
I attended the "DNA Panel on How is it Redefining our Industry?" with Scott Fisher, Diahan Southard and Judy Russell. The Grand Challenges mentioned included Finding research opportunities, maintaining research logs, using collaborative tools and exploring analytics.Ĥ) At 11:30 a.m. Other projects include evaluating tree quality, visualizing historical maps, automatic indexing of obituaries, semi-automated transcription, and binarization of historical documents. The Current Work projects include AncestorCloud, Goze to record memories, Pass it Down (a storytelling app), and Wiithu (a private family network), Kid Chatteroo (recording your children), and Studio by Legacy Republic. Other success stories turned into Relative Finder, handwriting recognition and the digital microfilm project used by FamilySearch. By color coding ancestor information, and using a fan chart, a user can see where quality information is lacking in their tree.

The Success Stories they described include a 20 minute Genealogy Project to visualize information in a family tree. This lab is the incubator for some of the FamilySearch partner apps and programs. Their talk focused on three things - Success stories, Current work, and Grand challenges in the BYU technology lab. ģ) At 10:15 a.m., I attended the session on the BYU Family History Technology with speakers Bill Barrett and Daniel Zappala. You can watch this talk on YouTube - see. I didn't make notes on this.probably should have but read email and blogs instead.
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He provided his own experiences in building sales and markets, and advice on how to do it. * Ken Krogue was the second speaker, he was the founder of. Steve Rockwood, the CEO of FamilySearch talked about his entrepreneurial days and then noted that there are five types of family history experiences - discovery of family relationships, building a family tree, searching for and finding records, capturing and sharing memories, and using contextual help to learn more about history, geography, relatives, and more. and about 500 folks or more filed in and sat down for the Innovator Summit keynote talks. 2) The doors to Ballroom B opened just before 9 a.m.
