tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12943059743760101732024-03-13T09:31:41.589-07:00Genedocs: Family Research and Legacy PreservationGenedocs is known for its FREE Innovative Templates on Facebook.
The core of these were designed by program Founder Eric with the following essential experience:
Researching since 1985
Nearly 8 years honorable USAF Service
Magna cum Laude honors
Decade+ of records/information management organization.
With Genedocs, he also dares cross the shaky rope bridge between genealogy into the often feared and complex realm of legacy preparation.............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-31272748902065216112022-03-25T19:18:00.001-07:002022-03-25T19:18:26.940-07:0010,000+ member Milestone reached during PandemicAs we mourn nearly a million Americans and millions more lost around the globe to Covid these past two years, remember to celebrate the little things most people forget to even notice:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHBqak40AlPD_7PuLedzW5hj3FiNdLFMRH0_5nKY0QL0QrQimEzl0JEE-FF5asZexiBypwLradDKlxoxR4MghtK1BkeHL0aMsXi2VyojfHgoW0InejEVGgJIcHhTdsypfXY8D7TYt1Fjgnshfiq2Vb_g2GnImd8loohhGxB7vry1QAGQyaWZSZ7Nf1A/s1680/2022%20SPRING%20EVENTS.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHBqak40AlPD_7PuLedzW5hj3FiNdLFMRH0_5nKY0QL0QrQimEzl0JEE-FF5asZexiBypwLradDKlxoxR4MghtK1BkeHL0aMsXi2VyojfHgoW0InejEVGgJIcHhTdsypfXY8D7TYt1Fjgnshfiq2Vb_g2GnImd8loohhGxB7vry1QAGQyaWZSZ7Nf1A/s320/2022%20SPRING%20EVENTS.jpg"/></a></div>............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-41179991527624494712022-03-25T18:15:00.006-07:002022-03-25T18:15:49.450-07:00Rootstech 2022 - Choosing Connection as Ancestors Animated Portraits Now Can Speak Back to Us and Researchers Soon Get to Correct 1950 Census Name Handwriting Challenges<b>Rootstech 2022 was another resounding global success in its 2nd year being held entirely free and entirely online.</b>
My plans to attend as a presenter in 2019 as a presenter were derailed with the financial need to support NARA in the final few hundred hours of what ended up being 1,060+ hours I volunteered of overtime work to catch up the entire Fort Worth center on backlogs. I was delighted to return in the second year of the pandemic as a Social Media Influencer with our 10,00 wonderful members at Genedocs Templates via Facebook Groups.
While millions of family researchers in all degrees of experience enjoyed this years three day event packed with a fantastic theme song about choosing connection, many great keynote speakers messages, 800+ new presentations in addition to access to all the 2021 offerings, much of the focus was understandably zoomed in on new technological offerings that influence our personal family photo collectons, what new ways the big three (FamilySearch, Ancestry, and MyHeritage) are each influencing the branches of our trees, and of course the 10 year long awaited release by NARA on 1 APR 2022 of one of our favorite and most used U.S. Records Collections in the genealogy realm.
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As the 1950 Census is clearly the most anticipated records release this Spring, it certainly isn't the same old type of first day crash many of us witnessed in 2012 for the 1940 release. The biggest news tech-wise is that the at home time of many NARA folks was used to test and retest the new features of this massive 165TeraByte database <a href="https://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/1950-census-social-media-kit" target="_blank"></a> <br>
The most important feature will be researchers can use a new teted tool to submit corrections to names mistranscribed by the new Artificial Intelligence that scanned the handwritten entries of hundreds of thousands of enumerators nationwide on questionaires we all so greately love to peruse for just the right name. This is the first time researchers will have such an opportunity in U.S. history to quality review names of their relatives as they actually do their queries.
The most dynamic new tools were clearly from MyHeritage with the Storytelling spoken option to the 2021 Animation of any ancestors animated portrait. We quickly learned we could edit each chapter of the spoken story, select from a fair variety of multiregional male and female voices of a fwe ages even, and that there is also a great timeline feature they are still working out some of the bugs on like missing death years for ancestors who we obviously had entered full dates for that should hve been extractable - it still provides a wonderfully useful view in the context of major global historical events and allows teh view to see clear overlap of lifetimes as well as what I call near misses that would have prevented us from even being here today.
There are so many presentations, it is hared to pick a favorite in even the first month, but htat is why they will be available for a year, two, maybe three or more unless new technology makes them outdated so spend some quality free time viewing the key topics that interest you most and when you yearn for a new flavor, then try something completely new to you as well. They are usually 20 minutes to an hour to keep your attention and let you get up and move around between sessions, take a break, run an errand, etc.
Most of us are prepping this week with the fastest ways to searhc out our ancestors ED#s based on their addresses for next Fridays big release which NARA say happens at 12:01 am on 1 APR this year to get an earlier start
Genedocs members have my new filled in template to base their own off of and now you can to:<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53n2eGF5jZz6lbSJUuOuRY_YZ9usWXgHcuSCphrjNWYJ3FwmXIA1ys398ZQ0Rana6cit-I8BO5yr4OmY1gkZ1EfYY44tgPtbrb8GuaYKZFmK4LUzu-5zuyNBG1Q9VsL0r1s3TzznVrNjriN61C9u_7p1MV6-N7m9wG06UjUtYga38zU5wKZkprnFHog/s1724/1950%20My%20Census%20Queries.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53n2eGF5jZz6lbSJUuOuRY_YZ9usWXgHcuSCphrjNWYJ3FwmXIA1ys398ZQ0Rana6cit-I8BO5yr4OmY1gkZ1EfYY44tgPtbrb8GuaYKZFmK4LUzu-5zuyNBG1Q9VsL0r1s3TzznVrNjriN61C9u_7p1MV6-N7m9wG06UjUtYga38zU5wKZkprnFHog/s320/1950%20My%20Census%20Queries.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucP6SqabS7ISGWBWU7ZBjQGfX-mM3ZzRjBRUiFiALsuW4APzF44AvPiGt5aO7q2wt7MxUBhBNSiMo3rlPdGIU-rb05c2lAYRNjwTRyQzf9DSF7nnEAwBTqI70HZy4DDEvK0Sh3CX4gwfSj-VerPO3N970WPxelILlKRhNAZV1khg_rGMQ_GPhSdg4-g/s1378/1950%20Census%20Guide%20Erics%20JPG.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucP6SqabS7ISGWBWU7ZBjQGfX-mM3ZzRjBRUiFiALsuW4APzF44AvPiGt5aO7q2wt7MxUBhBNSiMo3rlPdGIU-rb05c2lAYRNjwTRyQzf9DSF7nnEAwBTqI70HZy4DDEvK0Sh3CX4gwfSj-VerPO3N970WPxelILlKRhNAZV1khg_rGMQ_GPhSdg4-g/s320/1950%20Census%20Guide%20Erics%20JPG.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYt5IZQ83ePIHFiuwTS_f-LlJCOZ5cofaO4_QxJcSWHO4oIWDqrKSplzo34Joa25avkPaysRgWQzA7tGHnnLqC0qcnE7ji-eFREBf6qjC9310I8MVu1_B-gEvDpGhqezqUG09DfABnbnL2QFDUfOIZ2yRqFKVkgfvMFCkq3vaQW6Jo0ACEkM3V_s1ng/s1559/1950%20Census%20Desktop%20Reminder%20Motivator.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYt5IZQ83ePIHFiuwTS_f-LlJCOZ5cofaO4_QxJcSWHO4oIWDqrKSplzo34Joa25avkPaysRgWQzA7tGHnnLqC0qcnE7ji-eFREBf6qjC9310I8MVu1_B-gEvDpGhqezqUG09DfABnbnL2QFDUfOIZ2yRqFKVkgfvMFCkq3vaQW6Jo0ACEkM3V_s1ng/s320/1950%20Census%20Desktop%20Reminder%20Motivator.jpg"/></a></div>
One more edit must add anoth3r column to this evolving 1950 Census Research Template thanks to Thomas MacEentee sharing how we can already search for Enumeration Districts at Ancestry in a beta version shared earlier today- Yay!
............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-63769666826685192572020-12-05T09:13:00.009-08:002020-12-05T09:51:56.577-08:00<p> <u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></b></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvBpMzFuvSg/X8u5Nhn7uLI/AAAAAAAADaA/v17Zsbp3NogUSUrmUxeLBo9LblW5A2lTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/2020%2BMarch%2BCoronavirus%2BCOVID-19.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvBpMzFuvSg/X8u5Nhn7uLI/AAAAAAAADaA/v17Zsbp3NogUSUrmUxeLBo9LblW5A2lTACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2020%2BMarch%2BCoronavirus%2BCOVID-19.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></u></div><u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />2020 Blogging Last Thing on Many Researchers' Minds:</span></span></b></u><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since before the U.S. Government Shutdown and Stay at Home orders in mid March We had and continue to have a deadly Pandemic with the Covid-19 "Corona" Virus and though it caused me to stay at home much of this year, sadly I elected not to blog. Partly because social media was hugely distracting with all the political strife over who would be the 26th President of the United States following the astounding past four years, this years deadly Pandemic, and hopefully heal so much of what America needs to survive and thrive as a world leader during such trying times demanding tremendous personal and community resilience from the Atlantic to the Pacific span of the country and well beyond our own borders to long standing allies suffering similarly in their own cherished beautiful sovereign lands. <br /><br />Did I personally get any research done - not hardly any that I recall unless it was related to ancestors living during the last pandemic in 1917-1919...it is hard to believe I was working on the world's last Pandemic Records for the U.S. Food Administration on a NARA work project just a few years ago and now we are sack dab in the middle of the next contagious world afflicting deadly virus just over 100 years later!<br /><br />Yes the Spanish Flu pandemic lasted two whole years apparently and none of us can imagine going through a repeat of this year's craziness the overturned so much of day to day living no matter where you were, what your class level, what you thought you knew, who you supported, etc . It is a shock that two NIELSEN great grandparents both died within three weeks of one another's passing both of that very deadly Spanish Flu in Denmark in the final year of that dreadful global disease.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gKZJ_s04ttE/X8vCjSo1hjI/AAAAAAAADcI/4HqFFzN0IWwcthcAQwnJQrdTLWwysHfBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s544/20%2BChristian.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="399" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gKZJ_s04ttE/X8vCjSo1hjI/AAAAAAAADcI/4HqFFzN0IWwcthcAQwnJQrdTLWwysHfBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20%2BChristian.bmp" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wL_I86_yzTc/X8vEGB6zbTI/AAAAAAAADcc/qU2z8EazdmQhA2EhFD6MyN_plczyOke1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s525/21%2BDorothea%2BJ2.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wL_I86_yzTc/X8vEGB6zbTI/AAAAAAAADcc/qU2z8EazdmQhA2EhFD6MyN_plczyOke1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/21%2BDorothea%2BJ2.bmp" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It was just as much as a shock that our paternal grandfather Richard Jelle, who later married one of their eldest grand daughters Dorothy, was to become the victim of TB while serving in WWI in the Philippines with another brother who I found the document at NARA showing they embarked from Angle Isle San Francisco out on the same ship the U.S. A. T. Sherman. (Document and ship Images below) Richard was raised in part by an aunt from Norway because TB took his mother when he was just an infant revealing another reason siblings are so very much worth researching in any family as they are a huge part of why/how we even made it here and likely how/why some of our descendants will make it to the future on earth as well. <br /></span><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E20ohqZ2Qss/X8u8QpMwjGI/AAAAAAAADa4/-KMnhfw9xecJji-dL_vpyqJY4xowXaYAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20180109_013132a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1614" data-original-width="2048" height="497" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E20ohqZ2Qss/X8u8QpMwjGI/AAAAAAAADa4/-KMnhfw9xecJji-dL_vpyqJY4xowXaYAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w630-h497/IMG_20180109_013132a.jpg" width="630" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MmaXQzMIU18/X8u8SytBZWI/AAAAAAAADa8/HwzPEJq_ibIg7HkPAnmyI8PPITenXPJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20180109_013235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="668" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MmaXQzMIU18/X8u8SytBZWI/AAAAAAAADa8/HwzPEJq_ibIg7HkPAnmyI8PPITenXPJJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w376-h668/IMG_20180109_013235.jpg" width="376" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAHvokQL74Q/X8u9s1ynCaI/AAAAAAAADbU/qXF-D_FwVlIbRkPWIxckSWsDxBQF8V6YwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20180109_012941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAHvokQL74Q/X8u9s1ynCaI/AAAAAAAADbU/qXF-D_FwVlIbRkPWIxckSWsDxBQF8V6YwCLcBGAsYHQ/w547-h308/IMG_20180109_012941.jpg" width="547" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VBwQrDmoBcs/X8u7m3nukKI/AAAAAAAADaU/6UTFQ6mmgGcqYqBxTqNf3s5cA2dQFzO9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1599/s-l1600%2Bdarker%2B0%2B0%2B-53.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1599" height="346" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VBwQrDmoBcs/X8u7m3nukKI/AAAAAAAADaU/6UTFQ6mmgGcqYqBxTqNf3s5cA2dQFzO9wCLcBGAsYHQ/w533-h346/s-l1600%2Bdarker%2B0%2B0%2B-53.jpg" width="533" /> </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Richard also personally handed family another post card from his return trip from the pacific clearly via Nagasaki, JAPAN on the U.S. A. 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It has been far too long since I last posted to my blog, but clearly have been quite busy since in the end of May 2019 we finally crested the 8,000 member mark. I extend sincere thanks to all who have helped spread the word to like minded folks around the globe to reach this amazing goal.............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-22363493348257083882017-12-30T19:36:00.001-08:002017-12-30T19:36:26.602-08:002017:<br /><br />It is official - I have not blogged this year until today. However, I have remained remarkably busy under considerable stress levels at work as well. Here is a recap of 2017's biggest mentions:<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />November - Genedocs Templates group surpassed the initial 7,000 member milestone !!!<br /><br />On Ancestry I stumbled across the passenger list of the Sherman WWI Army transport from San Francisco to Manila with our grandfather Richard Jelle and his brother Henry both listed on the same page.<br /><br />We attended two great family weddings from September - November !!!<br /><br />I also began a group for Nerf Rival in the local area - need more outdoor active recreation ;-)<br /><br />I would have more but a PC crash left much inaccessible :-(............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-92108693587925375812016-04-11T23:56:00.002-07:002016-04-11T23:56:52.528-07:00Family Legacy Protection 101<br />
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Who do you pay to protect your legacy on a regular basis to ensure it is safe from all reasonable threats?<br /><br /> 1. An Attorney?<br />
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4. A Surviving Former Victim of Harsh Attacks on their Family Legacy?<br /><br />If you don't have all four covered, then your legacy is the most vulnerable to the threats most folks never see coming.<br /><br />Who do you trust to bequeath your monetary legacy is one key part of protecting all you have worked so hard for over past decades, but there is much more than money to your legacy!<br />
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Who do you trust to bequeath your photographic and genealogical legacy?<br />
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<br />Who do you entrust to bequeath your intellectual property?<br />
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It is a great deal to consider, but if you knew how things will turn out if you overlook each of these key legacy considerations, you would never wish the consequences upon any honorable person on earth.</div>
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Who would have thought we would all be donning medical masks this year?<br />
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Beng an Ambassador, you get an up close and personal view of the stage and great periphery like this:<br />
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The expo hall is a huge reason many people come - hundreds of vendors all in one spot with new, improved, and exciting products and services! What's not to love?</div>
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Geneabloggers abound in the media hub - where was I for this shot? Photoshop specialist ahoy... <br />
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We were provided a decent Expo Hall Map:<br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tEfEuK5_7dM/VsF1nqfk2fI/AAAAAAAACc8/8dLk60GnX8Q/s1600/MAP%2BExpo%2BHall.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tEfEuK5_7dM/VsF1nqfk2fI/AAAAAAAACc8/8dLk60GnX8Q/s320/MAP%2BExpo%2BHall.bmp" width="298" /></a><br />Tami Osmer Mize ensured the vendor list was organized since the app didn't seem to be up at all:<br /><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Alphabetically first...</u></span></div>
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If you met me, then you were given one of these to adhere to your conference badge - Saturday folks wore wristbands which seemed a deterrent to the ribbon joy, but better creative planning next time ;-) </div>
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Rootstech is a blast no matter what year you decide to go - just make the most of every opportunity and encounter with every one you can meet!</div>
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Behind the scenes Expo Hall tour prior to keynote Thursday. Ambassadors also enjoyed a very nice media dinner the night before with an extended look at Paula Madison Williams video and heard her speak more!</div>
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Following the keynote we were able to see the largest chart in the world actually hanging in the Expo Hall</div>
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The front or obverse of this chart was impressive also even with the 3-D looking fellow atop a ladder writing in areas that needed to be filled out (zoom at right). </div>
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Pat R Erickson AKA Dear Myrt earned the second Genedocs cap and only Heritage Series 2016 Edition created thus far given away by being the first person to ever video interview the Founder of Genedocs.</div>
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You simply have to ask other strangers to take your photo sometimes - a nice young lady managed to capture my raw enthusiasm at the conference logo fountain after Thursday's wonderful time! </div>
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Which you can clearly see is a stark contrast to how I plainly began the same day just hours earlier !</div>
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Rootstech will change you and for the better I must add! You may need to spend some money to make it happen, but you will leave wishing you had twice as much time and money to invest in this wonderful even bringing so many like minded industry leaders together for such a fun time together!</div>
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Friday meant losing the tie, the collared shirt and replacing them both with an even bigger smile!<br />
A smile like the late comedian Robin Williams used in the film Patch Adams to encite a response from every passer-by:<br />
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Yes this should and did do the trick - most peoples faces lit up whether they wanted to or not as they read this shirt and saw my big smile - they must have been thinking - "great, another completely crazy genealogy guy!"<br />
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Devon Lee made sure I attended her husband's Audacity freeware use with Genealogy session</div>
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KEYNOTES were all unexpectedly awesome!</div>
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But more importantly were the great cohort ambassadors, bloggers, Facebookers, and Genedocs followers and even group members I met:<br />
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They are all keepsakes and this years can be used at future evens alone or in tandem with newer more improved Genodocsian versions. After all, I had intended on cool MOO printfinity cards with a different back design on each, but this is a partly a start up and lower expenses in any endeavor from the onset are something each entreprenuerial success speaker at rootstech repeated. Spend less up front and just get the successful idea out infront of potential investors. SO sheaper vistaprint with a 50% off wins this year - but so do I with more swag! Is it mere coincidence that Thomas MacEntee has dozens of unique PCnametag.com ribbon designs at the ready for our remarkable blogger group and his friends? No - he has invested years of conferenceing and lessons learned which, when combined with his strikingly similar sense of humor, ends up with some great cheekey adult humor possbilities for future year's badge ribbons! ............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-87967359347079271592016-02-07T15:43:00.000-08:002016-02-07T15:43:30.939-08:00Rootstech Saturday and Beyond...Ahhh...the end of another super conference melding genealogy types with technologists to break through frustrating hurdledes and pitfalls galore!<br /><br />We the users almost always seem to win... well almost. This year I would like to recount some of my wins a<br />
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HUGE WINS - look at all the friends I finally met and new ones too from FB mostly but all are really gold when you get together such kind like minded souls abound which is so refreshing and we are so adult but fun to the core - some comments I won't repeat here but when Genealogy and adult film industry are mentioned in the same breath - you know genealogists are getting wild and crazy! Look at how friend True warmed up to this new found funny guy. When I met her she was crying from laughing. When we left Dear Myrt had her sad and teary so I got her another hug - we found out we both we prior military - both working with military police - both assigned to Korea practically the same years in the 90s. Wow small world - thanks for letting us discover our vast common ground beyond the geneacrazy in each of us! Shelley there with us is what Mom would have called a pickle too - great senses of humor abound in our group of blogging fun folks! This is by no means my last post on people I met and great meaningful spent time with , but a dose you can handle before I head to the airport...<br />
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Day 1: Today was awesome after meeting so many familiar faces and names from social media in the blogging, genedocs following, and other genealogy realms I enjoy - it made it much more fun today that I had met so many and enjoyed time together yesterday for Innovators! Need I mention rootstech hit # 4 in twitter trending social media hits this morning! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153587180465186&set=gm.492437954269528&type=3&theater a few better pics from the past 48 or so hours of fun:<br />
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My First Interview - yes Dear Myrt has me on You tube for your viewing pleasure and I hope you are at least curious to see and hear my first take with her that seemed to go really well. She of course asked about Genedocs and a 1 minute challenge that Steve Rockwood/Familysearch CEO put us up to in the first keynote today. her is the interview link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHS9b-qRIC0">Myrt Interviews Eric Jelle - Genedocs</a> ............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-76170623851533112082016-02-02T10:36:00.001-08:002016-02-02T10:36:59.630-08:00Can It All be Done This next Week? Sure it Can! Busy week ahead, but also a genea-vacation paradise!<br />
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Filing Taxes, Nearly a Week at #rootstech with each day chock full of new exciting classes, great events, tons of folks to meet and talk with about where genealogy is and how Genedocs can help push the cause forward, and wrap finally it up with Superbowl 50 Sunday and my Broncos who will hopefully buck those Panthers aside from NC without much trouble. Need I mention I come back possibly to jury duty - busy week indeed!............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-89649136589463219542016-02-02T10:24:00.003-08:002016-02-02T10:24:45.912-08:00Twas the Week of Rootstech 2016...Alright it is finally here! #rootstech . The wait is finally over and tomorrow I take the short flight to genealogists conference paradise - Rootstech 2016 at the Salt Palace. I am positive the wait has been worth it and know I would have been overwhelmed with last years gigantic crowd.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>DAY 1 GENEDOCS FOUNDER'S GAMEPLAN:</b><br /><br /><b>WED 3rd:</b> Fly In, $8 Shuttle to Salt Palace, and Hopefully Register in Time for Innovator Keynote and decent seat.<br /><br />9 - 10a Opening Innovator Summit</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">1015 - 1115a Investment Activity and Trends in GeneTech - Family History Innovation</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">1130 - Noon DIY Small Business Guerrilla Marketing Strategies</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">1215 - 145p Innovator Showdown Semi-final with Boxed Lunch</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">2 - 230p A SAAS Architechture for 3D Genealogy Trees</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">245 - 400p Entrepreneurship: Validation Precedes the Money</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">4:15 - 445p Re-imagining genealogy Sites with Interactive Visuals</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">5 - 530p Are You Investment Ready? How to get Investors Interested In Your Business</span><br />
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LAKE CITY, 27 January 2016—RootsTech, the largest family history
conference in the world, is looking forward to over 20,000 visitors over
four days with an exciting array of speakers and entertainers, over 250
interesting and informative classes, a huge expo hall with more than
160 exhibitors. There is something for every level of family
history—from the beginner to experienced. The three-day conference
begins on Thursday, February 4, and goes through Saturday, February 6.
For more information go to <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRootsTech.org%2F&h=vAQFMhM3M&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RootsTech.org</a>. <br />
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keynote speakers and offerings reflect the growing influence of family
history. Today multiple generations of all ages are engaging through
family storytelling and sharing memories within families using social
media and an expanding array of new technologies and mobile apps. The
opening session on February 4 will begin with Stephen T. Rockwood, who
is the managing director for the Family History Department of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and President/CEO of FamilySearch
International.<br />
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Also featured is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Paula Williams Madison</a> who
is chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles
based media consultancy company with global reach. After her retirement
in 2011, Madison started doing research on her family lineage. She wrote
the book and produced a movie Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica,
Harlem in April 2015 about her experiences. A free screening of the
movie will be provided on Wednesday, February 3.<br />
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Bruce Feiler is
one of America’s most popular commentators about contemporary life. He
hosts the PBS series Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Bruce Feiler</a>.
He wrote The Secrets of Happy Families containing best practices for
busy parents from some of the country’s most creative minds. He has
appeared on many television shows on NRP, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and
others.<br />
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On Friday, February 5, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">David Isay</a>,
is a scheduled keynote. He’s the founder of StoryCorps, an
award-winning organization that provides people of all backgrounds and
beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve their life
stories. 50,000 interviews have been archived and preserved at the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He has also written
several New York Times bestsellers, including Listening is an Act of
Love. He is a broadcaster and documentarian, and his research reveals
ways to tell great stories for the family historian.<br />
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Also on Friday, Josh and Naomi Davis, popular family bloggers known as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Love Taza</a>,
will speak. On their blog, they relate their life with their three
children in bustling New York City. The blog has become a digital
destination viewed by millions around the world. People love the
inspiration about raising a family and the appreciation Naomi has for
life’s simple joys.<br />
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On Saturday, February 6, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Doris Kearns Goodwin</a> is
a world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author. She worked with Spielberg on the movie Lincoln, based in part on
her award winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln. She has written books about Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon
Johnson, and the Kennedys and shares her expertise and commentary on
many television shows. She has a PhD in government from Harvard and was
an assistant to Lyndon Johnson and has been a consultant in several PBS
and History Channel documentaries.<br />
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Also on Saturday, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Michael Leavitt</a>,
a three-term former governor of Utah, will speak. He also served in
George W. Bush’s cabinet as an Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency and Secretary of Health and Human Services.<br />
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The second annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Innovator Summit</a> is
a one-day event on Wednesday, February 3, for developers,
entrepreneurs, and innovators from around the globe to explore, examine,
and discover business and technological opportunities within the family
history industry—a rapidly growing multibillion dollar industry.
Innovators from around the globe and from all industries will be
competing for a piece of the $100,000 in total cash and in-kind prizes.
The keynote speaker for this event will be <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Ken Krogue</a>, an entrepreneur who has taken his business <a href="http://insidesales.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">InsideSales.com</a>
from a small beginning to a billion dollar industry. He will share his
expertise about social media and how to use the different forms
effectively.<br />
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Along with the keynotes, RootsTech attendees will be able to hear from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Crescent Super Band</a>, featuring <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Ryan Inness</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">Lower Lights</a>, a popular gospel and folk band.<br />
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More information about speakers, entertainers, classes, and how to register at RootsTech can be found at <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRootsTech.org%2F&h=TAQHr5bYn&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RootsTech.org</a>.<br />
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<b>About RootsTech</b><br />
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RootsTech,
hosted by FamilySearch, is a global conference celebrating families
across generations, where people of all ages are inspired to discover
and share their memories and connections. This annual event has become
the largest of its kind in the world, attracting tens of thousands of
participants worldwide.<br />
Media Contact:<br />
Paul Nauta<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/rootstech-ambassador-2016/family-history-enthusiasts-worldwide-gathering-in-utah-for-rootstech-2016/489757354537588#" role="button">nautapg@familysearch.org</a></div>
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<b>SALT LAKE CITY, (13 January 2016)</b>—RootsTech, the world’s
largest family history technology conference, will turn the spotlight on
highly successful tech entrepreneur and founder of Insidesales.com, Ken
Krogue, as its 2016 Innovator Summit keynote speaker. <a href="https://www.rootstech.org/agenda/innovator_summit?lang=eng">Innovator Summit</a>, held the first day of <a href="https://www.rootstech.org/?lang=eng">RootsTech</a>,
is for developers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to explore
business and technological opportunities within this multibillion dollar
industry.<br />
The Innovator Summit will be held Wednesday February 3, 2016, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.<br />
Kenneth Krogue cofounded <a href="http://insidesales.com/">InsideSales.com</a>
in November 2004, and the company is now worth 1.5 billion dollars.
InsideSales.com offers the industry’s leading sales acceleration built
on Neurolytics®, a predictive and self-learning engine that drives
revenue growth by recommending the best leads to contact and close. He
sets the vision for the company together with CEO, Dave Elkington. Ken
has more than 24 years of experience in sales, business strategy, and
marketing in both domestic and international markets.<br />
As a contributor for Forbes online, Krogue focuses on using the
Internet, InsideSales, lead generation, gamification, and social media
to grow business. Ken says, “I’m an American who cares enough to speak
up and a serial entrepreneur with a short attention span, so I need
things to work really fast.” Ken is a popular speaker at industry events
(20+ each year) and confesses he shares “almost” all of his trade
secrets on his personal blog: <a href="http://www.kenkrogue.com/">http://www.kenkrogue.com</a><br />
The Innovator Summit Keynote Session begins at 9:00 a.m., followed by
a full day of classes, the semifinal round of the RootsTech Innovator
Showdown over a boxed lunch, a networking social, and wrapping up with
the Innovator Summit Hack-a-thon for those with a penchant for late
night collaborative coding.<br />
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Rootstech Innovator Showdown</h2>
Twelve semifinalists have been chosen and announced for the RootsTech
Innovator Showdown, the annual contest designed to foster innovation in
the family history industry, with $100,000 in cash and prizes offered
by sponsors. 2016 RootsTech Innovator Showdown sponsors include Lenovo,
IPOP Foundation, David Bradford, Grow Utah, Woodbury Corporation, Hero
Partners, Infinite Mind, and others.<br />
For more Innovator Showdown information and to see the list of 12 semi-finalists and their projects, visit <a href="http://www.rootstech.org/showdown">www.rootstech.org/showdown</a>.<br />
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About RootsTech</h2>
<i>RootsTech</i>, hosted by FamilySearch, is a global conference
celebrating families across generations, where people of all ages are
inspired to discover and share their memories and connections. This
annual event has become the largest of its kind in the world, attracting
tens of thousands of participants worldwide.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Genedocs Founder's Input: </b> As a previously twice life licensed sales rep. in Colorado during the first decade of the millennium and an attendee of the infamous Tom Hopkins seminar in 2010, I can tell you that getting a chance to hear presentations from this level of corporate sales giant in the billion + company realm is always a real treat and worth taking many notes of their decades of insight into what works for consumers and companies to keep business running and satisfaction higher than average with offered services and/or merchandise. Ken will surely make the innovator summit keynote one to remember for years to come for folks interested in improving their business opportunities or just starting out on a new biz adventure! I fly in on the 3rd and hope the shuttle can get me to the Palace in time to register and enjoy this impressive start to rootstech 2016! See you there if you can make it and if not I will do my best to keep readers posted on daily news as it unfolds.</span> </span></div>
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............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-83294714333358237712016-01-09T11:17:00.000-08:002016-01-09T11:17:11.091-08:00Now that I have covered some of the required photo promotion as an Ambassador, it is also my duty to share some of my own experiences from past Rootstech attendance. I went at a great time in 2013 when things weren't so exponentially enormous like attendance last year cresting over 21,000 clearly due to Donnie Osmond and members of the Presidential Bush family being celebrity keynotes that did what celebrities do - draw unprecedented attention and crowds! My few days in 2013 were perhaps some of the most remarkable as far as interacting with others sharing the same interest and passion for family research!<br /><br />I met fellow Geneabloggers Randy Seaver, and Heather Wilkinson Rojo, and Thomas MacEntee in person for starters which was great but somehow missed out on the prized geneablogger beads - hmmm? That oversight will not reoccur in 2016 :-). <br />
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<br />I gave away about twenty T-Shirts for things as simple as the first person I met, the first person to sit next to me in a key note, the first person from TX to meet me, etc. Even one fella with Swedish roots who was the first to tell me a great joke about the Norwegians and the Swedes! Folks were always delighted and delightful to meet and there was never a moment without something fascinating to share with one another.<br /><br />Did I mention there is a spot with an all you can eat sushi bar within walking distance?! You will eat well too and the entertainment is great seeing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsal live and a Capella groups is all real treat also!<br />
<br />It was the ideal venue for spring boarding ideas in a crowd of like-minded folks for Genedocs. Now I have some business to attend to. See you there if you can make it in 2016!<br />
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<br />............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1294305974376010173.post-26088177494934100192016-01-09T10:38:00.001-08:002016-01-09T10:38:21.317-08:00It is time to blog more than once in a day as an official Rootstech Ambassador. Most of my following is on facebook, but the blogger crowd is entitled to see and know more too! Here you go - the remaining pics from the ambassador photobase:<br />
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<b>We made it to 5,000 Genedocs Templates Facebook Members! To Celebrate...</b></h2>
<br />As Christmas fast approaches, I have figured out just how to select the contest and <span style="color: magenta;"><b>winner of my Ambassador Contest Pass</b> </span>and it is definitely true to the heart of Genedocs legacy preservation goals - I will begin accepting submissions via the Facebook Genedocs Templates group page for one week: starting December 26 2015 through January 1st 2016.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">What the Pass includes: one 3-DAY PASS, it includes the following</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">over 200 classes</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Keynotes</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">General sessions</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Getting Started classes</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Expo hall</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Evening events</span></span></li>
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<u><b>NOTE: Here are the short rules you must comply with:</b></u><br />
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1. To qualify, you must be able to attend Rootstech 2016 Conference in Salt Lake City from Feb 4 - 6, 2016, handle the expense of your own travel to and from the conference, hotel accommodations, and meals. The prize pass is non-transferable beyond the winner and will be instead presented to a runner up participant should the initial selected winner not meet this basic eligibility criteria. If the winner has already secured their registration prior to the contest, then Rootstech can and will reimburse them for their previous purchase of a like valued or lesser valued pass for the conference so that they may take advantage of this prize pass. <br />
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2. To enter, you must submit a brand new template of your own designing using MS Office tools.<br />
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3. To enter, you will submit your template including a relevant privacy screened example from your family tree to the "Files" area of the <u>Genedocs Templates Facebook Group page</u> with a file name that includes both the words Rootstech and Contest.<br />
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4. Your template must be a tool that you could have most benefited from when you first began your family research whether you began last week or sometime decades ago. It should be universally applicable to others doing similar research in the following categories.<br />
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5. Your template submission should focus on one of the following general categories:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><u><b>- Hybrid Category: </b></u></span>Preservation of both Textual Information, Photographic Information, and Detailed Source Document Information in a better organized unique format relevant to best organizing family research findings.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b><u>- Legal Category:</u></b></span> (best method of organizing uncovered Last Wills, Trust documents, Contested Wills, etc. and their significance to the family as a whole)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><b>- Audio/Visual Bonanza:</b></u></span></span><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span> </b>Preserving a minimum of three audio and/or visual clips (1-2 minutes maximum for each clip in MS PPT<br />
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6. Your template <u>must be created using in MS Office </u>(Word, Excel, or Power Point) and include a relevant example from your family tree for at least one deceased relative (= without any concerns for privacy of the living.) This means your template must be accompanies by a clear graphic example (screenshot pasted from your own family tree) Please make it professional looking enough to post on social media since by submitting your template and relevant example from your tree you are consenting for the template and example to be viewed and tried out on other family trees by the 5,000+ like minded family researchers who make up the membership of the Genedocs Templates Facebook Group administered by Eric Jelle / Genedocs Founder and Contest Judge.<br />
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7. Submissions meeting all of these guideline rules prior to the cutoff date and time of 11:59 on 1 Jan 2016,<br />
will be judged on the following elements/factors creativity, relevancy, professional appearance of the screenshot shared example and the template as a whole, and ease of use for family researchers of all skill and experience levels.<br />
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Good Luck!<br />
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As Ambassadors to next February's annual conference, we are provided many nice perks for being social media springboards to our many followers - perhaps a few dozen or hundred on our genealogy related blogs and hundreds or even thousands more on our own relevant social media administered groups . <b><br /><span style="color: blue;">Need I mention our Genedocs Templates Group on Facebook is about 16 members away from our 5,000 member goal?<br /><span style="color: magenta;"><br />Yes - that is where I will be selecting my 3-Day Pass recipient in the next month. </span></span></b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;"><u>One of these can be worth up several hundred dollars </u>with hundreds of top notch classes available to attend not to mention the always worthwhile keynotes and non-stop extravaganza of genea-activity you can enjoy and learn from in the expo hall.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">If you know me at all and how I roll with offers, it is all about offering maximum quality and often a FREE cost level so do stay tuned on facebook in the next month or so if you are interested in winning a Free Pass. Also if you have already paid for one and win, there are instructions on being credited back your original purchase if you are selected as a winner of an Ambassador provided pass to Rootstech.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">What have I been up to? Here is a peek of some of my many recent projects:</span></span></span><br />
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<strong>RootsTech Announces Thursday Morning Keynotes</strong>
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We are thrilled to announce the Thursday keynote speaker lineup for
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<strong>Paula Williams Madison</strong> <br />
Author, Filmmaker, and Retired NBC Executive
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Paula Madison is chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management, a
retired NBCUniversal executive, and the author and filmmaker of <em>Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China,</em> a personal story about discovering family connections as she discovers her long-lost grandfather.
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<strong>Bruce Feiler</strong> <br />
Best-selling Author and <em>New York Times</em> Columnist
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Bruce Feiler is a <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author, columnist, and frequent contributor to NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. His most recent book, <em>The Secrets of Happy Families,</em> is the result of a personal three-year journey to find the smartest and most novel solutions to make his own family happier.
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<strong>Stephen T. Rockwood</strong> <br />
President and CEO of FamilySearch International
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Steve Rockwood is the newly appointed president and CEO of
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world and host of RootsTech 2016. Prior to working with FamilySearch,
Steve was a successful entrepreneur, creating unique services for
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RootsTech, hosted by FamilySearch, is a global conference celebrating
families across generations, where people of all ages are inspired to
discover, preserve, and share their family stories and connections. This
annual event has become the largest of its kind in the world,
attracting tens of thousands of participants worldwide.
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For more information about RootsTech 2016, visit <a href="http://click.familysearch.ldschurch.org/?qs=d34c9bea6248ec2521d763807d0c233c575603f67e407214335c514f25cfd446" target="_blank">RootsTech.org</a>.
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<b>ROOTSTECH 2016 UPDATE:</b> I have been officially accepted as a Rootstech 2016 Ambassador! <br /><br />I am looking forward to this 2nd opportunity to attend in three years and excited to meet new folks and collaborate on ideas for moving family research technology into more useful and available medium without high cost and hassle. If you can make it, I look forward to seeing you.<br />
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I had entered 3 Genedocs presentations and a Lab for using GIMP and MS Paint together for 3-D ancestor effects, but my presentation experience and topics sadly didn't make the cut. Maybe next time Rootstech :-D<br />
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<br /><span style="color: magenta;"><b>GENEDOCS TEMPLATES UPDATE: </b>We are nearly at 4,700 members as of 18 September. Will you be in the critical first 5,000 and learn what benefits come with that early bird grouping?<br /><br />There is only one way to find out! Join us as</span>............................................................Genedocshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09428110138098032110noreply@blogger.com2