2024 Program

Events take place in the Upstairs Hall of the Hinckley Center

9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:05 a.m. Keynote

Anna Scius-Bertrand (University of Fribourg and HES-SO)

9:45 a.m. Developer Talks / Research Talks (15 minutes each)

• Storied Biography Extraction Technology - Laryn Brown
• Connected Cities - Mike Ostler
• LivingHistory.AI - Jonathan Gibson
• EmulateMe - Ariel Mathov

10:45 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Developer Talks/Research Talks (10 Minutes Each)

• Head Tail Open: Open Tailed Classification of Imbalanced Document Data - Chetan Joshi, Lawry Sorenson
• Seth Stewart (FamilySearch)
• The Impact of Family History Technology on Social and Emotional Well-being - Emma Ausman, Isabella Stephens, Christian Hall
• Goldie May - Richard Miller

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Lightning Talks (3 minutes each)

• Our Beginnings - Jonah Austin
• Powerlinker - Zarin Losli
• Yellow temple project - Tiberius Baker
• Segmenting US census records - Jackson Roubidoux
• US Surname Lexicon - Spencer Timmerman
• Using family history tasks to create meaningful employment - Meg Wright
• Sparse-data linking with land records - Zach Flynn
• Related App - Ryan Parker
• User-friendly family history textbook - Kristilee J. Manuel
• Using Google Bard to Translate 133 Languages - James Tanner
• Family Tree Validator - Bob Scott
• Kindex - Kimball Clark
• Family Migration Research Using FamilySearch Data: Updates and Potentials - Sam Otterstrom

2:00 p.m. Afternoon Break

2:15 p.m. Developer Talks / Research Talks (15 Minutes)

• Weakly Supervised Information Extraction from Semi-Structured Document Images - Gernot Fink
• Universal Foundational “Large” Language Models for Learning Genealogical Processes from Inception - Patrick Schone
• Extracting Handwritten Historical Data from Registry Forms - Jade Martinez
• Manuscript Fragments, Reused in Bindings, and Untapped Genealogical Sources -David Black
• A Prototype for Splitting Munged Persons in Family Tree - Randy Wilson

3:15-3:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks