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| John Smith |
John first became interested in his family history as a young boy. On most Memorial Days he would ride with his father to Castle Gate, Utah and then to a cemetery in Spring Glen to care for and place flowers on his grandfather's grave. His grandfather was killed in the 1924 Castle Gate Mine Explosion. When John's own father passed away when John was 23 this left a lot of unanswered questions about his family story.
John's niece, Kimberly Nelson Savage, winner of my 2017 RootsTech pass, has been pursuing the research into this explosion and has found detailed information about their family. When Kimberly shared all this information with John, she claims he just rolled his eyes. However, his interest has since grown to where he wants to connect not only with the family tree but desires to know the stories of his ancestors.
John is President and co-founder of Premier Software Associates, which provides software and consulting services for hospitals, and he is married with three incredible children.
He is excited to be attending RootsTech 2019. His father served in WW II and he is interested in pursuing more research in war and military records. He is hoping to travel to areas his father served in Europe. He is also seeking ideas for how to keep the memories but not all the stuff. A great class at this year's RootsTech is: Heirloom, Documentation or Junk: What to Keep or Toss
Thank you to those who entered my giveaway contest here on my blog. I hope to have other fun giveaways in the future.
This year I had one required question to enter my giveaway:
How old were you when you first became interested in family history / genealogy?
Of the giveaway entrants:
34% became interested before the age of 13
48% became interested before the age of 19
78% became interested before the age of 30
The youngest was age 2 and the oldest was age 50.
I'm going to write future posts about those who are interested in family history in their youth.
I utilized Rafflecopter to run the giveaway. To select the winner the Rafflecopter software utilizes Random.org to ensure true randomness. I shared my blog post organically via Facebook and received 455 Facebook views from the shared post on my Facebook page; I also shared via Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.
For some more numbers, that may be interesting only to me:
186 people viewed the blog post
47 people entered the giveaway
158 entries from those 47 people
Two of the entry options of my giveaway were to come back to my blog everyday and read another post and/or visit the RootsTech website and identify another class; which resulted in one/two additional entries each day.
The winner had 5 entries. The most entries had by one person was 7.
This year I had about half of the social views as last year, but nearly double the amount of entrants.
Thank you again for participating in my giveaway! I look forward to seeing you at RootsTech 2019!
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I am a 2019 RootsTech Ambassador and have received a free conference registration from RootsTech.
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