Welcome to our RootsTech Connect page at the Family Connections Experiment! We’re excited to have you join our community. We invite you to join us at our incredible CONNECTION EVENTS at RootsTech Connect, LEARN MORE about the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment and the power of connection, and also to ENJOY our latest tools for connecting more with family past and present, and with our incredible community!
Find Us at RootsTech Connect with these Quick Links
- Power of Connections Series
- Innovation Portal
- Let’s Do Good Together
- Chat Room – Link coming soon
Stay Informed
There will be a lot going on over the next few weeks in preparation for RootsTech Connect. Sign-up for our text reminders or email list to get the most out of your RootsTech Connect experience, stay informed about the latest, get early access and sneak previews to content and events, and get our How-To Survive RootsTech Connect Guide!
Upcoming events
- RootsTech Connect: Feb 25th – 28th
- Thursday, Feb. 25th
- 11 AM – 2 PM MST: Power of Connection Series Premiere Live Watch Party
- Friday, Feb 26th
- 10 AM MST: Watch Party with Taralyn Parker
- 12 PM MST: Twitter Party
- 2 PM MST: Desktop Diner
- 5 PM MST: Watch Party with Sarah Day
- Saturday, Feb 27th
- 10 AM MST: Sydney Walker Live Q&A
- 11 AM MST: Psychological Benefits of Family History Discussion
- 2 PM MST RootsTech Connect After Party
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Experience the power of connection
cONNECTION TOOLS
The Family Connections Experiment is excited to be invited to participate at RootsTech Connect in the Innovator Portal. During RootsTech Connect we will be releasing new tools, and we invite you to try them first. Enjoy these and our other awesome tools for helping you enjoy your RootsTech Connect experience. Let us know what you think in our form below.
Connection Idea Generator
Want a quick and easy way to connect today? Click below for a 5 minute idea that will help you connect with family past and present. We’re regularly adding new ideas so be sure to come back often.
Speed interviews
Use this interview generator to do an interview in five minutes or less!
make my meme
Connect by creating a shareable fun memes made with your memories and photos!
Speed interviews
Use this interview generator to do an interview in five minutes or less!
make my meme
Connect by creating a shareable fun meme made with your memories and photos!
Connection Events
We have a wide variety of opportunities for connecting with new friends, getting the most out of RootsTech Connect, and learning more about the power of connection. Watch our recorded events to learn more about us and become part of our community. Plus NEW THIS YEAR! Join us for our live Twitter Chats.
TWITTER CHATS
Do you miss chatting with new/old friends during RootsTech? Join us for a BRAND NEW way to connect! We are hosting Twitter chats March 2-5 where we all watch the same class on RootsTech.org and tweet about it LIVE! Select presenters will even be joining us to answer questions! Be sure you are following us @21DayConnect and using the #21DayExperiment to participate.
THURSDAY
9 PM MST
Researching in the Southwestern United States Series
Sarah Day
FRIDAY
6 PM MST
Searching for Close Relatives with Your DNA Results
Mckell Keeney
FRIDAY
7 PM MST
No Time? Try These 5 Minute Family History Ideas!
Taralyn Parker
SATURDAY
11 AM MST
Let’s Do Good Together: Ways to Give Back Through Family History
Taralyn Parker
SATURDAY
1 PM MST
Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in an Online World
Lynn Broderick
Live Chat Rooms
Thursday, February 27th – Saturday, February 29th
During the whole conference we’ll be available in chat rooms across the RootsTech platform in all of our classes as well as the Innovation Portal, the Let’s Do Good Together booth, and everywhere you can find the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment. You can also find us on all of our usual social media platforms too.
21 Day Family Connections Experiment
Power of Connection Series Premiere
See recorded event:
You’ve heard all about it, now watch the premiere, the incredible Power of Connection series at RootsTech Connect. This incredible series of videos built to help you discover more about the science of connection. During this Live Watch Party on our social channels you’ll get to learn fun facts about the instructors, ask questions along the way, and even participate in a Live Q&A at the end with all 5 instructors.
Watch Party with Taralyn Parker
See recorded event:
Finding Your Cousins on Instagram
Join Taralyn for a live watch party and learn how to find your cousins using Instagram. You’ll have the opportunity to enjoy connecting with Taralyn and other participants during this event and even ask questions during her live Q&A following the class.
Twitter Party
See our past posts:
Join us for this special RootsTech Edition of our monthly Twitter Party. We are teaming up with co-hosts from some of genealogy’s top Twitter parties. There will be giveaways, tech tips, Rootstech chats, and a sneak peek into our March experiment.
Desktop Diner +Presenter Meet & Greet
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Join our one-of-a-kind connection event! You’ll have the opportunity to connect with other participants, chat with others about your RootsTech Connect experience, and BEST of ALL, connect with presenters from RootsTech live and face-to-face. Space is limited so register now.
Watch Party with Sarah Day
See recorded event:
Press the Button! Nothing Terrible will Happen!
Come and join Sarah Day for a watch party for her RootsTech Class “Press The Button! Nothing Terrible Will Happen! It will be a fun class about what various buttons on familysearch and ancestry do and why you should just press the button and see what happens. You can get your questions answered live and connect with others. Come and Join us!
Live Q&A with Sydney Walker
See recorded event:
COMING SOON
RootsTech Connect After Party
See recorded event:
As the conference event comes to an end on Saturday, we decided we want to take the opportunity to connect one last time! Come join us for this incredible connections event full of fun hosts, games, giveaways, and, most importantly, the answers to WHAT’S NEXT. It’s a can’t-miss end to a week of incredible conference experiences.
Psychological Benefits of Family History Discussion
Saturday, February 27th, 11 AM | Time Zone Converter
We’ve been invited to facilitate a live discussion with participants, leaders in the industry, and experts exploring the psychological benefits of family history. Come join in the discussion, share your thoughts, ask your questions, and hear from experts.
RootsTech is a dream for any modern genealogist. . . where incredible discoveries are a guarantee.
Learn More
The 21 Day Family Connections Experiment has partnered with RootsTech Connect to bring you a whole series of classes dedicated to exploring the benefits of connecting more with family past and present called the Power of Connection series. Learn more about that series, the experiment, and how you can
Power of Connection Series
Inspired by the discoveries and experiences of both volunteers and participants from the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment. The Power of Connections class series draws upon the expertise of scholars, therapists, and practitioners, as well as individuals like you who have had personal experience with this power.
We’ve partnered with RootsTech Connect to bring you 6 classes to help you better understand these benefits.
21 Day Family Connections Experiment
Experiment Results
We’ve compiled results from our past experiments. See the changes participants have experienced in mood, and appreciation for the families past and present.
Classes with Our Team
Our team is full of incredible teachers and a few of us had the opportunity to prepare classes for RootsTech Connect this year, see our classes here.
Taralyn Parker is a journalist turned family historian who runs the blog Keep Moving Forward With Me . During the covid-19 crisis, she helped create the 21-day Family Connections Experiment: a Family History Project. Whether she is teaching classes or traveling to ancestors’ hometowns, Taralyn is passionate about sharing family history and stories.
Working in the industry for 10+ years, Taralyn manages social media for various companies and organizations. She loves using her talents to help share goodness. Taralyn, her husband John, and their four children enjoy living the small-town life.
Sarah is currently an 11th-grade high school student in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been doing genealogy and family history work since she was 11. She is the app developer, blog manager, and experiment benefits team manager for the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment. Sarah currently serves as a family history consultant in her church community or ward for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; a volunteer assignment she has held for the last three years. Some of the genealogical work she has done has been in the areas of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. She is currently working towards receiving the Accredited Genealogist Credential from ICAPGen specializing in the Southwest region of the United States.
Olivia is the founder of the Family Connections Experiment, a project focused on connecting families past and present and measuring the psychological benefits of increasing those connections. She’s also a professional presenter for genealogy and other educational conferences and the director of her local family history center. Amidst her busy schedule, she has learned to use her technological savvy and experience to teach busy people of all ages simple ways they can incorporate family history into daily life using modern technology to make it easy and fun.
Devin Ashby is a global outreach manager for FamilySearch. Devin has taught family history for years and has over 300,000 online views. In 2004, he received bachelor’s degrees in history and Spanish and the following year earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.
For more presentations go here:
https://familytreewebinars.com/devinashby
Taralyn Parker
Taralyn Parker is a journalist turned family historian who runs the blog Keep Moving Forward With Me . During the covid-19 crisis, she helped create the 21-day Family Connections Experiment: a Family History Project. Whether she is teaching classes or traveling to ancestors’ hometowns, Taralyn is passionate about sharing family history and stories.
Working in the industry for 10+ years, Taralyn manages social media for various companies and organizations. She loves using her talents to help share goodness. Taralyn, her husband John, and their four children enjoy living the small-town life.
Sarah Day
Sarah is currently an 11th-grade high school student in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been doing genealogy and family history work since she was 11. She is the app developer, blog manager, and experiment benefits team manager for the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment. Sarah currently serves as a family history consultant in her church community or ward for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; a volunteer assignment she has held for the last three years. Some of the genealogical work she has done has been in the areas of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. She is currently working towards receiving the Accredited Genealogist Credential from ICAPGen specializing in the Southwest region of the United States.
Olivia Jewell
Olivia is the founder of the Family Connections Experiment, a project focused on connecting families past and present and measuring the psychological benefits of increasing those connections. She’s also a professional presenter for genealogy and other educational conferences and the director of her local family history center. Amidst her busy schedule, she has learned to use her technological savvy and experience to teach busy people of all ages simple ways they can incorporate family history into daily life using modern technology to make it easy and fun.
Devin Ashby
Devin Ashby is a global outreach manager for FamilySearch. Devin has taught family history for years and has over 300,000 online views. In 2004, he received bachelor’s degrees in history and Spanish and the following year earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.
For more presentations go here:
https://familytreewebinars.com/devinashby
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