ROOTS TECH Virtual Conference is FREE this year!

 

If you are interested in genealogy and how you can progress your research at home using your computer, this is a great conference for you!  This year, everything can be viewed from the comfort of your own home at NO cost. 

The conference will run from February 25 - 27, and you must register.  Registration is so easy by just visiting this website :

RootsTech Connect 2021 Registration

The keynote speakers are diverse and unique, each bringing an element of family history into their tale.

-Lorena Ochoa was born on November 15 in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. She is an athlete, mother, entrepreneur, and unbreakable promoter of golf in Mexico. She was the best player in the world for 157 consecutive weeks (April 2007–April 2010)

-Born in 1964 in Barletta, Italy, Francesco Lotoro is a pianist, composer, and conductor in addition to being a piano professor at the “U. Giordano” Music Conservatory, in Foggia. He obtained his piano diploma at the “N. Piccinni” Music Conservatory in Bari, then continued his piano studies with Kornel Zempleny and Laszlo Almasy at the “F. Liszt” Music Academy in Budapest, and he fine-tuned his studies with Viktor Merzhanov, Tamas Vasary, and Aldo Ciccolini.

-Sharon Leslie Morgan is a writer and genealogist. She is the founder of Our Black Ancestry (OBA), an online community dedicated to providing resources for African American genealogical research, preserving historical materials and properties, and promoting healing of wounds that are the legacy of slavery. OBA is a partner with FamilySearch on the ROAR (Reclaiming Our African Roots) project.

-International motivational speaker and New York Times best-selling author Nick Vujicic was born in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. Without any medical explanation or warning, Nick came into the world with neither arms nor legs. Throughout his childhood, Nick dealt with the challenges of school and adolescence, such as bullying, self-esteem issues, depression, and loneliness, as he questioned why he was different from all the other kids.

-Sunetra first came to prominence as a teenager, playing Nisha Batra in Channel Four’s cult soap Brookside. Over the ensuing three decades she has become a BAFTA member and a stalwart of British television, appearing in regular roles in No Angels for Channel Four, in Informer for BBC/Amazon Prime, in Safe House for ITV, and as Dr. Zoe Hanna in BBC 1’s Casualty for nearly a decade. Recently, she filmed a new role in the second series of The Bay for ITV, airing in late 2020 and early 2021, and can be seen in the latest series of Cold Feet, also for ITV. She has won much praise for her pioneering role of Kaneez in Channel Four’s hit drama Ackley Bridge and is currently filming the fourth series.

-Diego Alfredo Lugano Morena is an Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a central defender.  Nicknamed “Tota,” Lugano played for a number of clubs in South America and Europe, including Plaza Colonia, Club Nacional de Football, São Paulo, Fenerbahçe, Paris Saint-Germain, Málaga, and West Bromwich Albion, before finishing his career with a second spell at Brazilian club São Paulo, where he now works as an administrator.

- Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley University in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, she moved with her parents and siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was 2 years old, her parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children.

-Erick Avari has consistently turned in finely crafted performances, from grand opera to soap opera, with stops on and off Broadway and regional theaters and in some of the highest-grossing films in Hollywood, hit television series, and award-winning independent films.