FamilyLink.com at the St. George "My Ancestors Found" Expo Feb 8-9 '08

FamilyLink.com, Inc. and WorldVitalRecords.com had a memorable event at the St. George "My Ancestors Found" Conf. Feb 8-9, 2008.


This was a great winter time get away for us from Northern Utah. When we left Provo it was snowing! We arrived in St. George to beautiful spring like weather. It was warm but had recently snowed on the beautiful red rock mountains above St. George. The colors of Red, White, and Blue were very vivid. The sky was clear and cobalt blue.

One of the first people that I ran into after we got there was Dear Myrtle. I gave her a big hug and thanked her for her designation of WorldVitalRecords.com as the BEST Database Site. She did this in her BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award on 3 Feb 2008. I later had a chance to sit down and visit with her in her booth.

This was the first conference that we had our new booth. I sure like how it looks and how it represents our company and products. The booth is fairly quick and easy to set up and it down. This is Amy and Ryan setting up the booth.

The new booth turned out to be a hit. It was always a busy beehive of activity. We had numerous compliments on the form and function of the booth, even from my friends at Ancestry.com. We had so much traffic to our booth that we have decided to double out booth space from 10x10 to 20x10 for next years conference.

We had our new video playing non-stop on a projector in our booth. Our video touches people in a way that they can relate to. As I watch people that are viewing the video, they are all nodding their heads to indicate that they have the same feeling about doing their family history research. RootsTV has uploaded the video to their site. So our WorldVitalRecords.com video is now on YouTube and RootsTV.

We had numerous opportunities for FamilyLink representatives to speak to large groups of genealogy enthusiasts. Yvette Arts, Jason McGowan, and I addressed large crowds.











Now that we have over 25,000 subscribers to WorldVitalRecords.com and over 50,000 members on FamilyLink.com, and over 2 million users four Facebook applications such as "We're Related" and "Family Groups" everyone seems to know who we are. I spoke with a lady that she was one of our first members and she talked with me at last year's St. George expo and requested that we add several new features. We have since added those features to our web sites and she thanked me for listening.

Probably due to our increased profile in the industry and our success at putting 6,000 databases with 1 billion names on line, we now have a steady stream of organizations and individuals that want to license their content to us. In the early days of our company (last year) it was sometimes a tough sell to get content owners to license their content to us. This is good news to our subscribers as our content pipeline is growing and flowing.

As a sponsor of the St. George "My Ancestors Found" Expo and CD syllabus, we will be able to make the electronic syllabus available for our users as a reference on WorldVitalRecords.com. Watch our newsletter for when we announce upcoming content on our site.