My Moynahan Genealogy Blog: Hashtag #NotAtRootsTech 2020

Roots Tech 2020 starts in a couple of days (Feb 26-29) and I won a FREE four-day pass to attend!

Road to RootsTech

Announcement: https://daviesofmold.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/and-the-winner-is/)

I won the four-day pass from London (UK) Archaeologist/genealogist Carole Steers who is a

2020 RootsTech Ambassador

RootsTech Ambassador: Carole Steers: https://twitter.com/LazyLoverUK

RootsTech Ambassadors are individuals who help to build awareness of the RootsTech conference, spread and disseminate content, and amplify the RootsTech experience.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City: Creative Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salt-Lake-City.jpg

The Conference is held in Salt Lake City. ( Last year it was in London England.)

Salt Lake City, Utah has always been on my bucket list since the 1980s when I started researching my family history at a local CLDS office in Mississauga on microfiche. I learned that the Mormons had been saving genealogical records in a mountain there since 1965!
Video here: https://www.familysearch.org/records/archives/web/about-granite-mountain/

Granite Mountain Vault : https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/granite-mountain-records-vault

I had to gratefully decline the FREE four-day pass for personal reasons .... grateful for Carole who boarded her flight in the UK yesterday and she told me that there’s a hashtag on twitter and said “make sure you follow #NotAtRootsTech too”