Speaker Spotlight: Robert Raymond, Session W-150, “Using Excel to Create Timelines”

This session demonstrates how to create several different timelines in Excel. Some are powerful and some are simple. There are those with strong utility and those with beautiful aesthetics. One type provides powerful correlation capability. Another clearly communicates where events sit in the passage of time.

Robert Raymond is a deputy to FamilySearch Chief Genealogical Officer, David Rencher, and a member of the National Genealogical Society’s Board of Directors. Robert works to increase the genealogical soundness of FamilySearch products. He also helps set the record collection acquisition and publication strategy.

Robert is a popular speaker and writer. His blog (authored pseudonymically) has won many awards and recognitions and is consistently ranked among the top ten genealogical blogs. He is the author of an acclaimed family history website where he has published hundreds of digitized genealogical records and personal histories, written numerous articles, and created several maps. Before FamilySearch, Robert worked at Ancestry.com and before that was vice president of an award-winning technology company.

Robert is a genealogy technologist with more than 40 years experience in genealogy and 30 years in technology. Robert holds over a dozen technology patents and earned a master’s degree in electrical (computer) engineering from Brigham Young University where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar. He is a volunteer at a FamilySearch Center where he can be found in the trenches every Wednesday night.

Speaker Spotlight: Robert Raymond, Session W-150, “Using Excel to Create Timelines”