Well, RootsTech is finally over and most attendees are getting settled back home. Before we left, we were able to get one last interview in for our 3 Questions series. Our last interview is with Amos Elliston, CTO of Geni.com. Geni is an online collaborative family tree site with over 50,000,000 people profiles in their trees. The ultimate goal of Geni is to create one giant family tree that connects everyone together.
This morning at RootsTech we had the pleasure to talk with Dick Eastman, of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. What started out as a small email newsletter to a few friends has grown over the years to a large list of over 60,000 online genealogy enthusiasts. Be sure to drop over to Dick’s website and sign up for the newsletter.
One of the first blogs to review Tpstry was Thomas MacEntee’s Geneabloggers. Before RootsTech, we had never met Thomas in person. So what was one of the first things we did upon meeting him at RootsTech? Ask him our three questions of course.
We were fortunate enough to hear AC in two sessions at RootsTech. His first session was all about popular mobile applications that genealogists can use. The second session we heard him in was a panel discussion about genealogy blogs. After you watch our 3 Questions video below, be sure to check out his blog, Find My Ancestor.
We were lucky this afternoon to talk with Sam Melden and Kevin Marsh of Vintage Aerial. Vintage Aerial specializes in finding historical photographs of rural locations and then printing high quality reproductions of those images. Just give them an address and they will start looking through their database of 25 million photographs for a match.
Tpstry has landed at RootsTech and there is definitely a large crowd. We were able to grab a few people to answer our 3 Questions and the first up is Jim Ericson from FamilySearch. Jim is the facilitator of the RootsTech Developer Challenge, a contest to see who can develop and present the best use of a genealogical API in 48 hours. The winner will be voted on by the audience on Saturday.
Tpstry helps users gather family memories from their relatives, combine them and then reshare them as a larger family history. This works by asking your relatives questions you might not find in other places. We thought it would be interesting to ask attendees of the RootsTech 2011 conference some of the more popular questions from Tpstry and video their responses. We will start posting these videos later in the week, so stay tuned.
It’s almost time to start packing for RootsTech 2011. While Tpstry will not have a booth or be presenting at the conference, we will be attending. If you will be at RootsTech and would like to meet up, let us know. We’d love to share Tpstry with anyone who will listen. See you next week.
