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The global family discovery event RootsTech is underway in Salt Lake City and online at RootsTech.org. It will run through March 8, 2025.
“Our ultimate goal is to simply unite families — past, present and future,” said Steve Rockwood, president and CEO of RootsTech sponsor FamilySearch, an international genealogy organization and popular website sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Speaking to news media on the morning of Thursday, March 6, 2025, in the Salt Palace Convention Center, Rockwood noted the “amazing thing” that happens when we find ways we are connected. “We’ve learned, as you have all learned, when we find out how we’re connected, we then treat each other differently,” Rockwood said. “You’re going to feel that and see that throughout the conference.”
The theme of RootsTech 2025 is “Discover,” which points to the potential of new technologies.
“[Genealogical technology is] something that’s happened in a significant manner in the last 100 years and now is at an accelerant pace in just the last 10 years,” Rockwood said. “Last year, we saw incredible potential of what generative artificial intelligence (AI) can do to accelerate this work of allowing people to discover who they are. This year, it’s not just buzz. You’re going to see actual applications. You’re going to see how it’s accelerating the work in the back office that you and I usually don’t see and how it’s allowing us to take these incredible records, oral or written, and digitize them and make them searchable and deliver them to individuals.”
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