https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/rtc2021/
Look closely at the URL for the image above. You might note that RootsTech 2022 is still on the FamilySearch.org page for 2021, but that will shortly change. Consistent with this series about digging down into the FamilySearch.org website, I think it is time to talk about RootsTech 2022. You will also note that I am in the Influencer Group. Hmm. Let's go back to RootsTech 2011, the very first time the conference was held with that name. At that time, there were a group of about 20 or so bloggers who were "known" in the greater genealogy blogging community. For some unknown reason at the time, I was included in that group. Blogging was a big, relatively new deal. Those people who are now making their millions off of YouTube.com had their counterparts in the blogging community, some of those bloggers have gone on to form entire companies around their blogs and are now on YouTube.com. I could give a few examples, but you probably can guess those who got their start as bloggers. OK, one example Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman. I got to meet her at one of the RootsTech conferences, by the way.
So, here we were at RootsTech 2017 and we were given a royal welcome with dinner, tours, and a lot of other advantages. Time passed. Bloggers were pasé. We became Ambassadors. Different name, same function. Advertise RootsTech. So now, we are Influencers. But this also means that we are all involved in different areas of the online influencing community, we are not all bloggers and we do not all blog about genealogy all the time. Now we post to Instagram, Facebook, and a hundred other venues.
So what about RootsTech 2022? It will look something like it did in 2021, but with more online content. Here is the announcement video.
https://youtu.be/w28NJMkR_kwNow, after more than ten years, I am still writing the same blog. I have not made millions off of the blog or YouTube or whatever and I am still writing mostly about genealogy with some technology thrown in. What will I be doing at RootsTech 2022? Primarily, I will be spending the entire week from Monday, February 28th to Saturday March 5th, 2022 online for 4 hours every day supporting the Salt Lake City, Family History Library and the Brigham Young University Family History Library consulting with patrons primarily in Latin America in Spanish. See this link for the information about this virtual consultation effort. I will also be supporting The Family History Guide with their online presence and classes during the conference. As usual, I will also be blogging about the experience before, during, and after RootsTech 2022.
Hope to see or hear from you all at the RootsTech 2022 Conference.
Again, the FamilySearch website is a lot more than initially meets the eye or can be found by clicking.
Here are the previous posts in this ongoing series.
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