I'm having a great time working the Ancestry.com booth at RootsTech. There are over 3000 attendees, they say, making this one of the largest genealogy conferences ever, if not the largest. Meeting people and helping them find their ancestors is the greatest feeling. The first man I assisted said, "If I get nothing else out of this conference other than what you have just helped me with, this whole thing will have been worth it." I live for that!
Our booth is right across the aisle from FamilySearch, so I have had a chance to see many old friends and colleagues, which has been awesome. So many great people!
Joe Everett is the Family History, Local History, and Microforms Librarian at the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library. He has over 25 years combined experience in the genealogical field at BYU, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and Ancestry.com.
Joe manages the collections and patron services of the BYU Family History Library and serves as a faculty liaison to instructors in BYU's Family History undergraduate degree program and others involved in family history on campus from social to computer science.
At FamilySearch, Joe was a library program manager providing services for the more 5,000 family history centers. Previously at FamilySearch, he headed the International Reference floor at the Family History Library, and also worked for several years as a technical services librarian, cataloging Slavic and Germanic records. He has served on numerous strategic planning and program development teams at FamilySearch. At Ancestry.com, he worked in content acquisitions and content product and project management, putting genealogical databases online.
Joe earned a B.A. in Russian Language and in Family History/Genealogy (Germanic emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University (Kansas). He has been a member and officer in various library and genealogical associations and has lectured and published articles on U.S. and European family history research, historical geography, and migration.
The opinions expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my employer, FamilySearch International.
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