Day one of RootsTech 2026 is officially in the books, and I have fifteen online sessions, a stack of in-person slides, and a very full Obsidian notebook to prove it. In this RootsTech 2026 Day 1 recap, I’m walking through everything I watched as a virtual attendee – from Polish records and the Genealogical Proof Standard to DNA FAN Club methodology and Ancestry’s newest features. Some sessions ran under 20 minutes. One ran a full hour and earned every second. Two of them are already on my rewatch list. This is what a full day of virtual RootsTech looks like when you show up with a system, a plan, and enough coffee to get through it. Welcome to the Bunny Slipper Brigade.