RootsTech Attendance

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-2019-year-in-review/

How does the FamilySearch sponsored annual RootsTech Conference attendance compare to other national (and international) conferences? What is the attendance trend at the RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah for the last few years? 

Since there has only been one RootsTech Conference in London, I am not going to include those attendance figures in this post. Overall Rootstech conference attendance includes paid admissions, exhibitors and their support personnel, FamilySearch staff and volunteers, and on Saturday, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who attend for free on a limited basis for Family Discovery Day.  The numbers reported are sometimes rounded and not at all specific. Here are some of the attendance figures reported for the past few years. 

2019

2018

2017

Estimated to be 12,000 attendees with 30,000 registered attendees on the Family Discovery Day

2016

Over 25,000 attendees, no figures for Family Discover Day, including online attendees, the number is 375,000 that includes Includes in-person, online, and local Family Discovery Day events.

2015

Reported to be 23,918 attendees with 10,216 paid attendees and 15,765 Family Discovery Day attendees

2014

7,253 paid attendees with 6,900 Family Discovery Day attendees

2013

6,770 total registered attendees and 1,500 youth attended the special youth orientation program

In some cases, it is unclear how registrations compare to the total numbers of attendees. It is difficult to compare the attendance from year to year but it is clear that 2019 was down from recent previous years. 

These figures show an upward trend, except for from 2018 to 2019, over the years especially if you factor in the number of people reached online. It will be interesting to see how the figures change for 2020 and whether or not the London conference will have an impact on the overall attendance in the U.S.