Today was another really successful and awesome day at RootsTech 2017. But I have to wake up in 3 hours to catch my plane, so this will have to be extremely short. The Cake Boss guy, Buddy Valastro, spoke in the morning. He was pretty long-winded and arrogant, in my opinion. But the guy sitting…
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RootsTech 2017: DAY THREE, or Catholics and Mormons have a LOT in common
Today was both the first day that we made it to the keynote speaker (extremely inspiring and emotional! Of course the tears were flowing freely!) and also the first day I had a real, filling, substantial, delicious meal! You cannot get good Mexican food in my corner of Iowa; I miss real Mexican food from…
RootsTech 2017: DAY TWO
Today was awesome! We got up late and missed the keynote speaker because…well…I may have stayed up until 2 am talking with my sister in law. She has this magical gift of getting people to open up to her. She is an aesthetician/hair stylist, after all. Not like I am that short on words, anyway…haha…
Radioactive Carps….aka RootsTech 2017: DAY ZERO
Well, Sondra and I are on our way to RootsTech 2017. This is the world’s largest genealogy conference, and it is going to be really interesting and awesome! Part of me sincerely wonders what I can possibly learn from this conference. Putting it like that sounds really snotty; I assure you, I’m painfully aware of my…
Motivation Monday: RootsTech thoughts, plans, dreams, fears, etc.
I will be going to RootsTech 2017 in a little over one week for the first time in my life. I have never done this before, though we used to live in Utah. But we had the excuse of being poor students. In 2009 I was working as a teacher at BYU StarTalk Arabic, the second…