Welcome back to our podcast! It's been a while since we last caught up. Trisha and I share our adventures and experiences with you. Join us in this exciting episode as we take you on a journey through everything that's happened in our lives since our last episode.

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Back in March 2023, Phillip and Trisha attended the largest family history conference in the world. RootsTech in Salt Lake City, UT.

We had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Sunny Morton. Sunny is an internationally-known genealogy speaker and award-winning writer and editor. She is a longtime Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine; Contributing Editor and Content Manager for YourDNAGuide.com; frequent contributor to FamilySearch’s blog; and past Editor of Ohio Genealogy News.

To connect with Sunny:
Website: https://www.sunnymorton.com/ 
https://www.yourdnaguide.com/
https://familytreemagazine.com/

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Back in March 2023, Phillip and Trisha attended the largest family history conference in the world. RootsTech in Salt Lake City, UT.

We had the wonderful opportunity to speak with our new friend Janice Cross-Gilyard. Janice is the President of the New Jersey Chapter of the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society. She's also the co-host of her own podcast "Speak On It: History and Genealogy Conversations with Janice & Cherekana.

To connect with Janice:
Website: https://www.jcg-genealogycollective.com/ 
Podcast: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/speakonitjancher

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We talk about our experience and some of the things we participated in during the 2023 RootsTech genealogy and family history conference.

We hope this video will encourage you to attend RootsTech in person in 2024. The conference will be held 2/29 - 3/2 in Salt Lake City, UT. If you can't go in person, there will be a virtual option.

Don't forget, there are tons of classes from 2023 still available on rootstech.org There are also classes going back to 2020. Go on the site and build your playlist.

Follow us on all of our social media channels. We look forward to hearing from you.

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It's Women's History Month and we are excited and proud to talk about a few women in our lives that we want to celebrate.

Thanks for listening. 

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We are proud to celebrate Black History 365. In this episode, we talk about a couple of people in our family that we consider black history.

Below are the links to our YouTube videos on Dr. Ralph Cummings.

Cleaning his cemetery headstone
https://youtu.be/X91WDPQ050Y

SURPRISE! I found my grandfather and great-grandfather
https://youtu.be/h8bIfO9aDsw

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Now that RootsTech has ended, we talk about our first thoughts on the conference overall and how we felt about how everything went down.

A more in-depth podcast about the conference will be coming soon, so make sure you follow us so you'll know when the next podcast is published.

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Phillip and Trisha discuss tips and tricks to help you navigate the largest genealogy conference in the world. These tips are great for the first-time attendee of the conference and even those who may have been before but haven't been in a while.

As you navigate your way through the conference, use your social media and utilize the hashtags shown below.

#rootstech2023

#unitingfamilies

#notatrootstech

If you'll be there look out for us. We can't wait to meet you.

To see some tips from previous conferences click the links below.
Podcast:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/42aGiWSeg78 & https://youtu.be/p31QQFk-mSw

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tips-for-rootstech-2020-genealogy-and-ancestry-conference/id1247333259?i=1000466219372

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If you've ever wanted to go to RootsTech, here's a perfect opportunity to win a free pass to the 2023 in-person conference.

To enter, click the link below and answer the questions in the form. You have until 11:59 pm CST on January 25th to enter. A winner will be randomly chosen on January 26th. We will contact you via email. You MUST reply to my email to verify you can attend by January 27th.

We will announce the winner on all of our social media pages.

ENTER HERE: https://forms.gle/vPQ5gu6nKVgz3F1V6

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In this episode, we went on a Genealogy road trip to clean some of our family's headstones. We share what's in our headstone cleaning kit and give you some tips on how to clean headstones.

To learn more about the cleaner we used (D/2 Biological Solution) visit https://d2bio.com/index.html

To watch the episode where we show our trip and how we actually cleaned the headstones, it's here. You'll also see before and after photos of what we cleaned. Prepare to be amazed. https://youtu.be/X91WDPQ050Y

Music by: Third House Productions https://thirdhouseprod.bandcamp.com/

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