Presenter Profiles: David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA

David E. Rencher is employed by the Family History Department in Salt Lake City as the Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch. A professional genealogist since 1977, he was accredited in Ireland research in 1981. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1980 with a B.A. in Family and Local History. He is the Irish course coordinator and instructor for the Samford Unviersity Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR) in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a past president of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) 1997-2000) and of the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) 1993-1995 and a Fellow of that organization.

NGS Classes:

Wednesday, 28 April in the "International" track at 11:00 a.m.

Out of Ashes - Irish Genealogical Collections

Thursday, 29 April in the "British Isles" track at 9:30 a.m.

Chasing the Poor and Landless in Ireland

Friday, 30 April in the "GenTeck" Track at 8:00 a.m.

Doing Research in Real Time-an Exhilarationg Collaboration Experience

Friday, 30 April in the "BCG Skillbuilding" Track at 4:00 p.m.

Intepreting and Evaluation Name Lists

Saturday, 1 May in the "GenTech" Track at 9:30 a.m.

FamilySearch and its Unique Role in the Genealogical Community

Saturday, 1 May in the "NGS GenTeck Luncheon"

The Top 10 Areas Where Technology Can Still Make a Real Difference in Genealogy-Could You Please Hurry?

Speaker Profile: Jim Greene

Jim Greene was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, but also spent part of his childhood in Annandale, Virginia and Lakewood, Colorado. After serving a two year LDS Church mission to Argentina Jim graduated with a bachelor degrees in both Spanish and Business Management from BYU, then earned an MBA degree from Penn State.

Jim worked for IBM for 10 years in New York and Salt Lake City. He became a Product Manager with Novell over its flagship NetWare product, and after 10 years with Novell he felt prompted to join FamilySearch and work on the new FamilySearch project. He led the preliminary research phase where Product Managers traveled throughout the world interviewing people to help understand their family history needs. Seven years later Jim continues to work to bring out FamilySearch Products by ensuring that messaging and training is directed to appropriate audiences.

Jim is an avid bicyclist, and commutes daily to downtown SLC on his bike from his home in Sandy, UT. Jim and his wife Charity have 4 children and 1 grandchild.

NGS Class: Thursday, 29 April 2010 at 2:30 pm

The Power of Community and the Web 2.0: Tools to Foster Collaboration and Community