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Project Recipes at ProjectkinUsing a Potluck to Spark Family Storytelling with Cynthia NimsOur guest today, Cynthia Nims joined us from her home kitchen in Seattle Washington. Cynthia is the voice behind two delightful Substack publications, SeafoodSavvy and LongLivetheRecipeBox, and her website of the same name. As a published food writer, and cookbook author, and teacher, Cynthia brings her unique appreciation for food, gatherings, and the conversations they evoke. Among the guests joining me in today’s program and the discussion were Anna Scheutz from Sweden, Linda Teather and Marci Keats Rudolph 🇨🇦 from Canada, and Diane Burley from the US. Few things combine to unlock memories more effectively than the sensoria...
2025-07-1056 min
Specials at ProjectkinStory Magic: Reframing family history storytelling in ProjectsWith just over a year of exploring ideas as Projectkin.org, it seemed time to circle back and share the larger picture about the storytelling hook that has motivated the endeavor. As the Projectkin Community Forum, we’re on a campaign to get families to share their stories. Big or small, family stories are important to capture and preserve for future generations, adding our stories to those we’ve inherited from generations before us. Your stories may only be contained in artifacts with little context or identifications, or they might be published in a written narrative arc. As y...
2024-11-1458 min
Specials at ProjectkinFun with Genealogy!Each of these events in our six-part series seems to build on the others as we all share insights and compare notes on topics from interviewing to engaging family. This morning’s event was no exception as Sindi Terrien, author of Genealogy Fun While Developing New Genealogists joined us to talk about the more general topic of having fun with genealogy. As with so many of our events, we quickly had ideas, links and ideas flying around. You can pick up many of these from the transcript ☝️ above, but to make it easy, here are the links I caug...
2024-03-0231 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » A Scavenger Hunt for AncestorsThese project recipe events have become central to what we do here at Projectkin. They give us a way to share — in detail — what makes a family history project work. Today’s event centered on the idea of an interactive, multigenerational activity and was led by Projectkin member Anna Scheutz. Anna had mentioned these during one of our more creative Project Clinic events. With a few requests, she agreed to share the idea here in a project recipe. From the recording above and the linked transcript, I’ll call out a few important notes: * The...
2023-12-0755 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » Dress Your AncestorsThe concept for “Dress Your Ancestors” starts with the idea that an old photograph of a beloved ancestor can be the starting point for an investigation into the life they lived. When you think about their experiences, it’s as if you were dressing them the way you might dress a paper doll. Your work will give thoughtful consideration to who they were, where they lived, and whom they might interact with.This approach perfectly suits the challenge of combining facts to bring an ancestor's story to life and is the spirit of the Swedish idiom, “Klä på dina...
2023-09-281h 01