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Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Bill Moore as Stories250 as Guest for the Stories250 SeriesThank you, Rob Riley, Anne’s Family History, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA Shell Norman, Jennifer Jones, Jane Chapman, Julie Wolf, Kathleen Carris Conti Dr. Koral LaVorgna, Marci Keats Rudolph 🙏, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Diane Burley, Kyla Bayang and so many of you for joining me in welcoming our guest today, Bill Moore. What a thrill to welcome you all from Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. These 250-year-old stories still touch the hearts of descendants across the English-speaking diaspora.Today’s program was the third in our Stories250 series. Your generous ❤️s, restacks...
2025-10-2730 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: The View from Kathy's CornerHuzzah! Thank you Linda Teather, Jennifer Jones, Bill Moore, Jane Chapman, Ann Larkham, MamaCarole, Lynda Heines, LaCreshia Griffin-Pope, Anne Young of Anne’s Family History, and so many more of you for joining us today. I can’t tell you how much it means to us to see you join us from the beaches of Scotland across the Americas to the outback of Australia. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement is the glue that holds this community together.Projectkin programming is offered free with the kind support of our Patrons worldwide. Explore our story and join us 👇.
2025-09-2128 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Kyla Bayang as Guest for the Stories250 SeriesMany thanks to Linda Teather, Jennifer Jones, Chris Hodge, Beth zurbuchen, Jane Chapman, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, Strauss Debra, Melba Olsen, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, Leslie Still, Corlett, and so many of you for joining me in welcoming our guest today, Kyla Bayang. You’re a remarkable audience from Canada and the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It’s a testament to how these 250-year-old stories touch the hearts of descendants across the English-speaking diaspora. Today’s program was the second in our Stories250 series that will take us to the 250th Fourth of July in 2026, when A...
2025-09-1435 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Speakers’ Corner Preview with Bill Moore and Aryn YounglessThank you Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Crystal Lorimor, Anne’s Family History, Lori Olson White, Linda Teather, Julia Jane Heckles, Kathy Stone, Jane ChapmanEmily Gravelle, Paula Collins, Naomi Yaeger, Chris Hodge, Michele Bewley, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, Alan H Zeller, Diane Burley Alex Daw, Anne Wendel, Danine and many others for tuning into Jennifer Jones’ live video with Bill Moore and Aryn Youngless! Projectkin is a free publication supported by the generous contributions of our Patrons. Learn more at Projectkin.org/aboutYour generous ❤️ s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publicati...
2025-09-0724 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: A Sidebar on Difficult Stories with Shell NormanThank you Jennifer Jones, Robin Stewart, Diane Burley, Lisa Maguire, Kevin E Beasley, Chris Wright, Linda Teather, Kyla Bayang, Erin Hoover, Marci Keats Rudolph 🇨🇦, Jane Chapman, Kristin Rapinac, Barbara Jean May, Anne’s Family History, Kathy Stone, Lynda Heines, Mary Hardenbergh, and so many more! Projectkin is a free publication supported by the generous contributions of our Patrons. Join us for more of these programs: Projectkin.org/events.Your generous ❤️ s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. Thanks for all you do to be so kin...
2025-09-0129 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Preview with Jane Chapman, Stories250 at the Time of the RevolutionWhat a delight to see Bill Moore, Kyla Bayang, Kathy Stone, Maur Murray, Deborah Walker, Marian Lippard, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Robin Stewart Anne’s Family History, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, and Dr. Mary M. Marshall help me in welcoming my guest today, Jane Chapman. This was a special event because it allowed us to kick off this new Stories250 series that will take us to the 250th Fourth of July in 2026, when Americans celebrate the founding of our country based on an idea—the Declaration of Independence. It’s an important event and a great joy to celebrat...
2025-08-1828 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Emma Explores Preview (Special Time!)Wow, many thanks to Dr. Mary M. Marshall, jennifer pinder, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone, PamC, Erin Hoover, Bill Moore, Annette Gendler, Jude Rhodes, David Shaw, Paul Hawthorne, Lisa Maguire, and all of you who joined us live for this special time and broadcast. It was lovely seeing you on a Friday. Stay tuned for timing as we refine the best times/days to do these sessions. Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. Truly, thank you!Learn more at Projectkin.org/abou...
2025-08-1534 min
Specials at ProjectkinSpecial » Family History Asks Large Questions in Small Places — Lisa MaguireMany thanks to Lisa Maguire for her fascinating program today and for all of you in attendance, including Ann G. Forcier, Anne Young, Daniel Nilan, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Jane Chapman, Jill Swenson, Linda Teather, Mark Hochstetler, Wendi Funchess, Lisa E Oakley, Lori Olson White, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, and so many in our community for joining the talk live today. Have you just discovered Projectkin? Learn more at Projectkin.org/about, then join us 👇 Today’s very special event came together through the magic we’re brewing here in a shared community of family...
2025-08-0856 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live | Preview: Large Questions in Small Places with Lisa MaguireThank you Kathy Stone, Jane Chapman, Sarkis, Ann G. Forcier, Saphyre, Ruth Stroud, Daniel Nilan, Dominus Owen Markham, and so many more, for joining us this afternoon. I truly appreciate your taking time from your busy day to join us live. Your enthusiastic participation makes these programs so much fun. We enjoyed sharing this afternoon with you.Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re welcome to share this video post to invite friends and family to join us!Learn more a...
2025-08-0331 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Preview "The Scoop on Memories" with Diane BurleyThank you Jennifer Jones, Linda Teather, Jane Chapman, Tim McGlue, Bill Moore, The Family Histories Podcast, Shelley Lieber, Lester Larrabee, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Brodee Myers-Cooke, Nancy Feagans, Naomi Yaeger, and so many more. Your enthusiastic participation makes these programs so much fun. We enjoyed sharing this afternoon with you. Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re welcome to share this video post to invite friends and family to join us!Learn more at Projectkin.org/about & join us!....
2025-07-2728 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Handling the “Overwhelm” » July 2025As Projectkin, we’re hooked on family history stories. So often, these stories start with the stuff left for us by our ancestors. In Kathy’s Corner, Projectkin contributor Kathy Stone, helps us sort through and make sense of these materials with insights learned in her decades of experience as a professional photo organizer. Explore our calendar for coming events here.Was this shared with you? Welcome! Learn more about our community at Projectkin.org/about. Then, join us!Managing expectations can be the key to sticking with your goals of organizing and main...
2025-07-251h 02
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: The View from Kathy's CornerThank you Kyla Bayang, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, Bethalee Klopfleisch, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Bill Moore, Paula Collins, Ann Larkham, Alan H Zeller, Naomi Yaeger, Lynda Heines, Tom Hendricks, and, of course, also from Calgary, Linda Teather and so many more… It was lovely to share this afternoon with all of you.Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re welcome to share this video post to invite friends and family to join us!On this cold and cloudy day in the San F...
2025-07-2029 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: A Peek at the Speakers’ Corner Queue with Jennifer JonesThank you Danine, Jane Chapman, Kathy Stone, Alan H Zeller, Emily Gravelle, Anne’s Family History, The Family Histories Podcast, Alex Daw, Greg WoodhouseNancy Feagans and so many others for joining us live! Along with your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares, you have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re more than welcome to share this to invite friends and family to join us!It was a delight to share this sunny California Sunday with Projectkin member, and now Speakers' Corner producer, Jennifer Jones. Jennifer is the voice be...
2025-07-1433 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live | The View from Kathy's Corner: Photos and Your Family HistoryThank you Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Andrea Montgomery, Bill Moore, Jim Bowers Kyla Bayang, David Shaw, Maud Boom, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Marian Beaman and of course, also from Calgary, Linda Teather.…. It was lovely to share this afternoon with all of you. Along with your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares, you have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re more than welcome to share this to invite friends and family to join us!On this sunny day in Berkeley and Calgary, my dear fri...
2025-06-2931 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: This week at Kathy's Corner and Coming Soon, the Speakers’ Corner!Thank you, Kathy Stone, Bill Moore, Lori Olson White, Richard Francis Hogan, Iowa Roots, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Taneya Koonce, Jane Chapman, Story Carrier, Ryan Shields and all of you who joined us live today. It’s always a delight to feel your warmth and support! Along with your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares you have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re more than welcome to share this as a way to invite friends and family to join us!Today, as with each of these programs, we focus...
2025-06-2230 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinLIVE » A Look 👀 at the Week Ahead!I was delighted to see that the Substack support team were able to pluck this video from the abyss. I’m reposting it with the comments I circulated without the recording Sundaay afternoon.Greetings from my summer garden, cooled by an ocean breeze here in Berkeley, California. Many thanks to those joining today from locations ranging from Aberdeen, Scotland, to central Australia and Wellington, New Zealand. So good to see you joining us, Ann Larkham, Linda Teather, Jennifer Jones, Lynda Heine, Bill Moore, Lori Olson White, David Shaw, Ann Shettles, j.e. moyer, LPC, and so...
2025-06-1523 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: This week—“ABC” Ancestor Bios with Randy SeaverThank you so much for joining us today. So many of your names flew by faster than I could follow, but I know I saw you, Jennifer Jones from tomorrow morning in Australia, and Jane Chapman in New Zealand. Meanwhile, this afternoon across Canada and the US, we watched as Bill Moore, Lisa Maguire, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone Emily Gravelle, Kyla Bayang, Dan our Genealogy Assistant, and gosh Paula Collins, B Toni and so many more chimed in. 😊 Truly, it was lovely to see so many friendly, welcoming profiles. I love using these sessions to give you a p...
2025-06-0829 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: War and Healing with Jennifer Holik & Mission: Genealogy Q&AThank you so much for joining us from across the Americas, Bill Moore, Linda Teather, Kathy Stone, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, DearMYRTLE, Lori Olson White, and out into the Pacific, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, and Diane the FH Bowerbird, and so many of you whose names flew by faster than I could thank. Truly, it was lovely seeing you join us. As we step into June, we’re doing so with an eye to remembrances. We had our Memorial Day in the US last week, and earlier in May came the WWII celebrations for VE Day eighty ye...
2025-06-0122 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: A L👀k Ahead with Special Announcement from Kathy Stone!Thank you Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Story Carrier, Jane Chapman, Jennifer Jones, DearMYRTLE, Iain Mackie, and so many others for tuning into our Projectkin live stream today.As we got started, we shared a little about the week ahead including tomorrow, Memorial Day here in the United States where we recognize the contributions of those who’ve given their lives in the service of this country. You’ll see more about that in posts in the coming week. Tomorrow, Monday is our next Mondays with DearMYRTLE. These fun programs bring the genealogy community together and occu...
2025-05-2530 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Kathy's Corner PreviewThank you Jane Chapman, Lori Olson White, Christopher Padgett, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, Daniel Nilan, Ann Larkham, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Jill Swenson, Iain Mackie, and many others for tuning into my Projectkin live stream today. It is always fun to talk to Kathy Stone, but special today as we used the session for a preview of this week’s Kathy’s Corner. This popular monthly session focuses on a challenge for every family historian: Sorting and digitizing collections of inherited family photos and artifacts. You can explore past episodes of Kathy’s Corner at Projectkin.org/kathys-corner. L...
2025-05-1927 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with Kathy StoneThank you to everyone who tuned in to my live video! It was lovely to see so many of you join us for today’s program: From my east here in California… Ann Larkham in the north of Scotland, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, and Lynda Heines here in the US, Linda Teather, in Calgary (with our own Kathy Stone) and moving to my west across the Pacific to, Jane Chapman, in Wellington, New Zealand, and Jennifer Jones from Victoria in Australia. Welcome to so many of you joining from places in between. It never gets old for me t...
2025-04-2031 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with Jennifer JonesThank you Kathy Stone, Linda Teather, and really all of you for joining us in today. These sessions are always a fun way to stay connected as a community and look ahead to the coming week. As you probably know, you can now use the Substack app 👇 for mobile devices to view and record your own Live sessions. For our family history community, I’ve also posted a recording about Getting Started with Live in our January program MissionGenealogy.org/office-hours.I’ve discovered that by tracking the chat thread on my desktop browser while broadca...
2025-04-1336 min
Specials at ProjectkinOne-Place Studies Workshop » Part 2: Taking it Further with Janet BarrieToday’s workshop took us deeper into the practice of one-place studies. This presentation builds on the high-level view Janet Barrie shared in part one you can view here: This second part focused on the idea of “Taking it Further.” In this program, Janet draws examples from her study at Springhill, Higher Cloughfold, Lancashire, to show how you walk through the last of the ten steps to One-Place Studies articulated by Janet Few: * Analyzing your data* Synthesizing your data* Contextualizing your findings* Spreading the word* Enthusing othersJ...
2025-04-031h 01
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: About One-Place Studies with Guests Jane Chapman & Bill MooreThank you Crystal Lorimor, Saphyre, Anne’s Family History, Bill Moore, and many others for tuning into my live video with Bill Moore and Jane Chapman! By focusing on One-Place Studies, we have a chance to get everyone focused on the potential for this extraordinary approach to family history storytelling. Today’s program is in anticipation of our workshop on Thursday, April 2nd, with Janet Barrie, chair of the Society for One-Place Studies. It might have been difficult to follow along with links to the sites Bill and Jane referenced. To be sure you have ready access, plea...
2025-03-3031 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead!These live sessions with all of you chiming in create a wonderful way to plan for the week ahead. Today, we focused on two programs ahead this week: Forget Me Not: How We Memorialise | Ailsa PiperIn the last of Jane Hutcheon’s six-part Forget-Me-Not series, Jane interviews Ailsa Piper. Ailsa is a well-known actor, director, audiobook narrator, and writer in Australia. After her husband died suddenly, Ailsa focused on the art of moving forward. Her latest book, "For Life," is a moving exploration of loss, hope, and starting again.* Our program is fr...
2025-03-1727 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin LIVE Video Chat with Myrt from @DearMyrtleMany thanks to the score of you who could join us live from your mobile devices or now the web. Your warm greetings and joyous participation are what make these sessions such fun. Though the sessions are only available as they happen to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. You can access the full archive of these programs at Projectkin.org/live.Since these recordings can be viewed and shared with anyone, I always try to include useful links so that others follow along with the resources we mentioned.
2025-02-1730 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinHoward & Elvira: Love and the German Chocolate CakeLori Olson White, known in our community for her incredible publications, The Lost & Found Story Box and Culinary History is Family History, prepared for us today a fantastic film to tell her family story about Howard & Elvira and their love expressed in the form of a cake. After 60 years, the story took a twist that made it more memorable. You recognize from classics like O’Henry’s The Gift of the Magi. After watching Lori’s film, several audience members engaged in a lively discussion, sharing family stories, recipes, favorite Substack publications, and more. To start us off, Lor...
2025-02-131h 04
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinA Brief Chat in the Livestream with Janet BarrieThough the sessions are only available as they happen to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. You can access the full archive of these programs at Projectkin.org/live.To watch these sessions live, you must be a member and download the Substack app. However, don’t worry—it’s free, as is the Projectkin subscription membership.This week, we caught up with Janet Barrie, Chair of the Society for One-Place Studies. Janet will be our guest at the first of a series of two talks on Thursday, February 6th, in...
2025-02-0323 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinA Brief Chat in the Livestream with Jane HutcheonAs we all navigate new experiences and tools, these live sessions have become a fun way to connect personally and spontaneously. Though the live sessions are only available to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. On my home page, I’ve endeavored to keep the focus on the current week’s recording, but you can access the archive at Projectkin.org/live. You’ll have to download the Substack app to watch these sessions live. Don’t worry. It’s free, as is the Projectkin subscription membership. This week, we caught up...
2025-01-2722 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinA Brief Chat in the Livestream with Kathy StoneWhat fun to see so many of you taking the time out of your busy Sunday afternoon or Monday morning to join us for a look at the week ahead. Thank you for joining us!If this Substack Live thing is new to you, take a moment to download the Substack app 👇 If you have a publication of your own, you can host your own Substack Live session. As you’ll see ☝️ it’s fun and easy! Oh, and did I mention it was free?One thing to note… the recording starts abruptly. That’s a tad awkward...
2025-01-2027 min
Specials at ProjectkinPush & Pull of Platforms: Storytelling in blogs, newsletters & websitesToday’s program was new for us with a conversational format and topic focused on platforms. Conversation Among Members Today, we’re including two Projectkin members talking about their experiences using multiple platforms to share their stories:* Jennifer Jones of Victoria, Australia. Jennifer moved her long-time blog, Tracking Down the Family from WordPress to Substack and is now considering bringing her One Place Study to the WeAre.xyz One-Place Study (OPS) platform and combining it with Substack.* Jane Chapman of Wellington, New Zealand. Jane has two family history archives and a one...
2025-01-101h 01
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin's first Sunday LIVE!Well, now, THAT was fun. A hearty debt of thanks to the dozen or so of you who were able to join us for our very first WEEKLY Projectkin Substack LIVE program.The idea here is to have a simple broadcast out there you can choose to preview if you’d like with what’s coming each week. Like many of the features here in Substack, I’ve discovered that I can’t figure them out by reading about them, I have to just play with them. So far, (and with your kind support) it’s been working ou...
2025-01-0615 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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » How to Choose an Organizing Program » June 2024Today’s lively discussion started with a reference to Projectkin member Jane Hutcheon’s post, The Ghost Keeper, and Jane's question about how to clean a carte de visite. Listen for her thoughtful answer.Kathy then focused on the criteria for deciding which software or app to use for organizing photos. In the leadup to this discussion, she referenced an article written in May 2023, just as the Ponga software platform was taken offline. That “5-Elements” article defined key criteria for evaluating platforms for your photos.As the discussion revealed, the key lies in an understanding of ...
2024-06-281h 07
Specials at Projectkin“Beginning, Middle & End” with Jane Hutcheon » Family Stories Special EventToday’s program was a “taster” for her upcoming series of three workshops. Learn more about the series. Register here.“Picnic basket” of ResourcesAt the beginning of the program, you’ll note that Jane references her “Yogi Bear School of Family Storytelling.” She’s followed that up with a little picnic basket of goodies just for you, starting with these two downloadable bits of fun:And to be sure you could follow up with her many references, here are links to many of the programs, books, and recordings she mentions: More about Lost in...
2024-05-1055 min