Weekly LIVE Updates at Projectkin

About Weekly LIVE Updates at Projectkin

Archives of our weekly updates from Barbara, the Projectkin ringleader. Each week, she shares a short update about what's ahead for the coming week, inviting guests to share their perspectives or plans for special events. Though the program is live, recordings provide access to useful links and references discussed during the program. The live event is available only to subscribers and followers through the Substack app for web, desktop, or mobile. Subscriptions are free. projectkin.substack.com (https://projectkin.substack.com/s/live?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Barbara at Projectkin

Category

history · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2024

Latest episode

11 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

83 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Projectkin Live: Preview as Emma Explores: Stories, Mysteries & Fame

   Gosh, many thanks to our wonderful audience today, Jim the Historian (https://open.substack.com/users/25723678-jim-the-historian?utm_source=mentions), Linda Teather (https://open.substack.com/users/185449888-linda-teather?utm_source=mentions), Jason Stephenson (https://open.substack.com/users/150447927-jason-stephenson?utm_source=mentions), Diane Burley (https://open.substack.com/users/183003391-diane-burley?utm_source=mentions), Kathy Stone (https://open.substack.com/users/177868959-kathy-stone?utm_source=mentions), Baley Champagne (https://substack.com/profile/177436055-baley-champagne), The Wicked Sommelier (https://substack.com/profile/477392485-the-wicked-sommelier), A Royal Australian (https://substack.com/profile/162707103-a-royal-australian), and so many more of you for joining Emma - Journeys into Genealogy (https://open.substack.com/users/174917624-emma-journeys-into-genealogy?utm_source=mentions) and me today. It’s lovely to see you joining from the UK and the European continent, across the American states and Canadian provinces. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this community together. The ❤️s you drop here keep us motivated and give this series a little more visibility. You’re always welcome to create clips from this post to share with fellow travelers on this journey into genealogy. Projectkin (http://projectkin.org/) programming is offered free thanks to the kind support of our generous patrons (http://projectkin.org/patrons) around the world 🌎. The Fox Family of Falmouth This month, Emma’s journey takes us to the port city of Falmouth in Cornwall, so important to many of our family histories as an embarkation point for migration paths to the West and North. Her story explores the life and times of Nathaniel Fox, ironmonger and manufacturer who married into a daughter of the family of James Blatch Cox. You may remember that name from Emma’s program last year about the Blatch Cox family and the wider Cornish diaspora: We chatted briefly about Cornish miners, pasties, and the the 'married widows' of the larger Cornish diaspora that took families to America, Australia, and elsewhere around the world. This was a topic Emma covered in her 2023 interview with Lesley Trotter: If you’re not already familiar with Emma’s work on the nearly 150 episodes of the Journeys into Genealogy podcast, you won’t want to miss her publication here: For those of us exploring our Quaker ancestors, part of what makes this story so interesting is Nathaniel’s own history as a descendant of the Fox family and Emma’s insights about research tools to explore members of the Society of Friends in Britain. Join us on Thursday Like all of our Emma Explores (http://projectkin.org/emma-explores) programs, today’s preview takes us to the full presentation next week. We host these on Zoom so that we can get to know each other and discuss the implications of Emma’s presentation in our own research and history. Please visit the event page for more: Diasporas, Migration & Place Conversations about port cities like Falmouth quickly lead to discussions about Projectkin’s Migration Stories (http://projectkin.org/migration-stories) initiative and the special ten-day program organized by the Society of Genealogists (https://sog.org.uk/), All About That Place (http://sog.org.uk/welcome-to-all-about-that-place/). Projectkin is delighted to be supporting the AATP program again this year with a “Pacific Edition,” a ten-day series of short livestreams each day of the program from Oct 7 to 16 (or 8 to 17 in Asia/Pacific). See our growing schedule of AATP events for October (https://tockify.com/eventscalendar/pinboard?search=aatp&startms=1790838000000). If you have your own event planned, drop me a message, I’d be happy to include your event on the calendar. As always if you have friends and family who may find this discussion interesting, feel free to share it. It is public and accessible, even without a login. Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe (https://projectkin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Projectkin Live: Speakers’ Corner Preview as Jill Ball and Jenny MacKay Join Jennifer Jones

   What a delight to see Jim the Historian (https://substack.com/profile/25723678-jim-the-historian), Diane Giles (https://substack.com/profile/263711402-diane-giles), Linda Teather (https://substack.com/profile/185449888-linda-teather), Frances Ford (https://substack.com/profile/128088174-frances-ford), Kyla Bayang (https://substack.com/profile/316733498-kyla-bayang), Diane Burley (https://substack.com/profile/183003391-diane-burley), Kathy Stone (https://substack.com/profile/177868959-kathy-stone), Tamara Buzyna Adams (https://substack.com/profile/68866172-tamara-buzyna-adams), Judith Dianne Ely (https://substack.com/profile/16988174-judith-dianne-ely), Anne’s Family History (https://substack.com/profile/177362406-annes-family-history), Susanne White (https://substack.com/profile/329121384-susanne-white), Carmel G (https://substack.com/profile/250712115-carmel-g), and many others for tuning into Jennifer Jones (https://substack.com/profile/260013785-jennifer-jones) live video with Jill Ball aka GeniAus (https://substack.com/profile/147098782-jill-ball-aka-geniaus) and Jenny MacKay (https://substack.com/profile/185415238-jenny-mackay)! It means so much to see our community joining in from across the American states and the Canadian provinces to hear stories from your Australian history. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this community together. The little ❤️s you drop keep us motivated and give this series a little more visibility. Feel free to create clips from this post to share with your friends. Projectkin (http://projectkin.org/) programming is offered free thanks to the kind support of our generous patrons (http://projectkin.org/patrons) around the world. Joy in Convicts? Who Knew! Our joyful conversation today was the perfect preview of the full Speakers’ Corner program planned for Thursday across the Americas or Friday for all of you in Australia and the Asia/Pac region. Before we go further, take a moment to be sure you’ve registered for that program here 👇: Except for the program about Caroline Chisholm (https://projectkin.substack.com/p/speakers-corner-caroline-chisholm) that launched the series last year, this was perhaps our most Australian program, and what a thrill for the rest of us. We learned a few things about our Aussie cousins and had a chance to fill in the blanks about what we thought we knew. As your beaver-in-chief, Barbara at Projectkin (http://substack.com/@projectkin) was running alongside, trying to keep up with the links and references. Here are the big ones: * As background for our program, let’s start with Jenny MacKay’s and Jill Ball’s websites: You can also find Jenny’s Jenealogy Scrapbook on WeAre.xyz (https://app.weare.xyz/jenealogy-scrapbook/home) Also, don’t miss Jill’s genea jargon site at GeneaDictionary on WordPress (https://geneadictionary.wordpress.com/)! Perhaps it’s just because we all share a generation, but everyone’s interest in genealogy seemed to find its way back to the first release of the Roots miniseries in 1977, which aired in Australia on Channel 10 and drew massive mainstream audiences (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/roots-remake-whatever-happened-to-the-major-television-event). The conversation got serious as we dove into the strength and resilience these Convict Ancestors inspired in their descendants, and Jenny and Jill each had stories to tell about their discoveries about these now Royal Ancestors. Woven into each story are threads of Australian history, shortages of workers, and patterns not unlike the American and Canadian West. As an American, I was quickly sent to search for details about the 1988 Bicentenary, which celebrated the 11 ships of the First Fleet of convicts that arrived in Botany Bay and Sydney Cove. For context about the experience of Convicts brought to Australia, Jenny, Jill and Jennifer shared a few links: * An online exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery from 2024: Unshackled: The True Convict Story (https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/unshackled). * The remarkable resources, newspapers, and even blogs archived through Trove from the National Library of Australia (https://trove.nla.gov.au/). * Finally, since it’s still free through September 9th, Jenny MacKay (https://substack.com/@jaypm55) mentioned Shauna Hicks’ presentation for Legacy Family Tree Webinars on Free Websites for Western Australia Family History (https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/top-5-free-websites-for-western-australia-family-history), including the State Library, State Records, Outback Australia (goldfields), Fremantle Prison (transported convicts), and BDM tips and tricks. Did we miss something? Drop it in the notes below, or feel free to share this with friends and have them join you at the program on later this week! Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe (https://projectkin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   16 Aug 2026

   Live "Capturing the Lives of the Stigmatised & Marginalised" with Dai Davies

   Thank you, Jude Rhodes (https://substack.com/profile/228199044-jude-rhodes), Noel Macdonald Peck (https://substack.com/profile/29223243-noel-macdonald-peck), Jim the Historian (https://substack.com/profile/25723678-jim-the-historian), Shell Norman (https://substack.com/profile/249478639-shell-norman), Linda Teather (https://substack.com/profile/185449888-linda-teather), Diane Burley (https://substack.com/profile/183003391-diane-burley), Frances Ford (https://substack.com/profile/221925849-frances-ford), Dan at Genealogy Assistant (https://substack.com/profile/259433108-genealogy-assistant), Katy Dalgleish (https://substack.com/profile/10121891-katy-dalgleish), GrnEyedLdy (https://substack.com/profile/106703316-grneyedldy), Jill Swenson (https://substack.com/profile/17281869-jill-swenson), and all of you in the audience today. Truly, thank you for joining Dai Davies (https://genealcymru.com/about/) at The GenealCymru Newsletter (https://open.substack.com/pub/genealcymru) and me today. Your added ❤️s and comments here help the algorithms appreciate the moment and put it in front of more people who might be interested. Thank you. Do you have family stories in you? Do you notice characteristics of your ancestors? Tell us about it in the comments below Projectkin (http://projectkin.org/) programming is offered free with the kind support of our Patrons (http://projectkin.org/patrons) worldwide. Explore our story and join us 👇. Where the Facts Aren’t Useful Early on in anyone’s family history journey, we usually learn certain fundamental rules like… * The importance of being accurate in your reporting of the facts in a story. * Not publishing information about living people. Each seems sensible when you consider the risk of distorting the facts about history or the unintended consequences of publishing details about other people’s lives. In my conversation with Dai, we looked straight into the uncomfortable topic of how stories about people who died by suicide can have a direct impact on living people in times of crisis. Insights from their own research Dai was drawn into this area from their own research into “The Ancestors Lost by Suicide Commemoration Project (https://genealcymru.com/albsc-project/)” The project had them produce short biographies of the lives of all of their ancestors in England and Wales who died by suicide between the late 18th and early 20th century. The first key insight was that by collecting these ancestors together, there’s a temptation to talk about how they died by suicide, but in doing so, the person is immediately washed away. Dai didn’t want to do that. Instead, their research led to work on safe messaging by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (https://afsp.org/) (afsp.org (https://afsp.org/)) and to the realization that they could do so much more by understanding each individual as a person. These were remarkable individuals, each deserving of dignity and the depth of research needed to explore who they were as people. Sometimes the details help us understand the complex situation they were in. Other resources they shared include: * Wikipedia’s List of Suicide Crisis Lines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines) * SuicideInfo.ca (https://www.suicideinfo.ca/) Dai’s key takeaway was something all of us can learn from in the insights about why we’re embarking on this kind of storytelling. Dai discovered that they wanted to make their research “useful” to living people today. Stories about success or failure can be interesting on their own, but what’s useful is understanding how change occurred. Dai shares several resources in each post in this series. During our conversation, they mentioned Rev. Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) of Maesnewydd, Llanwnen (1792–1846) (https://genealcymru.com/2025/07/11/albsc-daniel-ddu/) Under headings like “Debunking Common Myths About Suicide” and “Talking and Writing About Suicide,” they’ve stepped up to be part of the solution, helping all of us as family historians better understand the stories behind the individuals in our research who also died by suicide. This series has made Dai a sought-after speaker on the topic. They welcome the opportunity to share what they’ve learned in public forums. * Learn more about their research services (https://genealcymru.com/welsh-genealogy-research-services/) * See their speaking schedule (https://genealcymru.com/talks/) * Reach Dai at GenealCymru (https://genealcymru.com/contact/) Would your friends and followers appreciate this post as well? Kindly add a recommendation so they know how you feel. You’ll be doing us the favor of spreading our work. Thank you. I’m able to share these and all of our programs and posts for free, thanks to both the economics of modern platforms and the generous support of our wonderful Projectkin patrons. You’re more than welcome to share this post with friends and family to encourage them to take the time to consider their own stories. Thank you. Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe (https://projectkin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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• Cynthia Nims
• Diane Burley
• Kathy Stone
• Jennifer Jones
• Emma Cox

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