Rootstech2014
On February 6-8th I attended the Rootstech conference in Salt Lake City. This conference brings together those interested in Family History work and the technology people that create the equipment, apps and software to make the family historians happy. There was awesome keynote speakers inspiring everyone to write their own stories. Everyone has a story. What is your story? Write it down. Share it in FaceBook, write it down in a Blog or keep a journal. If anyone is interested they can listen to the some of the presentations and the keynote speakers at Rootstech2014.
The new project on FamilySearch indexing this year is obituaries. The theme for the project is, "Dead men tell no tales but their obituaries do..." So there was a pirate roaming around the convention center ready to have his photo taken with anyone willing. You can help with the obituary project by visiting FamilySearch.org and clicking on the indexing tab.
I was invited to work on a committee of community members working to create a monument dedicated to the miners who lost their lives in the coal mines of Carbon County. My part on the committee so far has been to help with the verification and documentation of the names of all the coal miners. There are several others working on this project and trying to find death certificates, newspaper articles and other information about the miners. It is an awesome project and it will be fun to be a part of it. KSL channel 5 was in town today taking pictures and gathering information. Here is a story telling all about it. Memorial for Carbon County Miners There is a beginning list of the miners. This list has already been added too, deleted from and changed in many way. Check it out and see if you can add any information to it. List of miners
So, the title of this entry is, "What do Rootstech and Miners have in common? Rootstech was all about writing our stories. Every miner has a story and it is important for us to learn what that story is. What happened in the mine that day that caused each man to lose his life? What stories do the families of these miners have to tell? The monument is scheduled to be dedicated on Labor Day of 2015. It will be interesting to see if we learn some of those stories during the coming year.
The new project on FamilySearch indexing this year is obituaries. The theme for the project is, "Dead men tell no tales but their obituaries do..." So there was a pirate roaming around the convention center ready to have his photo taken with anyone willing. You can help with the obituary project by visiting FamilySearch.org and clicking on the indexing tab.
I was invited to work on a committee of community members working to create a monument dedicated to the miners who lost their lives in the coal mines of Carbon County. My part on the committee so far has been to help with the verification and documentation of the names of all the coal miners. There are several others working on this project and trying to find death certificates, newspaper articles and other information about the miners. It is an awesome project and it will be fun to be a part of it. KSL channel 5 was in town today taking pictures and gathering information. Here is a story telling all about it. Memorial for Carbon County Miners There is a beginning list of the miners. This list has already been added too, deleted from and changed in many way. Check it out and see if you can add any information to it. List of miners
So, the title of this entry is, "What do Rootstech and Miners have in common? Rootstech was all about writing our stories. Every miner has a story and it is important for us to learn what that story is. What happened in the mine that day that caused each man to lose his life? What stories do the families of these miners have to tell? The monument is scheduled to be dedicated on Labor Day of 2015. It will be interesting to see if we learn some of those stories during the coming year.
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