We took an eleven day trip to Salt Lake City to attend the Rootstech Conference in the Salt Palace. This conference combined genealogy and technology. So there is a bit of an age gap with the really old genealogists and really young technologists but it seemed to work. You won't believe all the new technology available for genealogy. Within a year or so most genealogy will be done on mobile devices.
This is the view of the capital and conference center from our window.
This is the other view from our hotel.
Sunday morning we were part of the 4299th live broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Spoken Word.
The Christus in the West Visitors Center.
Temple at night.
This statue of a family pulling a hand cart was created by the famous Norwegian sculptor, Torleif Knaphus.
One say at noon we went back to the tabernacle to attend an organ recital. Most of the music was beautiful but other pieces made not sense to me, with all the rolls, flourishes and strange chords; sometimes it sounded like they just laid down of the keyboards. Oh well, I guess that is why I am not an organist.
Another day we had lunch with Barb and Dave Parkinson, good friends from way back when they lived in Minnesota.
Strange trees.
This statue in the conference center is of the first vision.
But when you turned it around so you could see the back, you notice that God the Father has his arm around Jesus. You don't see that anywhere else.
From the conference center roof.
The Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we had numerous classes on Norwegian genealogy.
Church office building where we had passes to eat in the cafeteria. It was good food for little money.
This is the original Nauvoo Temple bell with the SLC Temple in the background.
Spent several days here looking at Norwegian parish records, Bygdeboks, and maps.
The Norwegian SLC genealogy group had a get-together in a fourth floor conference room in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. after it was over we took several of the group members up to the observation floor to get some pictures. Some of the members of the group have been to SLC before but never seen the temple from the top floor. They were impressed.
This is the view of the capital and conference center from our window.
This is the other view from our hotel.
Sunday morning we were part of the 4299th live broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Spoken Word.
The Christus in the West Visitors Center.
Temple at night.
This statue of a family pulling a hand cart was created by the famous Norwegian sculptor, Torleif Knaphus.
One say at noon we went back to the tabernacle to attend an organ recital. Most of the music was beautiful but other pieces made not sense to me, with all the rolls, flourishes and strange chords; sometimes it sounded like they just laid down of the keyboards. Oh well, I guess that is why I am not an organist.
Another day we had lunch with Barb and Dave Parkinson, good friends from way back when they lived in Minnesota.
Strange trees.
This statue in the conference center is of the first vision.
But when you turned it around so you could see the back, you notice that God the Father has his arm around Jesus. You don't see that anywhere else.
From the conference center roof.
The Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we had numerous classes on Norwegian genealogy.
Church office building where we had passes to eat in the cafeteria. It was good food for little money.
This is the original Nauvoo Temple bell with the SLC Temple in the background.
Spent several days here looking at Norwegian parish records, Bygdeboks, and maps.
The Norwegian SLC genealogy group had a get-together in a fourth floor conference room in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. after it was over we took several of the group members up to the observation floor to get some pictures. Some of the members of the group have been to SLC before but never seen the temple from the top floor. They were impressed.
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I hope you had an amazing time. I love the picture of the temple at night. How beautiful. How fun to see Dave and Barbara as well.
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