Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your RootsTech 2025 Plans

 From Randy (my cousin) over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1)  'Twas the week before RootsTech 2025, and all through the house, the genealogists were checking their RootsTech schedule.  What classes are you looking forward to watching online (for FREE) or attending in-person?

2) Tell us about your plans for RootsTech 2025 in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

Earlier this week, I picked out 22 classes to watch online during RootsTech, which is Thursday, March 6 through Saturday, March 8, 2025.  That is 9 classes on Thursday, 10 classes on Friday, and 4 classes on Saturday.  RootsTech holds classes almost 24 hours a day during the conference! I have already warned my mother that I will be locked in my office for three days and will only come out to eat, sleep and feed my cats.  

I did sign up for three AI classes (all times are ET):

(1)  Thursday, 6:30 pm - Learn Genealogy Faster and Easier with Artificial Intelligence.  This class is for beginners, which I am a beginner with AI.

(2)  Thursday, 9:15 pm - How Can Artificial Intelligence Assist Family Historians

(3) Saturday, 11:30 am - AI-Powered Transcription of Handwritten Documents: Tools and Techniques

I also signed up for three Census-related classes:

(1) Thursday, 8 a.m. - Mining the Census, Are you Finding Every Clue? Part I 

(2) Thursday, 9 a.m. - Mining the Census, Are You Finding Every Clue? Part 2

(3) Friday, 2:15 p.m. - A Deep Dive into the US Census Records

The rest of my classes pertain to DNA (2 classes), sources, and just general research.  

My head will be reeling after all of that.  The great thing is that any I fall asleep during or can't fit into my schedule will be be available on the RootsTech site after the conference.  

This is the only genealogy conference I get to attend since it is available online. I look forward to it every year, and I always learn something.  I have already taken advantage of "Relatives at RootsTech," which led me to extend some of my lines back a couple of generations and helped me touch base with a cousin I haven't met yet.  Now we are making plans to meet and visit cemeteries.  That's always a good time to me!