother said. Related A short time later, her bishop called all the youth in their ward congregation to index names on FamilySearch.org. Thornton was eager and willing, but was it easy to get started? She shakes her head with an emphatic, “No.” Just accessing her FamilySearch account was frustrating. She kept getting ...