A Brief Chat in the Livestream with Janet Barrie

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This week, we caught up with

Janet Barrie

, Chair of the Society for One-Place Studies. Janet will be our guest at the first of a series of two talks on Thursday, February 6th, in our Atlantic time window.

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I first learned about the Society for One-Place Studies in 2023 as they were celebrating the anniversary of their tenth year with an extraordinary program over ten days called “All About That Place.” As you’ll see in that link 👈, the program was involved the collaboration across a dozen or more organizations. I was smitten.

In 2024, the UK-based Society of Genealogists team invited the

Projectkin Community Forum

to participate in their 2024 variation of the event as hosts for a Pacific Edition. (You can see the full 2024 series on YouTube here and all ten of our talks at Projectkin.org/AATP24.)

Since then, I’ve been casting about for ways to bring one-place studies into the programming series for Projectkin and was delighted that Janet accepted my invitation to help us get started with this educational series. Resources mentioned in today’s program included:

• Janet Few’s book “Ten Steps to a One-Place Study,” available in print and Kindle forms from Amazon.

• Janet Few’s expanded perspective in her November 2024 book, “Putting Your Ancestors in their Place: A Guide to One Place Studies,” on Amazon in a Kindle edition.

One of my favorite aspects of the Society for One-Place Studies is the notion of registering a study on their map and using that reference for collaboration. At an economical (￡10/annually) their membership program also adds more features such as access to collaboration and research tools.

The map of currently registered studies at the Society for One-Place Studies.

I expect we’ll go into this further during our program on Thursday, but I was delighted to see further experimentation in using online platforms to both archive learnings and engage collaborators in one-place studies. We talked specifically about:

• New features released by WeAre [xyz] to add a new type of archive for One-Place Studies

• Combining platforms to achieve your own objectives for sharing your research and working with others. We’ve seen a terrific example just this week from Projectkin member,

  Jane Chapman
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Again, I hope you can join us on Thursday for part one or in April for Part two of this delightful series.

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