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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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Metadata and Other Strategies with Guest Maureen Taylor » October 2025Thank you, Bill Moore, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, Faith Van Wart, Lynda HeinesLinda Teather, and so many more for joining us today. Your support, encouragement, and feedback keep us going. Drop a ❤️ below to help these programs reach a larger audience. As 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, it helps us sort through and make sense of our collections of photographs, documents, and other artifacts. Her decades of experience as a professional photo organizer give her special insight into the...
2025-10-241h 06
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Kathy Stone and Lori Olson White Takeover!My deepest thanks to our two special guests for taking over today’s Live program. This allowed me to spend time with my family and celebrate a very special occasion. I’m deeply grateful to these two wonderful friends and their commitment to this Projectkin mission in keeping the programs running. You’re pretty amazing. 🥹 I’ll keep these notes short since I’m still trying to catch up. First, you won’t want to miss the Zoom registration for Thursday’s special, Kathy’s Corner with Maureen Taylor. Maureen’s the Photo Detective, of course, and one of the best exper...
2025-10-1920 min
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Philipps and Fonblanque letters » October 2025Thank you Linda Teather, Bill Moore, Diane Burley, and so many of you for joining us and engaging in the conversation so actively today during Emma Cox’s live presentation. Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. As a bonus, it’s also great fun. Subscribe and get these recordings delivered straight to your inbox.👇 Learn more Projectkin.org/about.Today’s episode sent us back down a warren of rabbit holes as Emma explored her extraordinary family with revelations uncovered fro...
2025-10-1659 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: 7 Ranges GIS Event Preview with Crystal Lorimor and Anthony AtkinsThank you, Bill Moore, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Emily Graves, Dr. Koral LaVorgnaRick Mutton, Bonnie Larson, Diane Wahn Shotton, and many others for tuning into today’s preview with Crystal Lorimor and Anthony Atkins. It was so good of you to join us.If you enjoyed this recording, you’d be doing us a favor by leaving us a little love 🫶 and adding your thoughts in the comments below. If you think it’ll be valuable to others, share it individually or in group pages. Projectkin is free. We always welcome fellow travelers on the path of...
2025-10-1233 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Emma Explores PreviewOn this Friday, before the Monday holidays in the Americas, I was very grateful to Bill Moore and Dr. Mary M. Marshall for their active participation today. Monday is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and here in the United States, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in many states, and Italian heritage or Columbus Day in others. It was a delight to welcome you all to today’s special Friday Substack live program, previewing next week’s Emma Explores program with Emma - Journeys into Genealogy.Your generous ❤️ s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive...
2025-10-1031 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Speakers’ Corner Preview with Lori Olson White and Diane BurleyThank you, DeeDee D, Linda Teather, Kyla Bayang, Kathleen Jensen, Bill Moore Leslie Still, Ellen Gustafson, Kathy Stone, Dr. Koral LaVorgna, Jill Swenson, Christine, My Tuscany Roots , and many others for tuning into Jennifer Jones’ live program preview with Lori Olson White and Diane Burley! If you enjoyed this recording, you’d be doing us a favor to drop a little love 🫶 and add your thoughts in the comments below. If you think it’ll be valuable to others, share it individually or in group pages.Projectkin is free. We always welcome fellow travelers on the pa...
2025-10-0530 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Handling Damaged Photos » September 2025Thank you, Bill Moore , Linda Teather, Erin Hoover, Jennifer Jones, Anne Matuszak and so many more for joining us today. Today we enjoyed a lively conversation after Kathy’s presentation, including the contribution of two sample photos by Anne Matuszak, see below. As 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 from her decades of professional photo organizer experience. Explore our calendar for upcomi...
2025-09-261h 01
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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… The Mosley Family » September 2025Thank you Linda Teather, Marian Beaman and so many of you for joining us today during Emma Cox’s live presentation. Your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. As a bonus, it’s also great fun. Subscribe and get these recordings delivered straight to your inbox.👇 Learn more Projectkin.org/about.Today’s episode was a fun romp through one incredible family line. Emma’s thoughtful examination of roots and shoots of the line yield unexpected connections that take us from a dashing...
2025-09-1855 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: Emma Explores PreviewMany thanks to Rick Mutton, David Shaw, Moncina, JL Tooker, Una O’ Gara, MamaCarole and all our friends and members joining us today from around the globe. From my home in Berkeley, California, and Emma Cox’s, some 30 miles south of London, near the iconic Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, was a delight for us to welcome you to today’s special Friday Substack live program previewing next week’s Emma Explores program. Is Projectkin new to you? Welcome! Learn Projectkin.org/about, then join us. 👇!As Marian Beaman succinctly put it, today’s was a...
2025-09-1242 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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Terminology of Photo Organizing » August 2025Thank you Bill Moore, Linda Teather, Marci Keats Rudolph 🇨🇦, Erin Hoover and so many more for joining us today.As 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 post shared with you? Join us and get this and all of our progra...
2025-08-291h 05
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: The View from Kathy's CornerA special hat-tip of thanks to our friends and members joining from around the globe. From our homes in Calgary, Canada, and Berkeley, California, it was a delight seeing names popping up from as far away as Aberdeen, Scotland, to our East, and White Hills, Victoria, Australia, to our West! Thank you Bill Moore, Jennifer Jones, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Ann Larkham, Erin Hoover, Lisa Maguire, Bonnie Larson, Nancy G. Carver, Alan H Zeller, Kyla Bayang, MamaCarole, Diana’s Substack, and so many more!Is Projectkin new to you? Welcome! Learn Projectkin.org/about, then join us...
2025-08-2429 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
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Speakers’ Corner Premier PreviewMany thanks to Kathy Stone, MamaCarole, Diane Burley, Liz Gauffreau, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Kyla Bayang, Bill Moore, and so many more! 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 at Projectkin.org/about....
2025-08-1128 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
Specials at ProjectkinSpecial » The Scoop on Memories with Diane BurleyMany thanks to so many of you for joining the talk live today and actively engaging in the conversation. We hold various events for family historians, storytellers, and genealogists several times monthly. Thanks to the support of our patrons and speakers, these events are free, and everyone is welcome.Learn more at Projectkin.org/about and get these and all recordings sent directly to your inbox.Family historians and genealogists are familiar with navigating memory's unstable nature. In a lively conversation, Diane discussed the differences between episodic and semantic memory and how our...
2025-07-2958 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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… The Upcott Family in Devon, Piracy and the Trans-Atlantic Wool Trade » July 2025As with each of her Emma Explores programs, professional genealogist Emma Cox regaled us today with stories from her family tree. This time, she focused on the Upcott family and their involvement in the Wool industry in Devon. Is Projectkin new to you? Subscribe for free and get these posts directly in your inbox.As in each of these episodes, Emma - Journeys into Genealogy generously shares her slides, notes, and tips. In fact, among the resources she used to collect the material for today’s program was a book she picked up in...
2025-07-1754 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 ProjectkinLive Preview: Potlucks & Family Storytelling with Cynthia NimsI’m deeply grateful to the near twenty of you who were able to join me live during my live conversation with Cynthia Nims of Seafood Savvy and Long Live the Recipe Box. Without the means to grab your names as they floated by, I’m afraid I cannot thank you all directly. We both appreciated your participation, even as we struggled with the video hiccups. Thankfully, the good people at Substack were able to share the full live stream video with me this morning, and after a few edits, you’ll find it updated above and easier...
2025-07-0623 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinSneak Preview with Diane Burley, new memory event, July 29th!Thank you so much to the many friends, members, and followers who joined us for today’s surprise live program. Your names were flying by so quickly in the chat, I could only catch a few of you, Kathy Stone, Jill Swenson, Randy BergmannBecky Hetchler, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, Lawrence Siphiwe Masuku, Lori Olson White, Adrienne J, and gosh so many others! Thank you for joining on such short notice!Today’s fun program picks up on a theme for our special program scheduled for Tuesday, July 29th, at the Atlantic-friendly time of 10 am / 1 pm PT/ET or 6/7 pm B...
2025-07-0315 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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Copyright & Materials Acquired From Others » June 2025As Projectkin, we’re hooked on family history stories. So often, these stories start with the artifacts, documents, and photographs 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.If this was shared with you, why not join our free community? Learn more at Projectkin.org/about.Today, Kathy dove into some of the most basic challenges of our...
2025-06-271h 06
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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Rosalina and Gylby - Unusual Names and Naming patterns » June 2025We’re delighted to welcome Emma - Journeys into Genealogy back to Projectkin for this monthly series. You’ll know Emma for her two Substack publications, one, named My Family History where she shares stories from her tree, and the other is the acclaimed podcast:For Projectkin, Emma dove into two particular names in her family tree, Rosalinda and Gylby. They are both unusual names, yet they criss-cross her tree, revealing pedigree collapse and unexpected connections. I hope you enjoy her story. For our reference, Emma has kindly shared the slides from her talk:As...
2025-06-1951 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinSpecial » Ancestor Bios: The “ABC” Process with Randy SeaverOur special guest today, Randy Seaver was an early pioneer in online collaboration in genealogy since the days of online bulletin boards. He has been blogging about Genealogy since 2006 at Genea-Musings on Blogger, and celebrating his 19th blogiversary in April 2025. Recently, Randy’s brought his considerable talents to the growing genealogy community on Substack as the Randy Seaver (@geneaholic). This is the April 2025 post on Genea-Musings that started this discussion: Using Artificial Intelligence In the Ancestor Biography Creation (ABC). Projectkin takes full advantage of the Substack platform that is offered to us for free. That al...
2025-06-121h 05
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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Exploring Our Mystery Artifacts: Military » May 2025As Projectkin, we’re hooked on family history stories. So often, these stories start with the artifacts, documents, and photographs 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. If this was shared with you, why not join our free community? Learn more at Projectkin.org/aboutWe were thrilled by another richly informative hour with Kathy. Today’s focu...
2025-05-2355 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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… James Blatch Cox and his Cornish family and wider diaspora » May 2025What fun to welcome our special guest, Emma - Journeys into Genealogy , back to Projectkin’s Emma Explores series. In today’s program, the extended family of James Blatch Cox of Falmouth, England, provided a framework for storytelling about the home life, business enterprises, and historical context of 19th-century Britain, Canada, and the United States. We learned about James Blatch Cox’s varied career and how he and his wife, Harriet Newberry, went on to have nine children and a breathtaking 85 grandchildren! In the slides, you’ll see a number of references Emma shared as sources...
2025-05-1541 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Emma Explores PreviewThank you to everyone who tuned in to my live video! See the full post here 👇 Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe
2025-05-1222 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: This week, nurturing Genealogy on SubstackComing MissionGenealogy Events with Bill MooreI was thrilled to have Bill Moore of Family History with Bill Moore join me today. Until he mentioned it today, I’d not realized he’s only been on Substack for a few months and already he’s an active participant in both of my Substack publications, Projectkin Community Forum and Mission: Genealogy. While Projectkin is all about inspiring you to Family History storytelling projects, Mission: Genealogy is our shared space to collaborate as family historians and genealogists and connect as peers. More about the publication here:It h...
2025-05-0428 min
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with DearMYRTLEWelcome DearMYRTLE! It was a special treat today to welcome DearMYRTLE as my very special guest on our weekly Live update. She shared details about her next Mondays with Myrt episode coming tomorrow at 9 AM PT/noon ET/ 5 PM BST. This week, she has Michelle Tucker Chubenko joining as her guest to explore the map of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Though she usually follows the panelists of Mondays with Myrt with her bi-monthly book club, she’s skipping that this week in anticipation of a new publication to track. Hm… you know that if you...
2025-04-2731 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy’s Corner » Exploring Our Mystery Photos, Part 4: Timelines » April 2025As Projectkin, we’re hooked on family history stories. So often, these stories start with the artifacts, documents, and photographs left for us by our ancestors. In Kathy’s Corner, Kathy Stone, Projectkin member and long-time contributor, helps us sort through and make sense of these materials with insights learned in decades of experience as a professional photo organizer. Explore recordings of past episodes here, and our calendar for coming events here. Learn more at Projectkin.org/about, and join the conversation and inspiration — free!Our discussion today built on a challenge Kathy introd...
2025-04-2558 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
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinProjectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead with Guest, Robin StewartEach Sunday when I do these Substack live programs, I’m always astonished at how fun they are. I hope they’re as entertaining for those watching from home (live or as a recording). As Bill Moore put it, the simple idea is to start the week with a little shared perspective about the week ahead. Today, I was delighted to welcome my collaborator in Mission: Genealogy, Robin Stewart. Many of you will recognize Robin of course from her fabulous weekly newsletter for the genealogy community on Substack, “GenStack.” It’s released each Saturday with a compendium of interes...
2025-04-0632 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: Looking at the Week Ahead!What fun to welcome you all live in today’s program as Kathy Stone and I chat about the week ahead. Today, we focused on Kathy’s upcoming expansion on the Who-What-Where challenge and a few new features coming for Substack Live. Kathy’s Corner: Who-What-When & Where of your PhotosThis week, Thursday (or Friday for those of you in tomorrow-land across the date line), we’ll pick up where we left off in last month’s Kathy’s Corner discussion of the clues we can find in the photos left behind by our ancestors. In our...
2025-03-2328 min
Project Recipes at Projectkin“Riding a Cabinet Card into Indiana's Historic Past” » Prepared for NWIGSI don’t often get the chance to share our particular approach to family history storytelling. When I do, I always ask to share the recording with you here in the Projectkin Community. Valerie Schlink and the fine team at the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society were gracious enough to allow me to do that. I’d encourage you to look at their society and the incredible resources they develop and manage. It’s a compelling set of resources for families with Quaker ancestors.This project was a variation on my first Project Recipe, “Project Recipe: A Map, Timeline...
2025-03-2248 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 Kathy StoneIt's great to see so many of you making these live programs part of your weekly routine. I find them both fun and a good way to focus my thoughts on my special guests each week. Though these sessions are only available to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. You’re welcome to share them with friends or explore the full archive of these programs at Projectkin.org/live.Today, we welcomed my collaborator on the Projectkin Community Forum, Kathy Stone. Kathy brings her decades of experience as a pr...
2025-02-2425 min
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Andrew Handyside – Engineer, Bridge Builder and Manufacturer » February 2025As Emma - Journeys into Genealogy shares in her presentation, her third great-grandfather, Andrew Handyside, 1805-1887, was born in Scotland. He benefited from learning his trade by working for his uncle’s engineering works in St. Petersburg, Russia, before coming to Derby, England. In Derby, he first acquired an interest in an iron foundry before turning it into Andrew Handyside & Company, Limited, and growing it internationally.Today, installations include massive architectural iron construction like St. Pancras Station in London to collectible cast iron fountains, urns, and postal boxes. As Emma asks, have you found any artifacts built by...
2025-02-2042 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
Weekly LIVE Updates at ProjectkinA Brief Chat in the Livestream with Lori Olson White @HometownwriterThank you Lori Olson White, Lynda Heines, Shell Norman, Tyler Loiselle, and so many others for tuning into my live video with Lori Olson White! Join me for my next live video in the app — OR now in your web browser. 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 ot...
2025-02-1026 min
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
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
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… The Markham family and their clergy, army, navy and aristocratic connections » December 2024In today’s episode, Emma Cox dove into her family legacy to explore stories woven through our shared Anglophone history. Stories associated with The Most Reverand William Markham, archbishop of York, took us from Westminster Abbey plaques to tombs without bones. As with these programs, Emma’s insights help us all learn how to separate fact from fiction and use her stories to help us in our research. Emma’s graciously shared her slides as PDF files. Note the many underlined text references on each slide. These are active links to external resources such as the Ch...
2024-12-1950 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinCloth Stories » Transforming Your Research into Fabric Art with Lynda HeinesStories have been told in fabric since the first quilts, tartans, and weavings left from their creator’s hands. Lynda Heines, one of our long-time Projectkin members and publisher of Heines Sight, shares her fabric-based storytelling approach in today's program. For years, Lynda shared family stories in scrapbooks, but she was hooked once she found her way into fabric. On her site, LyndaHeines.com, you can see the breadth of her work, including dying techniques and various project types. Lynda weaves her directions into today’s video presentation as a project recipe. You’ll find her slides here...
2024-12-1257 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » End of Year Wrap-up and Preview for 2025 » Dec. 2024As a professional archivist and photo organizer, Kathy Stone always brings a unique perspective to family history storytelling. She came to Projectkin as a committed scrapbooker with a visual eye for storytelling — an essential skill when uncovering the narratives hidden within photos. As you can see in the transcript, we started by discussing the photo as an artifact in its many potential formats, from celluloid negative or slide to print on paper, glass, or metal. When making digital copies, you respect the original artifacts while creating new forms that might capture stories or provide context to others' st...
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Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Ancestors in the Theatre, Films and Television » November 2024This month, Emma kicked off the program with her discoveries at the West Surrey Family History Society Fair. There, she spoke with several of the specialists in their “help desk” stalls, including Graham Bandy, who helped her identify a long-cherished photo. You can read more about that in her recent post for Emma’s Substack “A Genealogy Fair and a Mystery Solved.” What a terrific reminder of the extraordinary resources available to you among local historical societies, antiquarians, and collectors. Today’s episode focused on a theme Emma has wanted to explore to discover the actors and o...
2024-11-2158 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
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
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Handling Those Photos: Halloween Edition » October 2024Grab a cup of tea (or perhaps a witch’s brew) and enjoy the cauldron fun times in today’s Kathy’s Corner event. Participants joined from Scotland, Canada, and the United States, and we indulged in stories of our childhood and children’s Halloween adventures in days gone by. Along the way, we compared notes on the historical roots of the holiday and traditions: * So-called Pendle Witches and the 1612 witch trials the area surrounding Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England* Witches in both Connecticut and Salem in the United States, and the current effort to g...
2024-11-0158 min
Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Writers and Journalists in the Fonblanque Family Tree » October 2024One of the wonders our “Emma Explores” programs is how Emma’s articulation of her research journeys can be so inspiring to our own. In today’s program, Emma described the writers, journalists, and a diplomat in her family and how she could explore her ancestors’ lives through their work as accessible from the modern web. Here are the slides she sharedThe fabulous tips Emma suggested in her presentation quickly fueled the discussion at the end. Among them were:* Carefully explore the objects, trunks, and other physical materials you’ve inherited to identify rel...
2024-10-171h 04
Specials at ProjectkinThe Curious Call of Ancestral PlacesToday’s program was shivers-down-the-spine inspiring. Rhonda started with stories of unexplained coincidences and then journeyed into old stone buildings and archives. We were riveted by stories of photographs in hidden caches and trauma felt across generations. In preparation for today’s talk, Rhonda shared several fabulous resources: A Case Study: Building History of the Ephraim Relief Society Granary* Inspired by a project she worked on in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street project. How can YOU tell the story of an ancestral home or place?If you...
2024-10-1150 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » A “Private Podcast” as outreach for your Family ArchivePrivacy for StorytellingFrom our start in 2023, the Projectkin Community has been incredibly generous with their ideas and projects to share. I’ve only rarely had the chance to share a project recipe. I started on this idea soon after joining Substack. The more I worked on it, the more I appreciated its potential. This could be important for you, too. Let me explain. As consumers, we’re often lured into platforms whose business models require us to compromise our privacy. Advertising models famously have this as the core exchange. For my family archive, I deci...
2024-09-121h 00
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Handling and Preserving the Physical “Stuff” » August 2024As many of us did during the pandemic, Kathy Stone joined a book club. Digging into What We Keep by Bill Shapiro with Naomi Wax led to not only insights about the “stuff” in her personal collection but also a long-term friendship with Martie McNabb of Show & Tales and Things That Matter videos.Today’s talk was a conversation with Martie and built on a detailed post that Kathy shared with specific tips for handling artifacts in your collection, including memorabilia, keepsakes, ephemera, and trinkets. You’ll want to take special note of the lists of resou...
2024-08-231h 03
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe: Memory Books for Memory Loss with Jude RhodesConversations with loved ones suffering from cognitive impairment or dementia can be frustrating or even isolating. Professional genealogist and registered nurse Jude Rhodes of Stories of our Generations takes us through an approach she’s used successfully to trigger meaningful conversations. The core of her approach starts with the medical conditions impairing memory formation. For many kinds of dementia, short-term memory or recollections of recent events can be difficult or even impossible. Memories of childhood can remain quite familiar. Jude’s approach focuses on the remaining long-term memories, using the tools of a genealogist to find...
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Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Caroline Rumpf an Ongoing Mystery and a Brick Wall » July 2024As a professional genealogist, Emma explores archives, churchyards, and online to compile histories, charts, tours, and books for clients. When collecting material for clients or engaging experts in discussions on her podcast, Journeys into Genealogy, and substack of the same name.As we explore family history, we generally expect to research our ancestors based on their names and what we’ve learned about the dates and locations of important moments in their lives. Sometimes, however, it’s not so straightforward.An Ongoing Mystery and a Brick WallAs Emma describes in this episode, one...
2024-07-181h 03
Specials at ProjectkinInaugural Project Festival » July 2, 2024 | Three speakers, three projectsToday’s event was extraordinary because it premiered a new event form for us here at Projectkin: the “Project Festival.” The simple idea is to share the process of turning stories into projects to inspire and encourage each other. Unlike Members’ Corner stories, these aren’t the stories but about the projects that will lead to the stories. As family historians and genealogists, we continuously collect facts, artifacts, and recollections about our ancestors' experiences and lives. Putting these materials into structured archives allows us—and our descendants—to explore and retrieve the stories. Today, our three speakers...
2024-07-021h 03
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 ...
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Emma Explores at ProjectkinEmma Explores… Fame, Gateway Ancestors and links to Royalty » June 2024As a professional genealogist, Emma explores archives, churchyards, and online to compile histories, charts, tours, and books for clients. When collecting material for clients or engaging experts in discussions on her podcast, Journeys into Genealogy, and substack of the same name. In this wonderful series, Emma takes us behind the scenes as she shares the joy of discoveries and in her family history from her home in Kent, England. Today’s episode focused on “gateway” ancestors Emma discovered in her own line and how they opened up connections to royal ancestors. The lessons and tools she’s...
2024-06-2056 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Members Ask: “I digitized my photos, now what?” » May 2024Despite Kathy Stone’s careful preparation and focus, we were a rowdy bunch today. Perhaps a consequence of too much birthday partying. 😉 Today’s session focused on answers to questions submitted to Kathy’s prompt earlier in the week. We started with two key topics: How to clean photos and slides:* Dust Removal* Microfibre cloth* Air Blower* Antistatic Brush* Electric Duster* Glue, Sticky Substances* UnDu* Pec Pads* Pec Solution* Rubber Cement EraserThis second question led to a little fun debat...
2024-05-241h 22
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe: Encouraging the Reluctant Storyteller » Bridget Badoe McQuickMy introduction to Bridget Badoe McQuick came through professional genealogist, Emma Cox whom you might know for her Journeys into Genealogy podcast or here on Substack, Emma - Journeys into Genealogy. I found Bridget’s podcast episode with Emma inspiring so I was eager to meet her.Bridget, who also goes by Lady Esi (Bridget) in her performances, shared several resources with us during today’s program, including:* Windrush Day, each 22 June in the UK honors the contributions of migrants to the post-war economy* Bruce Castle, the inspiration for the storytelling chair...
2024-05-161h 01
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Conquering that Photo Mess One Step at a Time » March 2024Member’s often tell us that their interest in family history storytelling started when handling the photos, documents, and artifacts handed down by parents, grandparents, and ancestors. Here at the Projectkin Community Forum, we have access to remarkable resources among our members including our “Cornerstone” Kathy Stone. Kathy distinguished herself as a Ponga member with her generous support of other members based on her experience as a professional photo organizer. She soon became an avid advocate and dear friend. Today, Kathy’s turned her keen eye for photos and talents for organization to her own collecti...
2024-03-2959 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinA word from Kathy Stone at “Kathy’s Corner”At Kathy's Corner, I want to help you get your photos, memorabilia and ephemera (aka stuff) organized, preserved and shareable so you can enjoy your stories. In 2023, I presented structured lessons on the 8 Steps to take you from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore:This year, I want to help you work on your organizing journey as I work on mine. To help me do this, let me know * what your challenges are, * what questions you have, * what tips you would like to share, and
2024-03-2305 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe: Weaving a Grandmother's Letters into a Story » Kathryn GravenKathryn Graven, author of “Memoirs of a Mask Maker” did not disappoint with her talk today. She deftly combined the heart of her grandmother Helen’s story with the professional craft of storytelling. Tap the “Transcript” button to read along or even search the transcript of the recording to pick up on details you might have missed during the live program. Kathryn was kind enough to share the structure of her talk ahead of time in a form that elegantly fell into a letter to all of us as a community. You won’t want to miss this...
2024-03-2153 min
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 ProjectkinRootsTech Wash Up PartyI had the pleasure of meeting Hilary Blanford through an introduction from UK-based genealogist, Emma Cox of theJourneys into Genealogypodcast. I was absolutely delighted and thrilled that she accepted my invitation to join us for this series. I can think of no one better to help us boil down the soup of RootsTech than Hilary. She helped us explore why it matters, why we're here and help us make a party of it.Favorite discoveries from the show included: * FamilySearch.org’s introduction of FamilySearch Labs * MyHeritage’s AI BiographyThat quic...
2024-03-0231 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
Specials at ProjectkinLatest in writing tools for family historiansIn this evening’s installment, the fourth in a total of six programs, Denys Allen of PAancestors.org joined us to share what she’d seen and learned from the show floor.With the aplomb of a sportscaster, Denyse Allencalled up video to pick up the action on the show floor adding this clip, you can see more from her YouTube channel.Companies mentioned in her video included: * LORE — * Storian.co — help you turn your real life stories into a book (a ghostwriting company, where the writing is done with AI)* S...
2024-03-0230 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Conquering that Photo Mess One Step at a Time » Feb 2024This series, featuring Kathy Stone of Calgary Photo Solutions, builds on the 8-part series of programs Projectkin members can explore here and posts you’ll find here on Projectkin, “8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore.” We’re currently sorting through a Substack issue affecting the searchable transcript of this recording ☝️ above. This issue is affecting some but not all recording transcripts and has been reported. You’ll find transcripts for the 2023 recordings accompanying this article. Thanks for your patience. During today’s session, Kathy started out with a useful tip to consider...
2024-02-231h 01
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe: A Family Cookbook Spanning Five GenerationsAs we celebrate just five months of these Project Recipe Events, Kerri Kearney stepped up today to show us how she’s been inspired to create a family cookbook spanning five generations as an heirloom gift for her daughter. This incredible project resulted in a beautiful full-color, hardcover book of over 175 pages. As a Projectkin project it was not only inspiring, but also instructive as to process. You’ll learn in the recording about how successful this project was in… * Inspiring extended family members to participate and contribute their own stories to the book.* Tu...
2024-02-151h 00
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Conquering that Photo Mess One Step at a Time » Jan 2024Today’s program restarted this treasured series featuring Kathy Stone of Calgary Photo Solutions. It builds on the 8-part series of programs Projectkin members can explore here and the blog post she shared with Ponga, an “ancestor” of our Projectkin community.Since the eight steps from gathering materials to scanning and archiving originals is covered in that series and the blog post, we’re using these sessions to drill in, ask questions, and share our work. During today’s session, Kathy shared an enhanced version of the Google Sheet she’d shared during earlier sessions. You’ll find...
2024-01-2659 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » Genealogy Activity Books for KidsEarlier this evening I had the pleasure of hosting Sindi Broussard Terrien of My Many Mothers and Finding a Publisher to talk about how to create a kids’ Activity Book from your own family history materials. Whatever the passion or mystery that fueled you in your pursuit of family stories and records, it’s a fair bet that one of your goals is to share your stories and records with future generations. Sindi’s work is focused on just that challenge. The secret, as she shares in this recording, is to know your audience and make Genealogy fun fo...
2024-01-1948 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 » Playing for AncestorsWe were thrilled to host Simon Davies, founder of the family archive platform WeAre.xyz, in a project recipe event. The secret to this project is the combination of ordinary playing cards with an online archive to host his stories and of course, Simon's ready with his WeAre.xyz archive. QR codes connect each card to archive profiles for each ancestor. The archive provides a private and safe place to view the stories themselves. In this example, he's made the profiles public but in a feature of his software, access is constrained to profiles of...
2023-11-3057 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 7 & 8: “Tell the stories with the wisdom of crowds”In this final Kathy Stone program of the year building on her blog 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore, she combined steps 7 “Tell the Stories” with 8 “Add the Wisdom of Crowds,” in a program she called “The Good Part.”As she wrote in her blog post, telling the stories makes a lot more sense when the context of a photo is clear:Now as you open each photo, faces are named, and the context is clear, let the stories bubble out.The wisdom of crowds is less obvious from...
2023-11-1629 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinFamily History Projects & a Project Recipe for Holiday Gift GivingLast night I had the very special honor of presenting a talk at the Oakland FamilyHistory Center here in the Bay Area. Though we had a short time window to schedule it, Denise Plaskett, Rudy Wolf, and the FamilySearch Center team and volunteers made it a success. I'm so grateful. Rudy was also gracious enough to share this recording with all of you here in our Projectkin community.In this event, I introduced the community and our approach and shared several examples you have presented or scheduled. To make it specific, I also included a Project Recipe...
2023-11-011h 03
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 6: “Organize your digital files”With the sixth session in Kathy Stone’s 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore blog post, we turn to organizing your digital files.Once you have digital files, software intelligence can vastly simplify your workload. The AI-driven intelligence of software can sort your photos for you by the people in each photo. In selecting an application for facial organization, you want to be sure that the faces in your photos were not used for growing facial recognition databases.The discussion of archiving quickly led to archival materials and you’ll f...
2023-10-2656 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » The Princess & the Code: A child’s teaching ebook (Trees & Burls)“At age two, my daughter [through adoption] became captivated by fairies and fairy families, so I used the facts of her origin story to create a book about a fairy that I called Little Faerie Princess . . . “ — from Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories, a collection of essays edited by Professor Kerri Kearney at Oklahoma State University, our speaker for this Project Recipe. For more background, see also Another Voice from Inside the Adoption Triangle. Slides used in the presentationProject Recipe with detailed instructions (PDF)Publishing ResourcesKerri included a few...
2023-10-0557 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 5: “Archive both the digitized and the originals”This fifth session in Kathy Stone’s series focuses on the Digitizing step of her 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore blog post. In this step, you carefully review the files that were scanned and make sure that your originals are properly archived. Many scanning pros include archival treatment of originals after scanning as part of their workflow. This is a great option and offers the least risk to your irreplaceable originals.The discussion of archiving quickly led to archival materials and you’ll find many references in the linked PDF of t...
2023-09-2158 min
Project Recipes at ProjectkinProject Recipe » A Map, Timeline, & Story: Two WaysI’ve had the good fortune to inherit an extraordinary recitation of our family history from my grandmother who passed away in the 1960s — I never had a chance to get to know her. Her legacy included a limited-edition, self-published book of family history. The book formed a fascinating trail of clues for her heirs to follow in our family history research.This particular project came about on the occasion of my first visit to see my brother and his family at his vacation home in North Carolina’s Outer Banks in the summer of 2023.On a h...
2023-09-1456 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Open Mic: Where are you in the process?Before we focus on the Archiving step, Kathy Stone paused her progression through 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore to consider where we were. It’s a fun and relaxed session that answers questions and reminds us how important this work is.Given the casual nature of the gathering, there were all sorts of conversations started in the chat. This transcript includes the referenced links.Kathy also referenced a webinar in which she was a co-presenter prepared for B&H Photo on August 29, 2023, titled “Protecting Your Photos Before an Extr...
2023-08-2458 min
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 4: “Step into Digital Magic”This fourth session in the series focuses on the Digitizing step of her 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore blog post. A special thanks to Kathy Stone for taking the time to put together slides that walk through the range of options from "Okay" through good, better, and "Best." You'll see our wonderful community chimed in with tips and resources during the program now captured in chat as a Gdoc.Where appropriate, we include the chat archive from events. This one included several useful suggestions from members. You’ll find it at...
2023-07-201h 03
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 3: “Sort the photos at hand”This third session in the series focuses on the Sorting step of her 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore blog post. This important episode steps through this critical step that can save you both time and money later.As Kathy points out in the blog,The key here is to sort what you have into chunks that make sense to you so that you can capture the relevant information as you move them to digital form in the next step. As you bundle photos into folders and envelopes make...
2023-06-151h 01
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 2: “Plan the scope of your work”This second session in the series focuses on the Gathering step of her 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore blog post. She walked through the crazy array of places where some of the best family pictures might be hiding (behind other photos in frames, for example, or under magnets on the refrigerator door!)After the first session, Kathy shared a nifty template she uses to track her scanning projects, the Workflow Checklist. To ensure everyone can access it, she's converted it into a Google Sheet you can view, or if you...
2023-05-181h 03
Kathy's Corner at ProjectkinKathy's Corner » Digitize that Collection | Step 1: “Gather your photos”As we wound down the Ponga digital storytelling platform, long-time member and photo manager, Kathy Stone, immediately agreed to become a founding member of the community that would become Projectkin.org. In this first recorded program of her 8-part series, Kathy lays out the overall concept of her workflow for digitizing and managing a family history image collection.The program is like a coaching or mastermind-style session as Kathy covers a topic each month following the flow of her 8 Steps to Take You from Tubs of Photos to Tales of Yore member post for Ponga....
2023-04-131h 00