{"id":87674,"date":"2015-02-17T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=87674"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:18:46","slug":"rootstech-2015-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/rootstech-2015-recap-87674.html","title":{"rendered":"RootsTech 2015 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing few days at RootsTech! This year saw the largest crowd ever with over 20,000 genealogists and family historians coming together for the largest genealogy conference in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/team.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/team-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"team\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/team-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/team.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>The Geni and MyHeritage teams together again<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful to be together again with our MyHeritage family, many of whom flew in from across the world!\u00a0With offices in Israel, Utah and California, it&#8217;s a rare treat to have\u00a0this many of us together in the same place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/booth.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/booth-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"booth\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/booth-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/booth-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/booth.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>Our crowded booth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To accommodate the large crowds, the expo hall was far more expansive than previous years.\u00a0We shared MyHeritage&#8217;s beautifully massive booth and the crowd did not die down for a moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/geni_user.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/geni_user.jpg\" alt=\"geni_user\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/geni_user.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/geni_user-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>Our\u00a0General Manager Mike Stangel helping a new user<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed introducing Geni to family history new comers as well as chatting with enthusiastic Geni users eager to share their love for the World Family Tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/curator.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/curator-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"curator\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/curator-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/curator-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/curator.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>Adam, Mike and Amanda out to dinner in Salt Lake City<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasure to see Geni Curator Adam Brown once again. We&#8217;re always happy to spend time with our hard working Curators whenever we can!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aj.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aj-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"aj\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aj-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aj-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aj.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>I&#8217;m AJ&#8217;s cousin!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were some fantastic keynote speakers this year. Mike Mallin, MyHeritage&#8217;s Chief Product Officer, presented the first keynote on day 1. He spoke about how MyHeritage&#8217;s powerful technologies work to bring family history to life for everyone around the world. On day 2, Former First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Laura-Bush-Welch-First-Lady\/296447164640001180\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Bush<\/a> gave us all insight into her famous family. Perhaps the largest crowd came on day 3, with special keynote speakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/A-J-Jacobs\/6000000011638429539\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Jacobs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Donny-Osmond\/307626858050003829\" target=\"_blank\">Donny Osmond<\/a>. AJ was funny as always and Donny treated the audience to a few tunes. Perhaps\u00a0AJ will invite <a href=\"http:\/\/geni.com\/HJP7F\" target=\"_blank\">cousin<\/a> Donny to the <a href=\"http:\/\/globalfamilyreunion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Family Reunion<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We had a blast at this year&#8217;s conference and we\u00a0look forward to seeing everyone again next year at RootsTech 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing few days at RootsTech! This year saw the largest crowd ever with over 20,000 genealogists and family historians coming together for the largest genealogy conference in the world. The Geni and MyHeritage teams together again It was wonderful to be together again with our MyHeritage family, many of whom flew in from across the world!\u00a0With offices in Israel, Utah and California, it&#8217;s a rare treat to have\u00a0this many of us together in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/rootstech-2015-recap-87674.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":87675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[6083,1941,951],"class_list":["post-87674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-aj-jacobs","tag-genealogy-conference","tag-rootstech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87674"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87693,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87674\/revisions\/87693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}