Everyone has a different RootsTech experience. Online, in each of the 63 time slots on the three main days, there was a choice of 208 sessions to attend (or not to attend). Believe it or not, that’s 3.67 × 10³⁸ possible conference experiences.
Here are the sessions I attended:
– FamilySearch Global Tech Forum 2026, with Robby Parker, Ian James and
Michelle Barber
-Finding and Accessing French Archives Online, by Sean Daly
– What’s New at Ancestry®, by Crista Cowan
– Delving Deeper into your family history: What’s new at Findmypast? by Jen Baldwin
– Genealogy, Upgraded: AI and Smart Tools on MyHeritage, by Daniel Horowitz
– FamilySearch Full-Text Search – Your Golden Path to Ancestral Discovery, by David Ouimette
– AI & Family History: Foundations & First Steps: Mastering AI Basics for Genealogy, by Steve Little
– Victorians to Elizabethans: British research in the twentieth century, by
Janet Few
– The Future of AI in Genealogy, with Dave Vance, David Ouimette, Diana Elder, Mark Thompson, Steve Little.
There wasn’t a dud presentation among them. New to me were Sean Daly, helpful for me in following a newly found French event, and David Ouimette with a plethora of Full-Text Search mini-case studies.
Ancestry and MyHeritage went heavy on AI. Findmypast, while far from ignoring it, gave greater attention to new resources, especially newspapers.