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Elder Gerrit W. Gong Apostles and Sister Susan L. Gong speak at RootsTech’s Family Discovery Day from the islands of Hawaii.
RootsTech 2023 Family Discovery Day will feature keynote by Elder and Sister Gong
By Trent Toone
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Susan Gong, will be the featured keynote speakers at RootsTech 2023 Family Discovery Day.
Irene Caso films a segment in Spanish for RootsTech 2023.
Why FamilySearch is incorporating localized ‘sideline reporters’ into RootsTech 2023
By Trent Toone
RootsTech 2023 will feature 15 emcees who will act like sideline reporters for its online audience and provide localized content and guidance for different areas of the world.
Jordin Sparks, American Idol Season 6 winner, will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2023.
This former American Idol winner will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2023
By Trent Toone
Jordin Sparks, a multi-platinum recording artist, American Idol Season 6 winner and actress, will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2023.
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FamilySearch announces new name for Family History Library. Here’s why
By Sydney Walker
“The name changes will better align local centers with FamilySearch’s expanding global brand,” according to the FamilySearch news release.
FamilySearch will provide new features in 2023.
What Latter-day Saints can expect from FamilySearch and the Family Tree app in 2023
By Trent Toone
Along with RootsTech 2023, FamilySearch patrons can expect free access to more of the world’s genealogy records, new search capabilities, more technological innovations and new Family Tree App features.
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Why Latter-day Saints were invited to host a booth at the Sikh festival in Yuba City
By Sydney Walker
The Sikh festival in Yuba City attracts an estimated 100,000 people and is considered to be one of the largest gatherings of Sikhs outside India.
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5 ways to add family history to the Thanksgiving menu
By Sydney Walker
Read five suggestions from FamilySearch for incorporating family history into your Thanksgiving festivities.
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RootsTech Live: Meet speakers around the world
By Sydney Walker
Watch a 25-minute video with RootsTech speakers about learning opportunities at next year’s event.
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How do I register for RootsTech 2023?
By Sydney Walker
The RootsTech team participated in live Q&A on Facebook on Oct. 21 about registration options for RootsTech 2023. The three-day event will offer both in-person and virtual experiences.
RootsTech attendees fill the expo hall in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.
Registration for RootsTech 2023 now open
By Sydney Walker
RootsTech 2023 will be held March 2-4, with both in-person and virtual experiences. Registration is now open.
Members of the RootsTech team — Jen Allen, middle, Jonathan Wing, left, and Brandon Beckstead, right.
What will RootsTech 2023 look like? RootsTech team participates in live Q&A
By Sydney Walker
The three-day global family history gathering will be held March 2-4, 2023, with both in-person and virtual experiences.
Youth in the Midland Michigan Stake do family history work on a computer.
What a Michigan stake is doing to ‘Map the Mitten’ by building the FamilySearch Family Tree
By Sydney Walker
Midland Michigan Stake works with BYU Recording Linking Lab to add new sources and individuals to FamilySearch.
A family in Japan looks a photographs together.
25-plus tools to make family history simple and fun
By Sydney Walker
A BYU Education Week presentation highlighted tools to help with one’s personal history, family history and genealogical records.
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See your ancestor’s ‘journey of faith’ with new FamilySearch discovery experience
By Sydney Walker
Journey of Faith includes records from 9 collections — the first time FamilySearch has pulled this many Church databases into one place.
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Cousin connection: ‘DNA Journey’ links 5 siblings with Olympic medalist, British celebrity and Emmy-winning entertainer
By Scott Taylor
Five Latter-day Saint siblings are fourth cousins to the award-winning ice dancer, who met for the first time relatives from his mother’s side of the family.
FamilySearch hosts a booth at the 26th Bienal Internacional do Livro de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest book fair, at Expo Center Norte in São Paulo, July 2-10, 2022.
FamilySearch hosts booth at popular São Paulo international book fair
By Sydney Walker
Honorary Consul Victorino R. Floro, Jr. is given the Family Values Award by the Philippines Area Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the MTC Activity Center, in White Plains, Quezon City.
Family matters: Family Values Award given to honorary consul in the Philippines
By Capri Garff
The Idaho Falls FamilySearch Center is located in a renovated Latter-day Saint meetinghouse near the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple.
Look inside the renovated Idaho Falls FamilySearch Center
By Sydney Walker
Youth from northern California and missionaries from the California Roseville Mission pose for a photo during an area youth indexathon in Yuba City, California. The event was held April 23 and May 7, 2022, and nearly 800 youth participated.
800 youth in northern California participate in ‘indexathon’ for 1950 U.S. Census
By Sydney Walker
RootsTech attendees fill the expo hall in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.
FamilySearch announces RootsTech 2023 will be virtual and in person
By Sydney Walker
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Connecting with ancestors, honoring military members on Memorial Day
By Mary Richards
Dale Adams poses for a portrait in front of his computer at his house in Park City on Monday, March 14, 2022.
Music & the Spoken Word: To remember and be remembered
By Church News Archives
The FamilySearch website has a map that shows the progress of the three review tasks for creating the 1950 U.S. census digital index. This is the progress as of May 23, 2022.
How many names in the 1950 U.S. census have been reviewed? Plus, how to help
By Christine Rappleye
Lynn Turner, assistant director of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family History Library, shows where glass walls will create meeting spaces and where lounge furniture will offer a place to rest at library in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
FamilySearch announces new director for the Family History Library
By Christine Rappleye
FamilySearch and Ancestry are partnering to digitize the 1950 U.S. census. The census was released on April 1, 2022.
The 1950 U.S. census will be released on April 1. What to do now to prepare to help create the digital index
By Christine Rappleye
Sheikh Salem bin Sultan bin Saqr Al-Qasimi speaks at a FamilySearch event in Dubai on March 3, 2022.
FamilySearch, RootsTech events part of WorldExpo in Dubai
By Christine Rappleye
Aaliyah Rose sings during the RootsTech 2022 “Choose Connection” video shared during the opening session on Thursday, March 3, 2022.
RootsTech 2022 reached millions — and it’s simply the premiere
By Christine Rappleye
Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Rosana Soares, during a segment of the Family Discovery Day broadcast that was filmed in Brazil. It was shown on Saturday, March 5, 2022.
Elder and Sister Soares share family and spiritual roots in Brazil during Family Discovery Day
By Christine Rappleye
FamilySearch’s Get Involved volunteer experience can be accessed in a new mobile app and on FamilySearch.org.
FamilySearch’s new Get Involved app allows you to do simple family history tasks in seconds
By Sydney Walker
RootsTech Connect 2022 featured seven international speakers, shown in this combination image. They are, clockwise from top left, French American baker Apollonia Poilâne. Argentine singer Diego Torres, Palestinian comedian Maysoon Zayid, African boxing champion Azumah Nelson, Food Network’s Molly Yeh, “Stranger Things” actor Matthew Modine and Brazilian actress Thaís Pacholek
7 messages from RootsTech 2022 keynote speakers: ‘Each of us can connect in our own way’
By Christine Rappleye