Barbara Tien

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Cat and chicken herder, granola-makin' Berkeley mom, and ringleader at ProjectKin. We're a community of family historians hooked on stories. Photos turn out to be a great way to reconnect and share old stories. I was also a co-founder at the now-offline Ponga.com.

You'll find me #familyhistory, #storytelling, #genealogy, #oldphotos, and welcoming newbies from the #twittermigration.

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Ponga!https://projectkin.org

On Nov. 30—just in time for the holidays—we have a special #FamilyHistory Project Recipe Event featuring https://weare.xyz/'s Simon Davies. In "Playing for the Ancestors" Simon will share a project he created as a gift this holiday. It's a full #52Ancestors deck of playing cards, each featuring photos of ancestors and QR codes that take players to the profiles of each family member.

🎟️ Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 30! More tix added at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-recipe-playing-for-ancestors-tickets-749512711697?aff=oddtdtcreator

We Are a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

WeAre.xyz: a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on [email protected].

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript

Question. For people who use #Substack — can you make a private podcast?

So twitter decided to send a threatening letter to an organisation who were researching hate speech on twitter.

They fired back with a beautiful letter on their own.

I'm sure twitter isn't going through with their threat, but I kinda hope they will. The discovery will be gorgeous. https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-to-A.-Spiro-from-R.-Kaplan-re-CCDH.pdf

To keep your #Genealogy & #FamilyHistory data safe, back up regularly and share what you know with family (and beyond if you wish). Remember: LOCKSS (lots of copies keep stuff safe). https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2023/08/backup-day-lockss-and-paperless.html
Backup Day: LOCKSS and Paperless Genealogy

Genealogy research and commentary by Marian Burk Wood, speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past," available from Amazon.com.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the places where your ancestors lived, join us & The Society of Genealogists for the free 10-day challenge event starting on 22 September #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday Sign up for more details here 👉🏻 https://subscribepage.com/speakers
All About That Place Sign Up

Keep in touch and get all the latest news about the All About That Place event.

Isaac Asimov on How Libraries Can Radically Change Your Life (1971)

Back in 1971, Isaac Asimov sent a letter to celebrate the opening of a new library in Troy, Michigan. Thoughtful as always, his letter addressed the children of the Troy community as follows: 'Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library.

Open Culture

Hello there, TootTown đź‘‹ A dear friend of mine and journalist Kathryn Graven, is anticipating the publication of her new book "Memoirs of a Mask Maker" early next year by a small independent publisher in London.

Can anyone tip me off to book clubs, or better yet, networks of book clubs focused on history stories like this.

More at http://kathryngraven.com/about-the-book/

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Memoir

About the Book | Kathryn Graven

Kathryn Graven |
As @brewsterkahle explains in a new #OpEd for TIME, “the instability occasioned by Twitter’s change in ownership has revealed an underlying instability in our digital information ecosystem.” https://time.com/6240415/twitter-digital-history-at-risk/
Amid Musk's Chaotic Reign at Twitter, Our Digital History Is at Risk

'Free societies need access to history, unaltered by changing corporate or political interests,' writes Brewster Kahle.

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I just learned that the Genealogy subreddit has a weekly #transcription Tuesday post, in which members comment with links to images they can't transcribe (or translate) and others help them out. It's really charming, and a neat sample of real-world problems researchers face.

Here's last week's #TranscriptionTuesday post, featuring 19th-century Latin, German and English as well as 20th-century Hungarian: https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/z7qvak/transcription_request_tuesdays_november_29_2022/

Transcription Request Tuesdays (November 29, 2022)

It's Tuesday, so it's a new week for transcription requests. (Translation requests are also welcome in this thread.) **How to Make a...

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