More than 200,000 family historians from around the world have registered for the first virtual RootsTech Connect (rootstech.org), which takes place on 25–27 February.
First established in 1998, RootsTech is an annual family history conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a European event held in London in October 2019. FamilySearch, which runs RootsTech, announced in September that the 2021 event would be free, virtual and global in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
At the time of writing, 205,281 people from 201 different countries have signed up to attend, with 88 per cent saying that it is their first RootsTech experience.
Genetic-genealogy expert Debbie Kennett, a regular contributor to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine (see page 24), will deliver a talk at RootsTech Connect. She said: “It…