Thank you to my guest today, Kathy Stone of Kathy’s Coaching, all of you online, Jenny Redman, Jennifer Jones, Kristin Rapinac, Bill Moore, D Carlile, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Lori Olson White, Daniel Nilan, 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 across the planet. 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.
Projectkin programming is offered free with the kind support of our Patrons worldwide. Explore our story and join us 👇.
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. Increasingly, these conversations are starting to stretch from one livestream to the next. In case you missed them, my last one in this series was with Diane Burley:
But you might also hear about two more from our committed travelers… see these on the RideAlongPartners.org recordings page.
* Kyla Bayang of RootSquadRoundup invited me to join her this morning as she waited at the gate at HOU on her way to SLC.
* Last night, DearMYRTLE of the DearMYRTLE Village Square had me join her on a Mini-Myrt from her hotel room at SEATAC airport (Seattle/Tacoma). She left this morning for SLC.
Today’s Tips and Takeaways
Probably the biggest takeaway from today’s conversation is that the momentum is growing and everyone is getting a little loopy. As you’ll see in the recording, we were having a great time. If you don’t already know Kathy, you can find her at her publication:
As she described it, she’s taking a reverse approach to genealogy by starting with an extensive collection of photographs. That led our gathered participants to trade notes on the best way to manage a family tree and the multiple online trees.
⮕ IS there a single tool that lets you update multiple online trees at the same time? Wikitree.com holds out some hope for providing a cross-platform glue with citations.
From there, we got giggly considering ways to connect our on-site colleagues with the online crew in commemorative photographs. Soon, we were comparing notes for ways to merge online and onsite gatherings with everything from an incarnation of “Flat Stanley” to “face-sticks.” Good times.
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.
Tomorrow’s a big day at RootsTech before official events get started. Check out the Ride Along calendar: three livestreams, one of which (Mondays with Myrt) is even held onsite! Then there’s a lunch onsite, too, on Tuesday. Wow. Even if you can’t join us for all of them, do pop in on the recordings and comments. This is already more fun together.
Have suggestions for us? Drop me a note or an email (see Projectkin.org).
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