I love hearing and watching Joshua Taylor - he's a great speaker - very knowledgeable, but super funny. He told a story about how he used to steal cheese as a child, and later learned that one of his ancestors had been transported to Australia for theft...... of cheese.
Next - Laura Bush gave a phenomenal presentation about family and life in the White House. I haven't heard her speak before - she is funny, and terribly sarcastic. The audience was touched by her presentation, particularly the part the covered the events of September 11th.
My first break out what - 6 Things you Need to Know about Picture Sharing On Line. I had higher hopes for this class - it was more like being lectured too, and nothing other than common sense and warnings to be careful. Thanks - I knew that part - I'd like a little clarification here - its confusing!
Next - New Innovation at Ancestry: Better Research and Powerful Stories. I heard a little bit about the BETA going on with Ancestry during the Innovators Summit. I signed up for it. But I had not figured out yet how to get my account to actually show it. I read that this presentation was going to talk about some new things at Ancestry - including the BETA underway. This breakout did not disappoint! The presenter, Dan Lawyer, was funny and the session was very informative. During the presentation I figured out how to get into the BETA on my iPad and was able to follow along - and I must say - I LOVE IT. I spent most of the evening working in the BETA version of Ancestry - and I quickly got used to it - - - the links for FamilySearch are not yet in there - so once I needed to access that, I went back to the regular version.
Next up - AncestryDNA. Another phenomenal breakout - and this one was FULL. We were packed like sardines in here! One of the big reasons I wanted to go to this session was to learn more about "Circles" - how they were made, how they worked, and what you can do with them. I walked away with yet more ideas to research with DNA (some of which I was working on all evening!!)
Next - Genealogists, Technologists, Privacy Advocates: We Really Need to Talk! I was hoping this would be a better discussion about how to handle privacy concerns in genealogy (Can you right-click and copy those pictures? Put them on a blog?) Nope. This is definitely not what this session was about. The purpose of this session was for the presenters to push their position on some legislation that is being proposed regarding the SSDI. I can see both sides to this story - but I fear these guys are a little on the conspiracy theory side of things, and their efforts may damage the cause. Their focus is on one aspect of this case - and they are missing some really big points. Had it been a larger room, I would have slipped out - unfortunately - it was not possible to do without being really really obvious!
After that - I headed back to the hotel............. I passed this-which I thought was a parking meter - but turns out it's a clever way to donate money to help the homeless!
It's late - and I'm headed to bed! Final day tomorrow!!!
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