Notes from RootsTech London
1,600 people work for Ancestry.
The company will have a focus during 2020 on records related to the 75th anniversary of WW2.
Ancestry is working hard on records from continental Europe, many of which have been digitized by the respective national archives and which they will index.
In France the archives is opening up to online availability and indexing is underway.
FamilySearch has a centre for coordinating their European digitization in Germany.
Just as there is a market for people watching experts play video games - e-Sports, maybe there's a market for genealogists watching expert genealogists do genealogy online.
At Findmypast the focus is on digitization of the 1921 census of England and Wales, to become available in January 1922. One person involved mentioned seeing a return with a comment/complaint written on the return about the treatment of returned soldiers.
Deceased Online has been in something of a hiatus re new cemeteries while work has been ongoing on the database software. Expect a Leicester cemetery to come online imminently. A major Lancashire cemetery with relatively few markers, lots of pauper burials, will become available near the end of the year.
Speakers at RootsTech London whose presentations I hadn't attended before, and I'd like to hear again, are Jonny Perl and Dave Annal. There were several others I have heard before. None of the presentations I attended were anything but first class including Colin Chapman who revealed he has been doing family history for 70 years. Can anyone beat that?
Expect more posts with info from RootsTech London later in the week.
1 comment:
If you can fit it in, don't miss the presentation by my colleagues Janet Few and Chris Braund. They make genealogy fun as well as educational.
While I applaud all the digitization, I wish they would concentrate on earlier records. These are the basis if all family trees.
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