The following announcement was just received:
National Genealogical Society is excited to announce a Free Tour of Ancestry.com and an opportunity to Digitize Your Family Records at the NGS 2010 Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah 28 April—1 May 2010.
Take a Free Tour of Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is thrilled to offer complimentary tours of Ancestry.com company headquarters during the NGS conference in Salt Lake City. The tour will offer a behind-the-scenes look at everything it takes to run Ancestry.com, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including the content and digitizing operations.The tours will be held twice a day on Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30. The first tour on each day will begin at 9:00 am; the second tour each day will begin at 1:30 pm. Each tour can accommodate 45 individuals.
All four tours will begin and end at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Ancestry.com has chartered busses to transport tour attendees from the Salt Palace Convention Center to Ancestry.com corporate headquarters and back. The tour will last approximately 3 hours, roundtrip. Light refreshments will be served.
How to Register for an Ancestry.com Tour
You must be registered for the NGS 2010 Family History Conference to sign up for this tour.
- Go to www.ngsgenealogy.org and log on under the User Login area
- Click on the Store link on the top menu bar
- From the drop down box under Shop For choose Sessions and enter Ancestry.com in the Enter Name/Keyword box and click go.
- Select the session, add to cart and then check out
Digitize Your Family Records
Ancestry.com is excited to provide NGS Conference attendees the opportunity to have their family photos and documents scanned at the conference, for free, on our professional scanning equipment. It’s a unique opportunity to have your family history records digitized!Conference attendees can sign up for 15-minute scanning sessions on Wednesday, April 28, through Saturday, May 1, to be held during the exhibit hall hours. Scanning-session signs-ups will open each morning—sign up Wednesday morning for a Wednesday time slot, Friday morning for a Friday time slot. The scanning is located in the GenTech area of exhibit hall and is operational during the exhibit hall hours.
Will you be bringing items to scan? Please help us plan accordingly by letting us know how much and what you’ll be bringing. (http://2010NGSscanning.eventbrite.com)
