Broadening genealogical research skills is an important way to assist with making new discoveries in your family history research. RootsTech Worldwide Conference, the largest family history conference, will be held tomorrow 29 February to 2 March 2024 in person in Salt Lake City, Utah, and free online worldwide. RootsTech began in person in 2011 and has transformed into a hybrid conference with courses in person and online. During the Covid pandemic, the 2021 conference was hosted online in 11 languages and was attended by over 1 million participants from 242 countries who had access to watch approximately 2,000 genealogical class sessions on-demand. The on-demand courses from 2021 to 2023 are still available to view on the RootsTech website.
This year, the conference includes several online presentations in English related to Arab American genealogy research.
28 February – Overcoming Challenges of Connecting with Your Middle Eastern Roots, Akram Khater, Khayrallah Center (pre-recorded)
28 February – Arab American Family History in the United States, Matthew Stiffler, George Harb, Arab American National Museum (pre-recorded)
1 March – Tracing Your Arab American Roots, Reem Awad-Rashmawi, National Society for Arab & Arab American Genealogy founder (live webinar)
There are also several sessions in Arabic. To find them, search RootsTech On-Demand Library and choose a language option.
In addition to Arab American focused session, there are 100s of sessions to learn methodology and tips on research from records, archiving photos, interviewing family and more.