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Quel programme alléchant !

Que celui de RootsTech 2019 !

 

Vous allez me dire que c’est quelque chose dont je parle chaque année mais c’est tellement vrai ! Il y en a pour tous les goûts : des néophytes aux grands spécialistes, il y a des conférences sur des sujets tellement variés et surtout, chose qui manque cruellement en Europe, ou du moins qui n’est pas assez présente : la réflexion sur la pratique elle-même, sur la déontologie, sur les maniéres de faire, les « do/don’t » etc.

C’est sûr, le programme du plus grand salon de généalogie au monde est tellement riche et varié qu’on ne peut y rester insensible. Il y a de quoi satisfaire les débutants, voire les personnes qui ignorent totalement ce qu’est la généalogie et ses multiples pratiques.

Je suis spécialement tentée par tout ce qui est touche à la réflexion sur les méthodes de recherche et spécialement le digital, et le numérique, les exploitations de Google, Youtube, la vidéo : en bref, la généalogie du futur….qui sera d’ailleurs peut-être complétement différente de comment on l’imagine. Il y a 200 ou 300 ans, nos ancêtres ne nous aurait pas imaginé à converser en ligne avec des intervenants du monde, ni même du reste à entreprendre un voyage pour les beaux yeux de la pratique !

Comme d’habitude, j’essaye également de profiter de mon séjour la-bas pour apprendre quelque chose de tout à fait nouveau : cette année, je vais suivre une leçon de généalogie….japonaise!

J’ai hâte de continuer mon exploration et mon apprentissage concernant tout ce qui concerne la généalogie génétique et les généalogies des minorités ( La aussi, l’Europe a énormément à apprendre des pratiques américaines) et revenir plus riche de tout cela, et des contacts humains sur place qui m’apportent tellement pour ma pratique quotidienne, et au-delà, dans ma vie ( si,si, c’est bateau mais c’est vrai ! )

Et surtout, surtout,je suis impatiente de vous montrer ce grand évenement, d’être votre envoyée spéciale sur place et de vous offrir les nouvelles les plus fraîches du monde généalogique !

Vivement !

Finding Your Roots’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Keynote RootsTech 2018

Dr. Henry Louis Gates is host of PBS' Finding Your Roots and will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2018.SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (9 January 2018)–RootsTech is pleased to announce Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be a keynote speaker at RootsTech 2018 on Saturday, March 3, 2018, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Easily find and share this announcement online in the FamilySearch Newsroom.)

Dr. Gates is perhaps best known in genealogy circles for his current role as the host of Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series on PBS, now in its 4thseason. The series combines traditional genealogical paper research with genetic Y-chromosome DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and autosomal DNA to discover the family history of well-known Americans.

Gates has been engaged in genealogical and anthropological studies for most of his career. Prior to Finding Your Roots, he hosted and co-produced African American Lives 1 and 2, using genealogy and DNA to document the lineage of more than a dozen African Americans and hosted Faces of America, a four-part series examining the genealogy of 12 North Americans of diverse ancestry—also for PBS.

As an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, he has created 18 documentary films. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University (first titled the W.E.B Institute for African and African American research)—a position he has held since he arrived at Harvard in 1991. During his first 15 years on campus, he chaired the Department of Afro-American Studies as it expanded into the Department of African and African American Studies with a full-fledged doctoral program.

He has authored or co-authored 22 books and is also hailed as a literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. Professor Gates serves as chairman of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine and chair of the Creative Board of FUSION TV. He also oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource on the topic and, through a funding grant, has developed a Finding Your Roots curriculum to teach science through genetics and genealogy.

Gates received his B.A. in English language and literature summa cum laude, from Yale University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 1979. Since then he has received 55 honorary degrees and numerous prizes. In 1981 Dr. Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation. In 1998, he became the first African American scholar awarded the National Humanities medal. He was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and the magazine’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.

He is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and the Brookings Institution. In 2017, the Organization of American States named Gates a Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of People of African Descent in the Americas.

For more information, or to register, go to RootsTech.org.

Great great great!!!!

(http://www.rootstech.org )