{"id":559,"date":"2011-11-19T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/winner-rootstech-2012-registration\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:14:20","slug":"winner-rootstech-2012-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/winner-rootstech-2012-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner! RootsTech 2012 Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" I am very pleased to announce Doug Williams as the winner of the RootsTech 2012<\/a> free registration giveaway<\/a> that was hosted here on GenBlog.\u00a0 I asked entrants to answer the following question:\u00a0 Besides access to records online, what one tech-thing has helped you the most with your genealogy research and how has it helped you?<\/em><\/p>\n

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There were some great responses and I even learned a few things that sparked some of my own ideas.\u00a0 I will share a few of the responses within the next few days.\u00a0 But here is Doug\u2019s answer:<\/p>\n

My Motorola Xoom is my favorite new research tool. I use it when I go to a repository instead of lugging along my heavy older 17″ laptop computer. The Xoom is great for taking pictures of book pages, microfilm reader screens, and spines of multi-volume books on the shelf. I use the wireless connection to access Google Docs where I transcribe information and access research logs. I’m transcribing the church records of a German Lutheran congregation in Western New York where 4 generations of my family attended, and when I’m having trouble reading the German script and the handwriting I use the camera to zoom in and help decipher the information. I shoot the pic, zoom in, and when I’m done with the problem text I simply delete the photo.\u00a0\u00a0 The next app I need to download is Families so I can bring along my Legacy Family Tree!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have not investigated tablets in a long time (since they first came out and the company I worked for was evaluating them).\u00a0 But after reading Doug\u2019s response, I think I\u2019m going to explore them again.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Doug!!\u00a0 Look forward to seeing you in SLC in February!<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t forget, you can still register for <\/strong>RootsTech 2012<\/strong><\/a>, and if you register by November 30, 2011, you\u2019ll save $60 on the full-conference registration fee, so don\u2019t delay\u2026head over and <\/strong>register now<\/strong><\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I am very pleased to announce Doug Williams as the winner of the RootsTech 2012 free registration giveaway that was hosted here on GenBlog.\u00a0 I asked entrants to answer the following question:\u00a0 Besides access to records online, what one tech-thing has helped you the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[357,25,356,39,360,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-genblog","category-news","category-news-events","category-rootstech","category-technology-genblog","cat-357-id","cat-25-id","cat-356-id","cat-39-id","cat-360-id","cat-29-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-91","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}