29 Feb 2924, Thursday

 29 Feb 2024, Thursday

Prioritized Daily Task

MIT weekend continuing in Heber

8:00 AM - Roots Tech 

I was up at 6:30 AM; prayer, showered, shaved, and got dressed.  Debbie got up and fixed breakfast and a lunch for us to take to Roots Tech.  We drove the Tesla and parked in Conference Parking at the Church.  We walked down to the Salt Palace, registered and at 8:00 am attended Five Tools for your AI Genealogy Toolbox, by Steve Little, AI Program Director, National Genealogical Society.

9:30 am, Around the World in 60 Minutes; What's new in Family Search Collection online webinar at rootstech.org

11:00 am, Roots Tech General Session 1; Henry Cho a comedian talked on Main Stage in Hall "E".

1:30 pm, Using A.I. Tools to Expand Your Research Universe Part 1: Chat and Search Tools by James Tanner, BYU Library History Center, 39 years Arizona trial attorney. Over 42 years in genealogical research.  Day 1 class is about Chat, tomorrow, day 2, will be Resumes, and Saturday, day 3 will be on imaging;   Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.             Following the law of accelerating returns, paradigm shift, also called innovation, turns the S curve of any specific paradigm into a continuing exponential.  Using databases such as Lexus can get personal information on any individuals, businesses, etc., such as their social security number, ID number, leases, traffic tickets, etc. for $5.  He talked about the storing of one thousand terabytes of data.  The life of any given drive today is about 5 years.  

2:30 pm - How mtDNA Can Solve Family Mysteries held in Ballroom "H" by Katy Rowe-Schurwanz, President and Owner of Family Tree DNA.  This is one of the companies I have used to test my DNA.

4:30 pm - Ethics in the Family History Community: Town Hall Discussion in Ballroom "G" by Lynn Broderick, The Single Leaf; David Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer Family Search; Robert Bristow, Bristow Genealogy; and Steve Little, AI Program Director, National Genealogical Society.

3:00 pm Genealogy's Secret Weapon:  How mtDNA Can Solve Family Mysteries

4:30 pm Ethics in The Family History Community: Town Hall Discussion

After the conference today we drove back home, had dinner, watched some TV, and had prayer together before going to bed.

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