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These are special events that cover topics of interest to family historians hooked on stories. We discuss the challenges faced by families trying to explore, capture, and preserve their stories. We share platform-independent solutions that are creative and inspiring. projectkin.substack.com

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Special » Lori Olson White » Tips from Annie Deihm...

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2026/04/16

Many thanks to Kathy Stone, Ann Rockley, Linda Teather, and all of you who have taken the time to read and engage with this special story and idea. We’re supporting and inspiring each other to take these next steps into history. Our community is made up of subscribers just like you. All programs are free, supported by our Projectkin Patrons. More at Projectkin.org/about.If you enjoy pieces like these, dropping a ❤️ below 👇 is another way to say thank you. It introduces this post to new viewers,

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64:26

Special » Rhonda Lauritzen » Handling the Hard Stuff:...

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2026/02/24

Let me begin with deep thanks for this wonderful, generous group attending today. Rhonda Lauritzen became an important part of my previous startup and has been incredibly generous as I began this journey into Projectkin. I’m also especially touched to see so many active Projectkin members, including Kathy Stone, producer behind the Kathy’s Corner series, Linda Teather, Kyla Bayang, Bill Moore, Marci KR, Gwynn Socolich, Diane Burley, Bill Butcher, Ann Rockley, and so many more. I’m truly grateful

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63:13

Genealogy Storytelling and Junk Journals with Taneya...

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2026/02/06

What an incredible treat today. My deepest thanks to our very special guest, Taneya Koonce and all of you attending live today from across the US, Canada, and Australia. Your active participation live transformed a formal presentation into a joyful celebration of personal moments in time as captured by the ephemera of our daily life. These are special ways for a community to come together to inspire, encourage, and support one another. Feel free to drop your questions in the comments below and share

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57:59

Special: Storytelling, County GIS Maps & Land Patents...

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2025/10/30

Let me start by saying thank you to Jennifer Jones, Bill Moore, Bill Butcher, Cathy Horvath, Paul Zuros, director of the museum at Historic Fort Steuben, and so many more of you who attended today’s program. This was a very special program made possible by a suggestion from one community member and introductions from another. It’s precisely the kind of thing that, as family historians, we’re always looking for. Support from our Projectkin.org/patrons allows us to keep all of these programs free

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56:42

Special » Family History Asks Large Questions in...

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2025/08/08

Many thanks to Lisa Maguire for her fascinating program today and for all of you in attendance, including Ann G. Forcier, Anne Young, Daniel Nilan, Diane the FH Bowerbird, Jane Chapman, Jill Swenson, Linda Teather, Mark Hochstetler, Wendi Funchess, Lisa E Oakley, Lori Olson White, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, and so many in our community for joining the talk live today. Have you just discovered Projectkin? Learn more at Projectkin.org/about, then join us 👇 Today’s very special event came together

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58:31

Special » The Scoop on Memories with Diane Burley

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2025/07/29

Many 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

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64:15

Special » War Stories and Healing Paths with Jennifer...

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2025/06/05

Many thanks to Linda Teather, Kathy Stone, Marci Keats Rudolph 🇨🇦, Bill Moore, Jennifer Jones and so many of you for joining us today. It’s always good to see you, and I especially appreciated your comments and questions as carried the discussion across national borders. As family storytellers, we are often tempted to focus on celebratory or heroic narratives while overlooking the difficult and painful episodes. These harrowing experiences can be the most important ones to remember and share. Our

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61:17

One-Place Studies Workshop » Part 2: Taking it...

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2025/04/03

Today’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

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66:51

One-Place Studies Workshop » Part 1: Getting Up &...

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2025/02/06

In 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

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61:03

Push & Pull of Platforms: Storytelling in blogs,...

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2025/01/10

Today’s program was new for us with a conversational format and topic focused on platforms. Conversation Among Members Today, we’re including two Projectkin members talking about their experiences using multiple platforms to share their stories:* Jennifer Jones of Victoria, Australia. Jennifer moved her long-time blog, Tracking Down the Family from WordPress to Substack and is now considering bringing her One Place Study to the WeAre.xyz One-Place Study (OPS) platform and combining it with

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58:11

Story Magic: Reframing family history storytelling in...

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2024/11/14

With 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

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50:50

The Curious Call of Ancestral Places

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2024/10/11

Today’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

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63:05

Inaugural Project Festival » July 2, 2024 | Three...

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2024/07/02

Today’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

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55:51

“Beginning, Middle & End” with Jane Hutcheon » Family...

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2024/05/10

Today’s program was a “taster” for her upcoming series of three workshops. Learn more about the series. Register here.“Picnic basket” of ResourcesAt the beginning of the program, you’ll note that Jane references her “Yogi Bear School of Family Storytelling.” She’s followed that up with a little picnic basket of goodies just for you, starting with these two downloadable bits of fun:And to be sure you could follow up with her many references, here are links to many of the programs, books, and

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61:07

How to Actually Get Your Book Published »...

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2024/05/02

For part 2 of this series, Karen Ray of Rememberingthetime.net partners with Sindi Terrien author of funwithgenealogy.com and the Acadian genealogist behind MyManyMothers.com. Karen and Sindi are both professionals with books and client work as background leading into this talk. Each has also contributed projects and programs to our Projectkin community. Part 1 of this series was held last week and featured Karen in conversation with Projectkin member, Kerri Kearney:During RootsTech 2024, both Karen

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62:54

Why a Book & What Kind of Book? » Self-Publishing +...

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2024/04/24

Our long-time Projectkin Karen Ray of Rememberingthetime.net and Kerri Kearney, a scholar at Oklahoma State University combined forces to create an inspiring program about publishing that family history project. Karen and Kerri shared their insights on planning a family history book project so that the effort results in a book you can complete — and be proud of. As they share, understanding your “why” for the project is key. Karen shared several examples based on her own work with clients. Among

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40:08

Getting Your Family Into Your Projects

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2024/03/02

Victoria 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

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31:06

My journey to capture my family legacy

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2024/03/02

I 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

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29:29

Asking your loved ones for the stories

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2024/03/02

Our 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

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31:08

RootsTech Wash Up Party

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2024/03/02

I 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

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