Speaker two was an improvement. Tim Sullivan had a balanced message about Ancestry.com, recognizing the shortfalls of some pedigrees submitted to the website, as well as admitting that the presence of these family trees is a valuable lesson in genealogy for all who use the website. He also made several breaking announcements you can hear in the archived version of the video. I won't rehash his entire talk here, since you can see it for yourself, but the main announcements were a new iOS app 4.1 for Ancestry on iPhone and iPad devices (he explained that 1/3 of users now arrive at the website via mobile devices), $99 DNA tests, $100 million to digitize documents over the next four years, and a collaboration with FamilySearch to digitize 140 million US Probate records. It was a great message, and the perfect place to break the great news to the genealogy community.
David Lambert from the New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Thomas MacEntee hosted a huge birthday party for himself at the Radisson, and it was a "Who's Who" of genealogy bloggers, genealogists and genealogy company representatives. Thomas was the Man of the Hour and everyone in attendance had a great time! We were sorry to leave early and crawl into bed (but not before posting this to my blog!)
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It was great watching your bit about the gadget bag. Someday I'll be able to start going to all these great conventions, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the photos! I'm glad to see what everyone looks like, having a great time!
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