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Free Conference Momentum Pack!!
One Session → Three Actions: A Simple Way to Make Conference Learning “Stick” If you’ve ever finished a conference session feeling inspired and then watched that inspiration dissolve into a pile of bookmarks, you’re not alone. Online events like RootsTech are amazing, but they can also be a lot. When there are hundreds of sessions…
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Get Ready For RootsTech Online!
RootsTech 2026 starts next Thursday, and if you’re attending virtually, you’re in good company. Last year, approximately 10 million people participated online. The online experience is designed to be global, flexible, and (best of all) free. The only problem? Even online, RootsTech is huge. There are over 200 online sessions, with live broadcasts 24 hours…
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How The Google Translate Extension Translates Languages Right On The Page
Sooner or later, almost every genealogist is going to work with foreign language documents. The Google Translate webpage, is a great free resource for small translations such as a paragraph here or there, or passages small enough to type into the translation text box. But what happens when that’s just not enough? Copying and…
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The Best Way To Use The Internet This Week
Friends, we live in amazing times. February 1st marked the start of a yearly event that I could never imagine when I was young. We can order Thin Mints online. (Click here!) Gone are the days of trying to find a Girl Scout with a cookie sheet. Reaching out to friends, distant…
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The Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive The Internet Archive, at https://archive.org is one of the best kept online secrets. A non-profit with the lofty goal to “provide Universal Access to All Knowledge” In practice, that means a partnership with libraries, universities, and organizations worldwide to amass an incredibly large body of knowledge – free to anyone who wants…
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All About Prompt Cowboy
Last Saturday at 2pm eastern was the launch of FTT’s monthly Office Hours webinar. It’s a place where you can bring your tech questions to be answered live during the call. This week, we talked about AI, especially prompt generators like Prompt Cowboy. To be clear, Prompt Cowboy isn’t a LLM program like Claude,…