Thank you to my guest today, Diane Burley of Musings of a Storyteller, all of you, jerry_mills, Jill Swenson, Marian Beaman, Lori Olson White, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone, Lynette, Jane Chapman, Susanna Minton Graham, Deborah Carl, Kyla Bayang, Lisa Rex, Gwynn Socolich, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Rob Melton, and so many others of you joining today from your homes and offices around the world.
I can’t tell you how much it means to us to see you join us from the cold of winter in Calgary, Canada, to the approach of Fall in Wellington, NZ. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this global community together. Were you there? Did I miss you? The chat isn’t captured, but your additions can be by dropping them into the comments below.
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RootsTech Ride Along Livestream Series
Since I’m doing these daily for a little while, I’ll keep my notes a bit shorter, highlighting elements not discussed in the previous episodes.
Don’t miss that moment when Kyla shows us how to share a screen in a Livestream. Wow, it works!
The full set of recordings will also be posted to my YouTube Channel at @Projectkin. Clips (suitable for sharing) are on YouTube Shorts and always accessible at Projectkin.org/shorts.
Today’s Tips and Takeaways
If you don’t yet know Diane and her work at Musings of a Storyteller, you won’t want to miss it. She was a journalist writing about technology companies. She’s now bringing her no-nonsense view of sourcing facts and writing narratives to explore the remarkable story of her grandmother, Leonora, and her role in the Labor movement at the turn of the last century.
In our conversation, she mentioned a couple of recent stories of hers, including this one about statistics, sourcing, and the FamilySearch database:
Diane has also been my guest as a speaker in the Stories250 series for two of her stories. One was a harrowing tale about the family of an ancestor, Timothy Lewis Durkee, who fought in the Revolutionary War, “The Raid on Royalton.” The other was about an ancestor on the Dutch line she mentioned, Jane Ryerson. That piece shares the vivid experience of the families of militia men and soldiers left at home, “Jane Ryerson: Revolutionary War Wife and Flame Keeper.” Here’s our conversation:
Ride Along Ready! 🚙💨
From the start, Geneabloggers and Projectkin have shared a passion for family history and storytelling since the beginning. We both see the extraordinary value of pursuing this work with the support and encouragement of a community. So, with RootsTech approaching, it only made sense to do this together. Have suggestions for us? Drop me a note or an email (see Projectkin.org).
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