#185 Part 3, Thomas MacEntee: RootsTech 2018, On Your Calendar!
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 107 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Part 3, Thomas MacEntee: RootsTech 2018, On Your Calendar!
On Your Calendar: At RootsTech 2018, BackStory Series
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 (hidefgen.com) to get his views about the trends taking place in genetic genealogy, and looking ahead for RootsTech 2018, and beyond, genealogy and technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, Root's tech is really, it's now disregard, I don't want to say disregard, but the tech thing is a bit of a misnomer. |
| 0:16.6 | A lot of the classes are not technical in nature. |
| 0:20.3 | Basically, if you've never done genealogy, there's a beginner's track. They have a special |
| 0:24.2 | pass for beginners. And so if it's always interested you, I would say come here the |
| 0:30.0 | energy 25,000 30 people, and it's not crazy. |
| 0:35.1 | There are places to sit down and relax. |
| 0:37.6 | There's lots of good sales prices. |
| 0:39.5 | We've seen DNA tests, living DNA, $49. I mean, normally DNA $49. |
| 0:43.2 | I mean normally their sale bottoms at $89. |
| 0:46.5 | ancestry right now is $59. |
| 0:48.9 | So the sale pricing, you can really, we have people buying 10 tests for family reunions this summer so it's a |
| 0:55.7 | great and there are I think 188 no 193 vendors here so then they cover the globe |
| 1:01.5 | there 50 different countries represented. |
| 1:03.8 | South Africa, Sweden, Israel, Norway. |
| 1:06.9 | And so it's a great immersion into genealogy and family history. Yeah, well these shoes, yeah, these are neon. |
| 1:19.1 | I usually have gold or green or glowing or something. Yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | No, I think with my extrover personality, |
| 1:25.0 | I'm not afraid of color. |
| 1:27.0 | And so, yeah, but I usually stand out. |
| 1:30.0 | Everyone knows me here. |
| 1:31.0 | It's hard for me to walk down the hallway without getting |
| 1:34.0 | snagged by someone and but I love it. This is my main event that I look forward to. |
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