Barbara at Projectkin

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Ringleader at Projectkin.org, a community of family historians hooked on stories. Mingling as a free community, we explore family history stories in a modern digital world. Join us? ⮕ Projectkin.org #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

This month, at Kathy's Corner, we're changing it up a bit. Instead of a presentation, Kathy Stone will be joined by a Special Panel on Privacy Practices in Family History, including Linda Stufflebean, Annette Gendler, and Barbara Tien. ⮕ To register, visit the program Zoom Registration Page. Our show-runner for this series, Projectkin member Kathy Stone, has decades of experience as a professional photo organizer and is now working on her family history projects. In this special episode, she's brought in experts in different aspects of family history, including genealogy, biography writing, collection management, and technologies for what promises to be a lively discussion about privacy. Kathy Stone brings her own experience with privacy as a professional photo manager, caring for her clients' collections through complex periods of technological change. In addition to her work at Kathy's Corner, you'll find more of her posts at KathysCoaching.Substack.com. Joining her on this panel will be: Linda Stufflebean describes herself as an obsessed genealogical researcher who has been exploring her family tree since 1979. She may be best known among genealogists for her daily posts of tips and insights at emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com. Annette Gendler is a memoirist, family historian, and writing instructor. She's the author of three books: How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History, the memoir Jumping Over Shadows, and a children’s book, Natalie and the Nazi Soldiers. She writes on Substack at The Past and The Present. Barbara Tien is the ringleader at Projectkin. After a career in technology startups, she's pivoted to focus her energy on encouraging more people to tell their stories by tapping into family historians’ unique gifts for connection and narrative. These programs are all free, made possible by the generosity of our Projectkin Patrons. Learn more at Projectkin.org/patrons.
Graphic image, as Dai Davies of @genealcymru.bsky.social joins Barbara at Projectkin as a special Livestream guest on Sunday, August 16, to talk about "Capturing the Lives of the Stigmatized & Marginalized."They talked about it in their latest post.
Oh, hello! It’s that time again… within the reach of my words, tomorrow is time for our fun little preview of Kathy’s Corner! I hope you’ll join us! open.substack.com/live-stream/285531
Two event tiles sharing upcoming events. One describes a livestream on June 12 the other a Zoom event on June 18. Both feature the influential women in Emma Cox family tree.
Black cat waits at the desk for tomorrow's Livestream, her siamese sister observes from the background. Join us, won't you?http://open.substack.com/live-stream/229585
Paul Chiddicks is joining us to share the backstory to a remarkable photograph that has become an iconic symbol of poverty in Victorian England: The story of young Adelaide Springett. As Paul says, “Sometimes the story finds you.”
Graphic image highlighting Projectkin Livesteam featuring Emma Cox for our monthly Emma Explores program. This month featuring the theme "Twos." Barbara at projectkin will be joined by Emma from Journeys into Genealogy. Join us, won't you.
One of Projectkin's most popular recordings has been a Special program I did with Lisa Maguire of Ancestory. The post was on Micro History, “Family History Asks Large Questions in Small Places,” from August 2025. It dawned on me that she would be the perfect person to bring into the ongoing conversation I'd started a few weeks ago with Jennifer Jones about Migration Stories. So, I've invited Lisa to join me for this livestream. Here's the link to join from the Substack app or any web browser: Open.substack.com/live-stream/177257.
Tomorrow, Lori Olson White shares her deep thinking about how to share our present times with our FUTURE descendants at the time of the American Tricentennial, in the year 2076. The program is free but will be held on Zoom. See the link for details and to register: https://tockify.com/eventscalendar/detail/239/1776358800000?startms=1775026800000
🫠 Have we melted yet? If you’ve been joining us in this Ride Along you must be exhausted. I know I am. With less than 24 hours left, get some rest for the final push to learn from the conference and capture the resources to dig into in the months to come (cuz that’s what it’s gonna take!) I’ve just updated the ridealongpartners.org page to include both general announcements AND your fine recordings and posts: Jennifer Jones, Bill Moore, Kyla Bayang, Our Growing Family Tree, Lori Olson White, Kathy Stone, Deborah Carl, Gwynn Socolich, MelRootsNWrites, and so many more…. (I’m channeling my days with the high-school newspaper here…) Two general news notes for the Home page. GROUP PHOTO: Did you miss picture day! That’s okay. I’ve got a nifty Dropbox to fix that. WATCH Parties 👀🎉 : Get in on this. Two more for tomorrow. And… a last minute calendar change: DearMYRTLE joins me tomorrow in my own last RideAlong livestream for the week. We’ll attempt a wrap up for all this. Everything else is on the /events calendar! Unfortunately, Taneya Koonce couldn’t make it, but I’ll get a rain-check for a future livestream. She’s amazing, stay tuned for that.
Graphic for Projectkin.org talk with Rhonda Lauritzen of Evalogue.life: "The Hard Stuff: Navigating sensitivities, trauma, and secrets in family storytelling." Approaching sensitivities, surprises, and trauma in family storytelling. This program will be held via Zoom. This program is free. Please register for your personal Zoom link. Have you struggled with how to approach a difficult topic in your family's story? This webinar will empower you to navigate sensitive subjects with empathy and grace. You can craft stories that foster healing and avoid disrupting relationships. Embrace mindsets to support your wellbeing while revisiting the adversity in your own story or examining tales from the past. You will come away with practical approaches for writing about touchy topics like secrets, surprises, and hardship, including guidance for when to share and when to keep stories private. Become empowered to foster growth and connection while avoiding disruptions to relationships. Inspire your family to understand how your ancestors overcame hardship or how you persevered through your most challenging times.
Graphic image featuring Barbara of Projectkin and Kathy Stone, headline reads "The view from Kathy's Corner."
Why an opportunity to participate in #Geneabloggers' talk with Steve Little, sharing his best tools for genealogy. With so many competing tools and dark arts of orchestrating between them. Hat's off to this remarkable community. Hat's off to @dearmyrtle.bsky.social 🎩 #familyhistory #genealogy
Education in a Small Welsh Place. “This rural, unassuming parish now had its first lending library... Other such libraries were popping up in the area around this time too. The neighbouring town of Lampeter and other rural parishes like Llandyssul and Llanwnen also received their own. In fact, these chests of books weren’t just sent to Wales or even across the British Isles, they were sent all around the world to far-off places like the West Indies, Bengal, Newfoundland, and South Africa. The American colonies of Maryland, Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania were home to the earliest and largest of these collections..” Explore post Cellan’s Lending Library. All Saint’s Church, Cellan, by Roger D. Kidd, 2010, Geograph, cc-by-sa2.0 From Cellan’s Lending Library, a post by Dai Davies
Graphic image referencing both Projectkin and Geneabloggers logos with a headline “Let’s do this, together!”” And the RootsTech Ride Along logo for 2026.
Screenshot of the post Left Behind by Deborah Carl in the Projectkin Stories250 timeline https://yourfamilyquest.substack.com/p/left-behind at Projectkin.org/stories250-timeline
Coming in just a few hours (8 am GMT / midnight PST) a special post sharing my plans for a "Ride Along" to #RootsTech2026. I'd love to hear what you think. I'll catch ya when our sun's up here in California. https://projectkin.substack.com/p/intro-ride-along-2026 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #GenHour
I was distracted by WikiTree content injections when my Zarabeth threatened to step in and take over the RootsTech Ride Along. Oh my, can’t have that. Stay tuned for a post tomorrow.
Preview image for our special event celebrating the holidays as Projectkin with our Speakers’ Corner speakers, each sharing a holiday memory and inspiring each other. What fun. Copy reads “Speakers’ Corner » Remembrances of Holidays Past from our Storytellers” The recording is now live: https://open.substack.com/pub/projectkin/p/speakers-corner-holidays?r=2tc6pc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Graphic images combined with a clip from our video preview of the program held earlier this week. To watch that full video, please visit Projectkin.org/live.
See the full recording with a transcript at https://projectkin.substack.com/p/projectkin-live-the-view-from-kathys-319?r=2tc6pc
Screenshot reads: SMALL CHANGE, HUGE IMPACT Ancestry.com recently updated their Terms of Service to include ”In exchange for access to the Services, you agree... Not to use the Services in connection with any law enforcement investigation or judicial proceeding."