Comparing In-person and Online Experiences at RootsTech

My In-Person Experience at Rootstech
 Several Years Ago in 2015

There is no comparison for Me
Physically I am no longer able to travel. I use a walker. My knees give out even using that walker. I've lost 80 lbs since the photo of 2015. The walker is smaller, I am smaller, my budget is smaller, and so the Online experience is FABULOUS!!!!!

FOR EXAMPLE:

While watching a Main Stage Performance, I cried, learned new things and began asking myself questions that I'd never thought of before today. Like, There is now a Foster Care app for finding family members (I used to befriend a fostered girl for several years, who eventually found her parents, married and now has children):

 or when world reknowned photographer Me Ra Koh sponsored by Sony told her story with the most exquisite photos that I've ever seen, said "Shadows define light" and "Our story is Worth Everything!" and the "world is desparate for authenticity, it rang true! She and her team ask close relatives about the person who is to be photographed, then they arrange the session and tell that person how the others described them. And the resulting photo revealed a unique voice or rather captured resilence, that continues to inspire. I have had photos taken that did that same thing for me and my grandson.