ROOTS & BRANCHES

When Lynn Broderick, the blogger known as “The Single Leaf,” asked me to be part of a panel on ethics at the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City earlier this month, I readily agreed. I’ll admit however, that I was reminded of an old joke about ethics: “Everyone has them but no two people agree …

Genealogy programming has gone through several phases in the last few years as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. First there was the cancellation—like a string of dominoes one after another—of conference after conference in spring 2020. Then came the “Great Age of Virtual” in which every society from local outfits and their monthly meetings …

RootsTech 2023, smaller than in the past but still the world’s largest genealogy conference by far, is just a week in the rearview mirror. This year’s theme was “Uniting” — uniting people, traditions, stories, memories, technology, innovation, communities and families. The conference itself was a great opportunity to reconnect with many people in the family …

The National Genealogical Society’s conference returns to Richmond, Virginia, in just a few months, and is designed for family history researchers at all levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Presentations by local experts and nationally known speakers is one of the hallmarks of family history conference, and the Richmond event (which runs from May 31 to June …