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We had another of our fun weekly Substack Live updates today! Joining me today was Jennifer Jones of https://trackingdownthefamily.substack.com talking about her #AtoZchallenge , her #OnePlaceStudy #Genealogy and more!

We referenced a lot of other projects across the planet, catch the recording at: https://projectkin.substack.com/p/projectkin-live-looking-at-the-week-2a3
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Tracking Down The Family | Jennifer Jones | Substack

Sharing my family stories after many years of research. My family mostly came to Australia from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Click to read Tracking Down The Family, by Jennifer Jones, a Substack publication.

Who Might Have Met the Marquis de Lafayette? A Project Recipe for Building Community

Join me on April 17 to learn how you can use an interactive timeline to share STORIES as a community and WHY it can connect people with their common experiences.

More in a post due 29 Mar: Projectkin.org/forum

A clip (forgive the hiccups in the recording) from a recent talk I gave for the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society (NWIGS).

#FamilyHistory and #Genealogy have always been a use case for new technologies! How we use these tools matters.

See the post: https://open.substack.com/pub/projectkin/p/nwigs-cabinet-card

“Riding a Cabinet Card into Indiana's Historic Past” » Prepared for NWIGS

“How to Add Magic Pixie Dust to Your Family Story, Too!” A recording of a presentation delivered to the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society (NWIGS) on Feb 15, 2025

Projectkin Community Forum

As the sun recedes on #OnePlaceWednesday, I thought I'd drop one more reminder for Thursday's Emma Explores #Genealogy and #FamilyHistory program, featuring Emma Cox, who will explore the Engineers and Manufacturers in her family tree. (FREE)

Fountains in your place? How about Bridges?

Learn more and join us online: https://tockify.com/eventscalendar/detail/66/1740074400000

Emma Explores
Stories, Mysteries and Fame

Thu 20 Feb, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM [PST]: Join us as Emma Cox, genealogist, author and podcaster at Journeys into Genealogy shares the challenges of discovering and sharing her own family stories. To register, visit the program Zoom Registrat

A quick reminder for our #OnePlaceWednesday friends (and most importantly the “One-Place Curious”):

Tomorrow, Projectkin is hosting Janet Barrie, chair of the Society for One-Place Studies @SocOnePlaceStudies in a free talk about how to get going with a One-Place Study!

Register to get the Zoom link, and join us. https://tockify.com/eventscalendar/detail/53/1738864800000

One-Place Studies: Part 1 of 2 | Getting Up and Running

Thu 6 Feb, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM [PST]: Join us for a special two-part series with Janet Barrie, the current chair of the Society for One-Place Studies. Please register to join the live program on Zoom. Part two of this series will be offer

Now that the REST of us are learning about the subtle art of One-Place Studies, it's time for a tutorial! So, Janet Barrie of @SocOnePlaceStudies + @Springhill_OPS has a series!

PLUS, she's on Projectkin LIVE this weekend! https://Projectkin.org/chat-time

#OnePlaceWednesday

World Clock & Time Converter

Effortless time conversion and world time. Schedule conference calls, webinars & online meetings, plan travel and track flight arrival time across time zones.

Worldtime Buddy

In case ya missed it, over in Kathy's Corner yesterday, Kathy Stone talked through some very useful strategies for solving mysteries in old family photos:

The full recording is at https://Projectkin.org/kathys-corner.

Yep, it's free

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Storytelling

Kathy's Corner | Projectkin Community Forum | Barbara at Projectkin | Substack

Archives of our Kathy's Corner events. These remarkable events bring you the expert advice of a professional archivist and photo manager as she tackles her own collection. To learn more about the next Project Recipes scheduled, see Projectkin.org/events. Click to read Projectkin Community Forum, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Though I know that many of my posts have shamelessly referenced my commitment to Substack, you may not know that my commitment to platform independence is stronger.
(Honestly, I'm just cheap. Substack you lot of features for free that I was otherwise paying for. 😉)
Since they recently added YouTube uploads with each video, I'm now populating my channel with our event recordings.
Check it out at https://Youtube.com/@projectkin
Before you continue to YouTube

How good an ancestor you're being to your future descendants? In the wake of these fires is a good time to think about how you've protected your #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy.

Join Kathy Stone and me Thursday/Friday for "Kathy's Corner" at Projectkin. Register at Projectkin.org/events. It's free!

If you haven’t yet had a chance to watch yesterday’s “Forget-Me-Not” Episode with Rhonda Lauritzen in conversation with @janehutcheon.bsky.social, you’re missing out on some incredible moments of inspiration.

Go ahead, queue it up, then feel free to share.

https://open.substack.com/pub/projectkin/p/forget-me-not-rhonda-jan-2025?r=2tc6pc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Forget-me-not » Rhonda Lauritzen in conversation with Jane Hutcheon

Watch now (57 mins) | In an extraordinary discussion about the stories told at memorials and in biographies, Jane and Rhonda treated us to a larger exploration of why we tell these stories and how to do it well.