RootsTech will be all virtual and FREE again beginning March 3, 2022. Registration is now open by visiting here. There are over 1,500 sessions being offered across nine categories. You can even search by language! Planners of RootsTech are saying that they want to take connecting with other participants to the next level this year,…
History and Location Located on the grounds of Poquonock School, 1760 Poquonock Ave, Windsor, CT 06095. Poquonock School is a K-2 school. The monument was originally dedicated in 1954 to recognize the men from the Poquonock section of Windsor who lost their lives in World War II and the Korean Conflict. The plaque on…
My grandmother, Jeanette Shrum Willett, left us a wonderful handwritten manuscript of her life which she wrote in the mid-1980s. She was born August 4, 1897, in Bloomington, Indiana, and died March 3, 1988, in Salem, Massachusetts. I have been transcribing her manuscript here. You can start from the beginning with Part 1. My brother…
Every genealogist has some kind of specialty. It might be Civil War history, Eastern European ancestry, or even DNA. I’ve met a lot of fellow genealogists during my 30 years of researching my family history. But meeting Nathan Dylan Goodwin at RootsTech a few years ago felt like an entirely different thing. Nathan had broken into the…
You can always count on MyHeritage to make a BIG announcement at RootsTech. This year they did not disappoint. On Thursday during RootsTech Connect, MyHeritage announced the release of their latest feature for historical photos, Deep Nostalgia™. Deep Nostalgia™ animates the faces in still photos and produces a realistic depiction of how a person could…
Normally at this time of year, I would be in Salt Lake City, Utah, ready for the start of my favorite conference, RootsTech. In 2020 RootsTech was literally the last big event I went to before the entire world shut down. I arrived back in Connecticut after RootsTech on March 1st in 2020 and by…