RootsTech 2018 Handouts Available thru RootsTech App or App Website

RootsTech 2018  the annual genealogy and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, is just days away. Conference attendees -- those able to attend in person and those attending via LiveStream -- can access the 2018 class syllabus handouts online. These were released a couple weeks ago so if you have not got the handouts for your sessions yet there is still time to do so.

Like last year you must use a RootsTech App to download or email yourself the session syllabus handouts from either the Apple App Store or GooglePlay. The RootsTech App is made for SmartPhones. Unlike last year when the app was just finicky on a tablet, one of our members found the App unusable this year on that same tablet. It simply crashed with each attempt to open/use it.  So usability may vary by non-smartphone device.

Please note that this is the same app as last year. So if you made notes in the handouts thru the App and it is still on your device you will likely want to make sure you download the handouts to your computer or email them to yourself before loading the new 2018 conference information. Some users on other blogs have said it overwrites the 2017 information.

How do you find a session's handout? Search the conference schedule or search by speaker. To email a handout to yourself, you have to find the session you want, view the session, click on the PDF and you will be asked do you want to "open it, email it or take notes on the handout." By this route, you must do this individually for each session you desire a handout. The PDF file name will be a series of numbers and letters not the title of the session.

To download multiple session handouts at one time, click on the star next to the session in the conference schedule. Then go back to the App Home and then select the App's download and click the download icon. The files will que and be downloaded.

If you are able to get the App to run on your tablet, please note that some users have found the RootsTech App to be troublesome on a tablet so exercise some patience while using it. When you are done with the App you may want to remove it from your tablet. But if you initially downloaded the handout PDFs rather than email them, before you remove the RootsTech App be sure to email those PDFs to yourself. The downloaded PDFs are stored in the RootsTech App data and not in your device's download folder so if you delete the App you delete the PDFs.

Here's an example of where to find your downloaded session PDFs on an Android tablet: Prepare an email to yourself; click on attach files; go to My Files; go to the internal memory card (i.e. sdcard0) where apps store their data or that place on your device; go to Android folder; go to data folder; go to "com.coreapps. ...me.rootstech" folder (it will be named something like that); go to files folder; then check the select boxes and then done to attach your downloaded PDFs to the email; then send the email. Open the received email and save the attached files to your computer or another folder on your device. Now you will not lose the downloaded PDF files when you delete the RootsTech App.

For those without smartphones and for those who can't get the app to run on a tablet, don't despair. There is also a browser page where you access the App. If you view each session's handout individually you can download it without having to use a log-in id. Remember to rename the downloaded PDF file so you will know what it is later.

Remember class times are listed in Mountain Time at the RootsTech website and in the RootsTech App. We are Eastern Time which is 2 hours ahead. So 8:30 am Mountain is 10:30 am Eastern. See our RootsTech 2018 LiveStream Schedule Post listing sessions in Eastern Time with the session codes.

See You Soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library! 
LE