The 10th anniversary of the world’s largest family history event, RootsTech, held February 26–29, 2020, attracted nearly 30,000 people from all over the world to Salt Lake City.
The four-day conference hosted more than 300 sessions and 200 booths, where family history enthusiasts could explore their own histories with the help of virtual reality, research specialists and other hands-on resources.
This year’s theme was “The Story of You.”
Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Lesa, were the featured keynote speakers at Saturday’s Family Discovery Day. Family Discovery Day, a free one-day event, helped families and individuals of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the general public to discover their family heritage…
Keynote Speakers
“We create inspired experiences that prompt inspired questions that lead to inspiring answers, as we seek to discover, gather and connect our families — past, present and future — as those inspiring experiences occur within families,” said Steve Rockwood, CEO of FamilySearch International, as he opened the annual family history conference on Wednesday.
Emmitt Smith, the National Football League all-time leading rusher and a keynote speaker at the conference on Saturday, shared his journey of finding the story of his enslaved ancestors from West Africa and how they have influenced his life. Smith said that his own story already started generations before he was born…
Latter-day Saint stand-up comedian Ryan Hamilton and Leigh Anne Tuohy were also among the keynote speakers.
On Thursday night, the Young Women and Young Men general presidencies surprised more than 20,000 youths who attended the RootsTech youth party with escape rooms. The youths could explore different cultures from around the world and solve family history mysteries in the escape rooms.
(Read the full article in the Church Newsroom)
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