My Colorful Ancestry 9-Year Anniversary

 It was 9 years ago today that I came up with an idea to color-code a 5-generational chart of my ancestors birth places. A viral social media movement ensued and the rest is history. Since then, several genealogy companies now include a form of that idea.

Here is a link to the original blog post that I wrote about it: BLOG POST

I was also recognized by the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) for this concept.

I made a t-shirt too! I wore it to several genealogy conferences over the years.

Since that time period, I thought I could come up with a ‘new’ tool to use, but I am not a coder and my ideas of somehow incorporating maps, time-periods, and people are too complex for me. Better leave that to the experts.

RootsTech 2025 ~ Virtual

This is a quick post to document the classes I attended during the RootsTech 2025 genealogy conference. I attended the conference virtually again this year, which makes this my 10th. time in a row. My only in-person was in 2012, 2013, and 2015.

Each year RootsTech calculates how many relatives you are related to through their FamilySearch Family Tree. This year I have 36,109! I can usually confirm whether they are related to me up to the 4th. cousin range. 

 Classes I attended each day.

 

I am hoping to attend next year’s conference in-person. It would be nice to drive up this time from San Diego and visit some canyon country wilderness areas. We’ll see!