It’s hard to believe but it is now less that a month until the genealogy-world heads to Salt Lake City for RootsTech, with the added bonus of the Federation of Genealogical Studies (FGS) Conference this year. That’s 4 days of FGS Conference, and 3 whole days RootsTech. WOOHOO! And to say that it’ll be exciting is a total understatement. I will admit that with the craziness of pre-Christmas, Christmas, New Year, bushfires, and playing catchup at work, I haven’t had a lot of time to thing about it recently … but it is now that it gets really exciting. Geneabloggers galore start writing about getting prepared, and what to take etc. Others write or tweet about various talks they’re going to, and speakers they want to see, and others are arranging catchup outside of the Conference time – and so on! So yes it is EXCITING!! And I can’t wait. I went to my first RootsTech Conference back in 2013, and made so many wonderful friends from around the globe, that I can’t wait to catchup with them again, as well as meeting so many more. Some of those there might remember how myself and Helen Smith (my roommate from Queensland) got hyper-excited to actually see snow falling for the first time in our lives. And I bet with the winter temperatures in Salt Lake City, we’ll see some again (which I must say is an added bonus). But while I sit hibernating from the heat on a sweltering day summer’s day, with the airconditioner going, it’s really, really, REALLY hard to think of warm woolly clothes. Anything more than a tanktop and shorts is too hot. But packing clothes comes later. At the moment I’m also trying to...