#183 Thomas MacEntee RootsTech 2018: Looking Ahead
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 107 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Thomas MacEntee RootsTech 2018: Looking Ahead
The Not Old Better Show Interview Series: BackStory
During RootsTech 2018, The Not Old Better Show, BackStory series, chatted with Thomas MacEntee, professional genealogist, technologist, author and the man behind High Definition Genealogy (www.hidefgen.com) to get his views about the trends taking place in genetic genealogy, and looking ahead for RootsTech, genealogy and technology.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm doing great, I'm tired. This is a high energy event, |
| 0:08.8 | I'm doing great. I'm tired. |
| 0:10.8 | This is a high energy event, let's put it that way. |
| 0:14.0 | Actually, all the activity around DNA doesn't surprise me, but what I'm seeing is more people interested in doing the matching, |
| 0:24.0 | getting drilling down more into the scientific and technical aspect. |
| 0:28.2 | So it gives me hope we're getting away more from people saying, |
| 0:31.7 | oh, I've done the test I know my ethnicity I'm done |
| 0:34.0 | we're trying to get the message across that no you're not done there's so much more |
| 0:37.9 | that you can do and also there are a few vendors here working on the health |
| 0:42.1 | aspect of DNA so I'm really interested and |
| 0:45.4 | intrigued by that. |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, I'm going to do that usually this afternoon and tomorrow. |
| 0:51.5 | I try and do it in between when classes are in session |
| 0:55.0 | because that's when the vendors have time to devote to you. |
| 0:58.0 | So that's a tip if you ever go to a trade show |
| 1:00.0 | if you really want to network with vendors and you want their attention do it |
| 1:04.6 | while classes are in session. Actually I want to go talk to one is a |
| 1:10.1 | chroma, QR-O-M-A it's a photo app and what it is is you can actually dictate information metadata and its voice recognition about the photo photo and actually it goes so far as if you |
| 1:25.5 | say this is a photo of me and my mom at the Eiffel Tower in 1980 it will go on the |
| 1:30.7 | end and calculate oh this is your mother's name and add it to the photo |
| 1:34.6 | so it's amazing stuff technology we're seeing more more voice activated technology |
| 1:39.2 | that's where the future genealogy is |
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