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Specials at ProjectkinGetting Your Family Into Your ProjectsVictoria MacGregor of Victoria's Press, joined us today to pick up on a conversation largely started a year or more ago when she was an active participant in our online events for a now-offline platform, Ponga. Victoria started her talk with background on what brought us all together just over three years ago and a thread she followed led her to a black dog and the Black Dog Pub. You’ll get hooked into her story as we were, but it provided an excellent introduction to the larger question of the motivations for family history research, storytelling, an...
2024-03-0240 min
Specials at ProjectkinMy journey to capture my family legacyI was delighted to welcome Projectkin member, genealogist, and storyteller, Karla Von Fumetti Staudt (Karla VF Staudt) as our speaker this morning. Karla described her own journey from the boxes of her grandfather’s papers to a modern system of shared archives. Her story touches on familiar stones: * That moment when her dad looked at her and said, “we have to do something,” * To the point when after she’d collected a room full of archives her husband said, “what are you going to do with all this stuff.” The answer, as you’ll le...
2024-03-0231 min
Specials at ProjectkinAsking your loved ones for the storiesOur two sessions yesterday “My journey to capture my family legacy” with Karla VF Staudt and “Getting Your Family Into Your Projects” with Victoria's Press got us excited about the story gems our family members had yet to share. Karen Ray of RememberingtheTime.net stepped in today share what she characterized as 8 tips for asking your loved ones for those interesting, important, and simply amusing stories. You can tap for the searchable transcript above ☝️, but I’ll get you started here with my notes… which curiously ran to a nice round 20 tips!* Give your interview subject time to...
2024-03-0229 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