Expo Hall

Don’t miss the Expo Hall where you can experience high-tech product demos in the Demo Theater, as well as relevant and exciting genealogy and technology exhibitors. You can also explore the Family History Library mini-lab, RootsTech Playground game area, get some refreshment and take advantage of networking opportunities.

RootsTech 2012 Expo Hall

Time	Thursday, Feb 2	Friday, Feb 3	Saturday, Feb 4
10:00am – 5:00pm	Expo Hall	Expo Hall	Expo Hall (9:30am-3:00pm)
11:00am – 3:00pm	Demo Theater Expo Hall	Demo Theater Expo Hall	Demo Theater Expo Hall
12:00 – 12:45pm	Lightning Talks Demo Theater	Lightning Talks Demo Theater

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List of 73 Exhibitors

Booth	Spaces
24-7 Genealogist New 24-7Genealogy.com website which brings ancestry experts to You, the Customer. Helps Family History Professionals Win New Customers.	103
AboutOne AboutOne is an online family management system that makes it fast and easy to preserve and share a family's history from any web-enabled device - with bank level security. With AboutOne, it's possible to document family members' memories and milestones in a multi-media format (text, photos, videos, artwork), as well as details about their health and education so you can record a complete picture of each family memberÕs life. This digital history can then be gifted to children when they become adults, and custom-selected pieces of this history can be shared in automatically-created family newsletters and beautiful hardcover photo memory books. AboutOne supercharges your existing calendar and contact tools to make your household information work for you. AboutOne features: calendar-based, online organizer, completely private with bank-level security, full mobile access, easy, auto-magic data entry, guides you on the path to organization, instantly formats your information, when and how you need it. Best of all, AboutOne pays you to be organized!	624
AGES-online AGES-Online is the hottest genealogy software system on the market today. You will be able to create and maintain your family history entirely online.	417, 419, 518, 520
Ancestral Quest Ancestral Quest Family Tree Software for Windows	108
Ancestry Ancestry.com exhibit featuring computers for searching, giveaways, and Ancestry.com staff to answer customer questions.	201, 203, 205, 207, 302, 304, 306, 308
Archives Family history made simple & affordable.	313, 315, 414, 416
Association of Professional Genealogists APG strives to support, guide, and protect all aspects of genealogy as a profession and promotes the highest standard of ethics and professionalism among our members.	319, 420
Billion Graves Collect photos of the headstones in your local cemetery with our iPhone camera app.	503, 625
Board for Certification of Genealogists The BCG is a certifying body, not a membership society. Its mission is to foster public confidence by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogists; and by recognizing persons who meet that standard. The website contains skillbuilding articles, exercises, and a free download of The BCG Application Guide.	536
brightsolid Internet access to family history records on findmypast, britishnewspaperarchive and ScotlandsPeople family history websites	401. 403, 405, 407, 409, 502, 504, 506, 508, 510
BYU Express Book Machine The Express Book Machine (EBM) at the BYU Bookstore will print family histories, genealogies, journals or any type of softcover books from your pdf files. Just prepare your files according to the instructions on our website at ymountainpress.com. Once your files are uploaded to the EBM, we can print and bind a soft cover book with a color cover in 5-7 minutes time. See a video demonstration, family history book samples and get more information at our booth.	434
Crystal Inn Hotel The Crystal Inn Hotel and Suites in downtown Salt Lake City is a beautiful, modern hotel located in the center of fine dining and nightlife. With the addition of our new comfortable bedding package and the ongoing renovations throughout the hotel, the Crystal Inn Hotel and Suites touts 175 beautiful rooms with new carpet, 32Ó flat screen HD TVÕs, and granite counter tops. The Gateway Mall with hundreds of shops, movie theatre, and plenty of great restaurants is just blocks away. Our breakfast is the best complimentary hot buffet breakfast in town. Our elegantly appointed, oversized rooms have all the unique amenities such as hair dryers, iron/board, coffee maker, refrigerators, and microwaves to make you feel right at home. We offer complimentary airport shuttle, office shuttle, wireless internet, local calls, toll free calls, and incoming faxes. We offer a complimentary shuttle to and from the Library.	436
Dell Computers Dell provides technology solutions, services and support.	528, 530
Easy Family History The best resources, tools, and technology to nurture and grow your family tree. Features a widely-acclaimed, step-by-step illustrated guidebook, and new e-books: Using Google Power to Connect to your Ancestors, and Your Family History ÔTechÕ Toolbox.	136
Emkay Inc. Audio, Video, Slides and Film Transfers	606
Family ChartMasters Family ChartMasters is the premier genealogy chart printing service for any kind of genealogy chart you can dream up. From fine art pieces to huge draft family reunion charts we can help you get your information out where you can share it with your family.	109, 210
Family Roots Publishing Sales of genealogy-related books and supplies, as well as scanners, CD's and DVD's.	600, 602, 604
FamilySearch FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide. Patrons may freely access our resources and service online at FamilySearch.org, or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.	301, 303, 305, 307, 309, 402, 404, 406, 408, 410
FamilySearch Book Scanning Family History Books is a collection of more than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world.	619, 621, 623
Family Tree DNA Family Tree DNA representatives will be available to answer questions about genetic genealogy and provide DNA test kits. We will offer special promotional discounts for RootsTech participants, educational demonstrations, and on-site swabbing!	418
Federation of Genealogical Societies The Federation of Genealogical Societies links the genealogical community by: serving the needs of its member societies, providing products and services needed by member societies, and marshaling the resources of its member organizations FGS was founded in 1976 and represents the members of hundreds of genealogical societies. At RootsTech 2012, FGS will provide Society Central a place for society members and leaders to share ideas related to technology and their society.	423, 425, 524, 526
Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Flip-Palª mobile scanner enables the genealogist to recreate stories by preserving historical moments, capturing genealogy documents, images, and celebrate family history. Unlike alternative solutions that don't have the combination of mobility, accuracy, versatility, and keeping the original safe, the Flip-Palª mobile scanner is compact, simple to operate, and has high resolution, quick scan time, battery power, cordless - no computer required, and onboard memory. The Flip-Palª mobile scanner team will be announcing advanced wi-fi technology which allows a quick and easy way to share documents, images, and within seconds verify accuracy of the scanned results on a laptop, tablet, etc.	610
Fold3 Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.	209, 310
GenDetective RumbleSoft offers GenDetective, a desktop software product, that helps the genealogist create research itineraries when planning for a genealogy trip as well as online research by identifying missing information and people who lived in a specific geographic area.	439, 540
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania GSP's mission is to provide leadership and support in promoting genealogy through education, preservation, and access to Pennsylvania-related genealogical information. We are committed to utilizing the latest technologies to expand our offerings for our members, including social media, webinars, a back-end content management system for our website.	637
GenealogyBank GenealogyBank's exclusive newspaper archive for family genealogy research provides information on millions of American families from 1690Ðtoday. Over 5, 800 newspapers provide first-hand accounts about your ancestors that simply can't be found at other genealogy websites. Discover the stories, names, dates, places and events that have played a role in your family history.	437
Genealogy Freelancers Connecting Genealogy Seekers to Specialists across the globe.	433
Genealogy Gems Lisa Louise Cooke is the author of 2 books (The Genealogist's Google Toolbox and Genealogy Gems) and video tutorial CDs (the Google Earth for Genealogy series) and host of the very popular Genealogy Gems Podcast, The Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Podcast, and The Family Tree Magazine Podcast. At the exhibit booth you will find Lisa's books, CDs, apps, free genealogy toolbar, Genealogy Gems Premium Membership, and more. Let Lisa help you find your genealogy gems!	127
Genealogy Presentations Presentation is Everything focuses solely on guiding people through the process of using Microsoft PowerPoint to create ingenious, professional coffee table book presentations.	132
Genealogy Wall Charts Conference special.... free 9 generation fan charts ......we have over 1000 feet of paper during the conference for printing . We can print wall charts as large as 60 inches wide at the conference. Our goal is to further genealogical work by printing creative wall charts that anyone can afford by keeping basic charts costs around $13.95 plus shipping . We believe in making Genealogy fun, we do this by displaying ancestors in a whole new light, spiritually as well as provide sports, hobbies, scrapbooking along with any theme you can dream up. We would hope this will help young and old relate with our ancestors. Please register at www.GenealogyWallCharts.com and help provide additional creative genealogy templates, backgrounds and ideas other users can use as well. Feed back is welcome!	618, 620
Gene Tree Tracing your roots with DNA. A tool to help discover, verfiy and help answer questions about your ancestry.	105, 107
Geni Online family tree/genealogy website.	507, 629
Genlighten An online marketplace for genealogical research services.	632
GenMerge GenMerge finds and merges duplicates in family data. Based on probablistic record linking algorithms it is a fast, convenient way to eliminate duplicate records. Uses GEDCOM files, Windows. GenMerge is an important tool for every serious genealogist to have in their toolbox.	123
Heritage Genealogical College Online genealogical research college with live web capabilities	140
ICAPGen The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists, internationally recognized as ICAPGen, is a professional credentialing organization dedicated to testing an individualÕs competence in genealogical research. The mission of ICAPGen is to advance family history/genealogy work around the world by accrediting and promoting genealogy professionals who are competent, ethical, and reliable, and to work to promote the preservation of genealogical materials.	431
Internet Genealogy Magazine Featuring Internet Genealogy and Family Chronicle. Poplular magazines focusing on family history research, technology for genealogists, and online resources.	630
Legacy Family Tree Legacy Family Tree is the FREE genealogy software to organize, research, and publish your familyÕs tree. Use Legacy to print maps, get research suggestions, collaborate with other family members, cite your sources, publish books and shareable CDs and much more.	104, 106
LegacyStories Family history archive of stories that connect the past to the present and future	634
Lexmark Display of Lexmark products and capabilities	110
LifeStory Productions Family history software to help you organize, find, share and preserve photos, documents, video, sound and more. Create slide shows, share on self running CD/DVD, create GPS maps, label group photos, create family history calendars and storybook pages. Free webinars and software.	614
LifeVenture.me iPad app and service for a global community of individuals collecting and sharing their life experience. Google has done a great job collecting the world's information. We want to collect and distribute the human wisdom accumulated through the roads we've travelled in life. Leave your history. Leave your testament.	612
Maia's Books Books, maps, and other items for genealogists and historians.	631, 633, 635
MarkLogic Powers Mission-Critical Big Data Applications Around the World.	333
Memory Medallion The Memory Medallion is permanently placed on a tombstone, honor wall, or other location of remembrance so that anyone who passes by with a smart phone can scan its bar code and instantly view your personalized memories: stories, snapshots, videos, web links to family history, and more.	208
Mocavo The world's largest free genealogy search engine.	337, 339, 438, 440
My Heritage MyHeritage is the most popular family network on the web. Millions of families around the world enjoy having a private and free place for their families to keep in touch and to showcase their roots. MyHeritageÕs Smart Matchingª technology empowers users with an exciting and innovative way to find relatives and explore their family history. MyHeritage is the ideal place to share family photos, and celebrate and preserve special family moments.	413, 415, 514, 516
Names in Stone NAMES IN STONE - is a unique cemetery website that can help with your research. It provides deceased information as well as the location of the grave. NAMES IN STONE is different because of the accuracy of the cemetery maps it uses. The more accurate the map, the better you will be able to see family relationships. You can do research from your computer as if you were actually at the cemetery.	626
National Genealogical Society Information provided on membership, products and services of the National Genealogical Society. Registration brochures for, The Ohio River, Gateway to the Western Frontier, 9-12 May 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio available.	430
National Institute for Genealogical Studies The National Institute for Genealogical Studies, leaders in online genealogy education for the past 12 years, offers over 200 online courses and 8 Certificate programs dealing with the records of The United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Australia. A Librarianship Certificate program is also available. Instructors and students are from around the world. Courses are available for various levels of student --- from courses about starting a family research project, or enhancing the researchers knowledge on various topic, or becoming a professional researcher.	538
New England Historic Genealogical Society Family research and family history, genealogy and databases available at AmericanAncestors.org.	429
Next Generation Software The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding	130
PhotoTree PhotoTree.com offers a variety of services and products to genealogists that guide them through the process of dating 19th century photographs. This includes a series of ebooks and printed books that help identify and date old photos. Also available is a free web site with dating tutorials, photographic history, a gallery of more than 1, 000 dated images, and weekly case studies. Expert photograph restoration services are also available.	101
Progeny Link Explain the best way to cooperate in genealogy research and sell subscriptions to the website	532, 534
QR Memorials We produce a stainless steel plaque that can be mounted on a headstone or other historical monument. Through a smartphone, a QR code on the plaque links to websites and other electronic services to further memorialize departed individuals or historical sites, etc.	616
Ready Micro ReadyMicro is a leading provider of digitization hardware and software solutions for the family history industry.	329, 331
Real-Time Collaboration Tools that help automate the processes of genealogy research	202, 204, 206
RootsMagic At RootsMagic, we create a variety of easy-to-use software products to help you unite past, present, and future generations.	224, 226, 228
Salt Lake Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel is located next door to the World Renown Family History Library. We are AAA Rated 3 Diamond. Our amenities include: complimentary airport shuttle service, complimentary wireless internet, complimentary business center, full service restaurant microwaves and refrigerators in every room. We offer year round genealogy packages and discounts.	134
SAVVIS, a CenturyLink company Savvis, a CenturyLink company, is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2, 500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing. For more information, visit www.savvis.com or www.centurylink.com.	505
Sharing Time SharingTime assists you in teaming up with others in order to collaborate with your ancestors.	317
Sort Your Story Sort Your Story is a complete organizational tool that stores genealogy records simply and conveniently on your computer.	622
Southern California Genealogy Society With nearly 2000 members, the Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) is the largest genealogical society in the state. SCGS headquarters in Burbank houses a 40, 000 volume library and has been certified as a FamilySearch Center. SCGS introduced the first society-sponsored webinar series and produces the highly popular Genealogy Jamboree, which will be held Jun 8-10, 2012.	627
ST Imaging ST IMAGING is a manufacturer of Affordable Microfilm Scanners and Book Scanners for the research and library markets.	617
Stories To Tell Stories To Tell serves genealogists who wish to preserve their family history in a book. As editors and book designers, we provide technical expertise at each step to organize, edit, design and self publish a family history book. Each book is unique, designed to present the authorÕs research and preserve precious family stories.	628
StoryKeep StoryKeep conducts intimate and professional interviews for discerning families and businesses to capture and preserve their legacies. Our works are crafted from audio and video recordings and incorporate family photos, footage and memorabilia. You have a story to keep. Let us help keep yours.	608
The MagiKey Quickly record census information into a GEDCOM database, compatible with other genealogy software. FamilySearch Certified.	125
The Multimedia Centers Transfer Audio, Video, and Film to DVDs, CDs, blu-ray discs, and Hard Drives	636
TMC Heros Across America Trailer Interview Veterans of their war experiences and present them with a Video DVD of the interview at no cost to them	638
Utah Genealogical Association Informational booth on advantages of Utah Genealogical Association membership	432
Vmware Virtualization is the essential catalyst for cloud computing. As the virtualization leader, VMware builds on this solid foundation with platforms and solutions to power your cloud infrastructure, build and run robust cloud applications, and supply end-user computing as a cloud-based service.	435
WikiTree 100% free, shared family tree with privacy controls.	102
YouWho Still in stealth mode, youwho will help people discover their personal connection to history in ways that are well beyond any current experience.	230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239

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