RootsTech 2016: Steve Rockwood - You Are The Heart Doctors For Your Family

Here are some of my takeaways from this session:

• Everyone lives on in stories, pictures, and lessons.
• Focus on the person (not the search)
• Reach their hearts in 60 seconds
• What have you felt?
• Feelings are core and profound
• Feel belonging and love
• You are inspired and can be inspiring
• Make family history relevant to your immediate family

5 experience areas

Reach out to people's hearts - you are heart doctors for your family - this is a gathering of heart specialists. 

What are the "funny ties" that will build family ties?

Weave family history into everyday life.

You can watch his comments here:


I had the opportunity to participate in a Media Hub Sofa Chat with Steve.

Here are some of my takeaways from the chat:

• How do we bring all members of the family into family history?
• Going global to soften the soil for new markets.
• Fine tuning each of the 5 experiences over time.
• Teenagers and millennials want to give back right now.
• Mobile will be first in new technologies.
• Focusing on "searchable" records.
• Every family has members to fulfill all the different roles.
• We've created the tree, now we need to embellish it with ornaments (photos, stories).

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