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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Feb. 9, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TapGenes walked away with $45,000 in cash and prizes as the first place winner in the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, one of the top innovator...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, is looking forward to over 20,000 visitors over four days with an exciting array of...

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch International, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the Afro-American Historical and...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the largest family history conference in the world, announced Doris Kearns Goodwin has joined its lineup of keynote speakers. Goodwin, a...

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch's Family History Library (FHL) in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on October 23, 2015. When the new...

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RootsTech, the world's largest family history and technology conference, is now accepting entries for the 2016 Innovator Showdown—a "Global...

SALT LAKE CITY, July 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A record-setting 100,000 online volunteers are expected to participate in the second annual Worldwide Indexing Event, facilitating millions of...

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, April 13, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Imagine a free virtual online library of rare historical books from all over the world to help you discover rich, unknown details about the...

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoryWorth, a San Francisco start up company that offers an email-based storytelling service, today swept the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, winning...

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- If you could share ONE story about your grandma, what would it be? That's the question nonprofit FamilySearch International (FamilySearch.org) is...