BYU Family History Technology Workshop -- Addressing the problems and looking for solutions

My first day of the #RootsTech 2016 week begins with the Brigham Young University (BYU) Family History Technology Workshop. This one day event is celebrating its 17th year. The morning session involved a keynote and a series of very short, five minute, Lightning Talks. The first set of talks and the keynote, by Professor Amy Harris of BYU, dealt with the problems genealogists perceive as important. I will be writing a series of blog posts about these issues in the near future. Here is the list of the issues addressed:

• Dallan Quass: Tree Quality
• Mark Clement: Duplicate Removal
• James Tanner: Data Transfer
• Heath Nielson: Data Extraction from Historical Documents
• Scott Woodfield: I Have No Control over My Own Information

The next section of the workshop involved another series of Lightning Talks from the developers of genealogically based software apps or programs. Here us the list of presenters.

• Wesley Eames, AncestorCloud
• Corey Spray, Story Tags
• James Tanner, The Family History Guide
• Laura Stevens, Goze
• Kirsten Wright, Kid Chatteroo
• Todd Webb, KnowtIt
• Scott Halversen, Studio by Legacy Republic
• Mark Jones, Timsent
• Chris Cummings, Pass It Down
• Steve Mineer, Wiithu
• Cory Hansen, My Legacy My Story
• Joshua Mathias, Grandma's Pie
• Kevin King, Wheel of Fortune
• Justin Rasband and Tom Sederberg, One Page Genealog

You can see that this was a busy morning.