Just Getting Started!
We’re not a platform, personal service, or consultancy. We’re not making money from this, nor are we asking for money. We’re a community of family historians hooked on stories.
Using modern tools we’re able to hold this all together on a shoestring budget and take care of each other with tips, tricks, and an appreciation for what’s important.
Getting Noticed
Starting anything is hard. We fit into established categories for businesses, startups, or societies. It’s taken some hoopla 🎉 to get noticed by the press and other taste-makers who care about family history. Slowly, it’s happening, however. Our followings have grown in social media, and recently we were included in newsletters and podcasts.
In May 2024, we celebrated our “birthday” in a suitable fashion with a video post and commentaries on Substack.
Happy Birthday, Projectkin 🎂
For the occasion of RootsTech 2024, Melissa Ann Kitchen, family historian, writer, and now Projectkin member, interviewed Barbara for her podcast, Preserve Your Past:
In the fall of 2023, Emma Cox, an incomparable journalist and connector out of the UK and host for the delightful Journeys into Genealogy included us in one of her podcast episodes:
Earlier, even before “Post-Ponga” turned into Projectkin.org, Bobbi Chegwyn, a life coach for midlife women pick up the story for her podcast Fly Mom, Fly! about women reinventing themselves in midlife:
About Barbara
Barbara Tien leads the community informed by her experience as a co-founder of the innovative Ponga.com platform. She started Projectkin.org in May 2023 as “Post-Ponga” to give Ponga members an offramp for their photo and story archives when she and her co-founders had to take the platform offline. Previously, she held senior roles in hardware and software startups, primarily in the networking and telecommunications arena.
While we can now accept small contributions to support operations, we’re not formally a non-profit. Filing to create a US non-profit is expensive, with a tax benefit limited to US donors. For now, we’re benefitting greatly from the economics of modern digital tools and the willingness of our members to share ideas and techniques generously. We’re currently exploring means to share an accounting of expenses and contributions.
For press inquiries, contact Barbara at projectkin.org@gmail.com.
More about Barbara and what motivated her in the family history space in this 2021 interview on All Home Care Matters: