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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
Specials at ProjectkinOne-Place Studies Workshop » Part 1: Getting Up & Running with Janet BarrieIn September 2024, Projectkin was honored by the opportunity to be a co-sponsor of the collaborative program “All About That Place” featuring the Society for One-Place Studies, the Society of Genealogists, the British Association for Local History, and Genealogy Stories and sponsored by dozens of other companies and organizations. Our focus for the program was to help spread the idea of One-Place Studies to regions outside of Britain and specifically across the Americas and the Pacific, so we called ours the Pacific Edition. An interest in the series and the approach led me to invite Janet Barrie, the curr...
2025-02-061h 06
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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores November Preview!You may already know that Emma Cox is an extraordinary genealogist. You may not know what an adventurer she is—always willing to try the next shiny new toy. Emma - Journeys into Genealogy was gracious enough today to experiment with me with this new live program to highlight her upcoming Emma Explores program on Thursday, November 21st.In today’s program, you’ll hear about* What she has planned for this month’s episode about the actors, theatre, and Hollywood people in her family tree — and how to explore them on your own!* How th...
2024-11-0710 minWeekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinEmma Explores November Preview!You may already know that Emma Cox is an extraordinary genealogist. You may not know what an adventurer she is—always willing to try the next shiny new toy. Emma - Journeys into Genealogy was gracious enough today to experiment with me with this new live program to highlight her upcoming Emma Explores program on Thursday, November 21st.In today’s program, you’ll hear about* What she has planned for this month’s episode about the actors, theatre, and Hollywood people in her family tree — and how to explore them on your own!* How th...
2024-11-0710 min