Presenter Profile: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee is the founder and president of RootsMagic, Inc., and the author of RootsMagic genealogy software. Bruce has been writing genealogy software for over 18 years. Bruce has taught thousands of users the ins and outs of RootsMagic, from the basics for beginners to advanced topics for the genealogy professional. Bruce is also the webmaster of Family-Reunion.com, the world's most popular family reunion planning site.

Bruce is teaching "What's New in RootsMagic 4" Friday at 2:30 pm.

Presenter Profile:Barry Ewell

Barry J. Ewell is the founder of MyGenShare.com. He is a writer and researcher with extensive genealogical experience in internet and field research, digital and software resources and mentoring genealogists. Research interests include Eastern U.S., United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia.

Barry is teaching "Photo Editing Software--Tricks, Tips and Applications for Genealogical Novice to Expert" Thursday at 11am and "Digital Photography for Genealogists" Friday at 4pm.

Presenter Profile: Daniel Lynch

Dan Lynch is a technology marketing consultant and professional genealogist based in Connecticut. With more than 25 years in technology marketing and 30 years as a genealogist, Dan is well versed in a broad variety of genealogy topics with a particular strength in the application of technology for the pursuit of family history. Dan served as vice president of Ancestry.com from 1998 – 2001 and has also served as a consultant for The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (NYC), FindMyPast (London) and other organizations in the genealogy sector.

Dan is a life member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists (CSG). Many of his articles have been published in leading family history publications and his book, Google Your Family Tree, won a 2009 literary award as best genealogy reference. A skilled and popular presenter for more than a decade, Dan participates in scores of genealogy conferences and local meetings annually. He has been featured on local and national television news programs, including ABCs popular Good Morning America show.

Daniel is teaching in the ICAPGen track on Saturday morning. His classes "Google Your Family Tree: Unlock the Hidden Power of Google" Parts 1 and 2 are at 8:00 am and 9:30 am respectively.

Present Profile: Drew Smith

Drew Smith, MLS, is the Information Literacy Librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Library. Prior to his current position, he was an instructor for the USF School of Library and
Information Science for more than 12 years, and earlier worked for academic computing departments at the University of South Florida and Clemson University. He is Secretary of the Association of Professional Genealogists, a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (and editor of its new blog, the FGS Voice), and President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He has been the co-host of the Genealogy Guys Podcast since September 2005. Smith is author of the book Social Networking for Genealogists, published in 2009 by Genealogical Publishing Company.

Drew is teaching "Social Networking for Genealogists" Saturday at 11am,

Twitter and NGS 2010

Kathryn Doyle asked a very good question. Do we have an official hashtag for NGS 2010? The answer is not yet. But let's create one right now. how about #NGS2010--too obvious? Leave your comments with any ideas you think might be better. We'll firm it up next week. In addition the lovely and talented Gayathri over at NGS has created a twitter account for official announcements, etc. Please add "ngsgenealogy" to your list of people you're following.

Twitter is a great way for attendees at the conference to share their experience both with other attendees and those that can't make it this year. Please remember, however, to use common sense and courtesy when tweeting during lectures. Always ask the lecturer prior to the lecture if they mind if you tweet during the lecture. Also try not to disrupt those around you. That being said I can think of no better way to share ideas on the spot. Let's start twittering!

Christy Fillerup