Who’s going to RootsTech 2025? It’s coming up in less than two weeks! March 6-8 2025! It’s the largest family history conference in the world! It happens every year, sponsored by FamilySearch, in Salt Lake City, UT. You can go here to learn all about it. You can even attend some of the classes from the comfort of your recliner in your PJs! It’s so exciting to see the cool technology unveiled every year, with apps, software, and websites that increase everyone’s ability to search out and enjoy learning about their family tree. It feels like Christmas!

These classes will help you increase your skills and knowledge so you can build your knowledge of your family tree or add to it. Knowing who your ancestors are allows you to feel more connected to them, more joyful, and more open to the future. Learning about my relatives and the hard times they’ve gone through has helped me go through my hard times.

I also firmly believe that our deceased relatives are angels watching over us, and they can help us do things for us that we can’t do for ourselves, as we help them with temple work, in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is something they can’t do for themselves. That’s my biggest reason for searching out my family tree! Kim Sorenson beautifully testifies of this in her story over here.

Go here to learn all about RootsTech, then register to come in person or online! In person attendance involves an admission cost, online attendance is free and limited to certain classes.

Be sure to watch Saturday’s Family Discovery Day, featuring speakers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s always so inspiring! Go here to learn about that, and then scroll down to the end to see the schedule. Look to the right to see what classes are available online.

Here are some sneak peeks of what’s happening at RootsTech 2025 below.

Here’s one of my favorite videos from RootsTech Family Discovery Day showing Elder Neil L. Andersen issuing a temple challenge to youth. I have taken it to hear as well and been so blessed by it. It’s five years old but applies just as much to today. He’s speaking again on FDD this year too, with his wife.