Projectkin's Ride Along with Kyla Bayang » From Texas to Utah: Here She Comes 🚙 💨

Thank you to my guest today, Kyla Bayang of RootsquadRoundup 🤠, to all of you Bill Moore, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, MamaCarole, Jennifer Jones, Kathy Stone, Becky Hetchler, Linda Teather, Jane Chapman, Diane Burley, Barbara Foor Larson, Susanna Minton Graham, Dean Kirby, and so many others of you joining today from your homes and offices around the world.

I can’t tell you how much it means to us to see you join us from the cold of winter in Manchester, England, to the heat of summer in Bendigo, Australia. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this global community together. Were you there? Did I miss you? The chat isn’t captured, but your additions can be by dropping them into the comments below.

Projectkin programming is offered free with the kind support of our Patrons worldwide. Explore our story and join us 👇.

RootsTech Ride Along Livestream Series

Since I’m doing these daily for a little while, I’ll keep my notes a bit shorter, highlighting elements not discussed in the previous episodes.

* So you can follow along on the full set, here are the links:

The full set of recordings will also be posted to my YouTube Channel at @Projectkin. Clips (suitable for sharing) are on YouTube Shorts and always accessible at Projectkin.org/shorts.

Tips and takeaways

If you don’t yet know Kyla, it’s important to realize that she’s a Genealogy Librarian at a small community college library outside of Houston, Texas. With her strong community ties and large family, she’s well-known and highly sought after for both her research skills and insight into the FamilySearch platform. That made her the perfect person to compare notes with on these last few days ahead of the conference.

A few takeaways:

* Kyla goes into every RootsTech presentation with some special, pre-printed notebook paper that is sectioned with lines for:

* 3 Things to Try Now

* Things to Think About Later

* One Big Idea

Boy, if you get through every presentation or class you go to with these three categories filled in, you’re certainly doing well! I love that.

* Get ready for sessions now, even if you won’t be on site. Prioritize your the sessions you want to attend and download the syllabi (or handouts) now. Reading them over will make the sessions much more interesting.

Relatives At RootsTech

This fun program from FamilySearch continues to reap exciting discoveries. We talked at some length about discoveries from chat as well as those simply by exploring the connections to other conference goers.

* Kyla noted that when you find a relative at the show, take note of your common ancestor and tag that ancestor with a little “Star” that allows you to be notified when changes are made to the profile. As you get to know individuals, you will recognize them for the changes they add to your common ancestors.

In case ya missed it…

I’ve made a few more changes to the RideAlongPartners.org website. Watch for:

* Daily updates to the /posts and /recordings pages

* A new combined /swag page

* A new on-site page listing what to expect for the Ride Along gang on site, including our booth at a very swanky address: #1600 Society Hall. You won’t want to miss access to the Recording Booths! Sign up by Tuesday noon (MT).

* Coming Soon: (if I get a moment…) a /relatives page to capture best practices for using Relatives at RootsTech to further your research efforts — where ever you might be. Anyone wanna help me with this?

Ride Along Ready! 🚙💨

From the start, Geneabloggers and Projectkin have shared a passion for family history and storytelling since the beginning. We both see the extraordinary value of pursuing this work with the support and encouragement of a community. So, with RootsTech approaching, it only made sense to do this together. Have suggestions for us? Drop me a note or an email (see Projectkin.org).

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