Here at Rootstech 2013,
we're certainly seeing and experiencing all the variety of Utah's
weather – when we aren't inside, that is, listening in sessions,
asking questions, hamming it up (ok – that's mostly thegeneabloggers) or having a look at all that's new in genealogy in the
Expo hall.
I have been tweeting,
at least as long as my phone battery has held out, but I'll catch up
with blog posts over the next few days. On Twitter, follow the #rootstech hashtag.
Daily Rootstech 2013
sends a survey asking for our 'favorite' [spelling] session of the
day. Today, hands down, that was “Creating Virtual New England
Community Archives”. Thank you, David Allan Lambert!
His website, which he's
been working on over the last 7 years, is focused on Stoughton,
Massachusetts, USA: http://www.stoughtonhistory.com
I liked his introductory story of his early interest in
his own house and the town, and his later 'adoption' of Stoughton history as
a personal project. (I've never been to Stoughton, and as far as I
know, have no relatives from there, although I am somewhat familiar
with the 1920s execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for
murder, and I see information on the site about Sacco's time in Stoughton and residents' reaction to the case.)
Attendance was low for this session;
perhaps 'New England' in the title put people off? But the talk's
description was pretty clear – and this session was full of ideas
useful to anyone, or any group, looking at building a location based
historical/genealogical website.
Since I already have one of those, I
had been looking forward to hearing David Lambert – and I wasn't disappointed.
In fact, I've already thought of 2 or 3 ways to adapt some of his
suggestions to my existing projects, for example, using Find A Grave to
construct virtual cemeteries, of veterans, perhaps.
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