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One thing to note… the recording starts abruptly. That’s a tad awkward; I’ll see about anticipating that in our next recording future. That’s one of the fun things about doing these weekly: you tend to get better at what practice.
In today’s session, we covered several topics, including two fun new programs coming up this week:
* Tuesday “Pacific Time,” or the afternoon/evening here in the Americas or Wednesday morning in the Pacific Rim, we’ll host the fourth of our remarkable “Forget-me-not: How We Memorialise” series with Jane Hutcheon of the The Juvenile Geriatric. In this week’s episode, Jane will be speaking with Rhonda Lauritzen, a well-known speaker in the Genealogy community, author, and memoir coach at Evalogue.Life. She has two new books out. I can’t wait.
Second is the first 2025 episode for:
* Kathy’s Corner featuring Kathy Stone. As she shared in today’s program, she’ll focus today’s episode on those mystery photos, the ones you just don’t know why they were preserved. Sometimes, those are the most important. Let’s talk about why.
During today’s short program, we referenced several recent articles circulating on Substack, including:
* Archives for Forget-me-not at Projectkin.org/forget-me-not
* Archives for Kathy’s Corner at (surprise) Projectkin.org/kathys-corner
* All events are free, and you can register at Projectkin.org/events. They’re also in almost every case, recorded with recordings shared here with Projectkin members.
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To the Substacks, I remember mentioning during today’s chat (next time, I’ll keep a list handy):
* A conversation about mystery photos and the stories they hide led to a reference to a post by Crystal Lorimor, “Old Picture ID - Your Thoughts?” which led to a whole series of references, including:
* A comment by Lori Olson White which mentioned another post by David Shaw, “Grandma, Uncle Frank and the Red Baron.”
* I’d added a long note mentioning my previous company, Ponga, about strategies to identify who is in a photo. Let me know in a DM if you’re interested in more. I can talk your ear off. 😉
* We talked briefly about the American TikTok ban that wasn’t (or at least not yet) #GenealogyTok, (Cynthia Boatright Raleigh and her TikTok goodbye). The key takeaway was the complications of archives and backups when you use cloud services.
* That also led to a conversation about my post about social media and saying goodbye to X and Meta properties, and the complexity of that when you have deep roots in a community and extensive collections of documents and media on these platforms.
So, that was a lot. I hope you find these notes helpful. I know they help me review the details. I look forward to your thoughts and feedback in the comments.
Join us next week, same live stream time, same live stream channel, as Jane Hutcheon joins me for a conversation about the next two speakers she has planned for her Forget-me-not series. Join us here as a recording, or, live on the Substack app!
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