Fold3 Blog » trade-show http://blog.fold3.com The official blog of Fold3 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:51:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Friend Falls on Hard Times http://blog.fold3.com/a-friend-falls-on-hard-times/ http://blog.fold3.com/a-friend-falls-on-hard-times/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:11:32 +0000 Peter http://blog.footnote.com/?p=611 Continue reading →]]> Over the past while, we’ve had the opportunity to present classes about Footnote and talk to people at our booth in the vendor areas at many expos sponsored by Family History Expos.  A couple of weeks ago, at their event in St George, Utah, we heard the sad news about some recent troubles they’ve had.

On February 20, 2010, Family History Expos website was destroyed by a fire suppression accident in the data center that housed their servers.  Without a site, no one was able to get information about or register for their expos.  Their new website, while still a work in progress, is coming along nicely and you can now visit the site to register to receive their free E-news and Tips.

This year there will be Expos from California to Atlanta and many places in between. Information on each Expo will be coming online as soon as possible. For more information, see their website at http://www.fhexpos.com/

]]> http://blog.fold3.com/a-friend-falls-on-hard-times/feed/ 0 St. George 2007 Genealogy & Family Heritage Jamboree http://blog.fold3.com/st-george-2007-genealogy-family-heritage-jamboree/ http://blog.fold3.com/st-george-2007-genealogy-family-heritage-jamboree/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:41:34 +0000 Elizabeth http://blog.footnote.com/st-george-2007-genealogy-family-heritage-jamboree/ Continue reading →]]> This past weekend Beau, Donna, and I traveled to sunny St. George to participate in the conference. Donna and I enjoyed the conference as we talked to both novice and experienced family historians as they visited the Footnote booth in the Exhibit Hall. We were thrilled to meet many people who were already using the site. Our own Beau Sharbrough gave three classes and spoke at the Footnote sponsored dinner on Friday night. Dick Eastman joined Donna and me in the Footnote booth. I must say it was fun to have a genealogy celebrity with us at the conference. Footnote recently began sponsoring Dick’s fabulous newsletter.

Those that visited in the booth asked some great questions and offered great suggestions. We learned that it would be beneficial to clearly communicate the level of completion for the different collections. There was a lot of curiosity surrounding the content from NARA we will be featuring on the site next. We also heard the need for a Footnote newsletter. It’s this type of feedback that will help us build a better product.

The conference had a great turn out and I had the chance to meet a lot of wonderful people. Throughout the conference people shared their enthusiasm for family history. I loved hearing people’s eureka moments when they finally found a record that was crucial to the next step of their research. The family historians I met at the conference had a great passion for the past and the documents that preserve history. I must say the family history bug was contagious and I spent several hours this week working on my own family history research. We would also like to congratulate Em Shipley who won a free Annual Membership to Footnote. We felt the conference was a great success and like to thank all those that participated!

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