Thank you
, , and really all of you for joining us in today. These sessions are always a fun way to stay connected as a community and look ahead to the coming week.As you probably know, you can now use the Substack app 👇 for mobile devices to view and record your own Live sessions. For our family history community, I’ve also posted a recording about Getting Started with Live in our January program MissionGenealogy.org/office-hours.
I’ve discovered that by tracking the chat thread on my desktop browser while broadcasting live from my iPad (🎉). Unfortunately, chat threads don’t persist so I’m afraid I can’t thank all of you individually. It is a delight to see you join. 🥰
I gave a couple of shameless plugs for coming events on the Projectkin Calendar. First is Thursday’s Recipe event to wrap up my Lafayette Project. You can learn all about it,1 and register here:
Second is next week’s Live event, followed by our April Kathy’s Corner event. Kathy plans to pick up on the idea I’ll be talking about with timelines to show you how you can use timelines to help manage your family's archive of artifacts. The thing is, for Europe and the Americas, our timing for Live programs lands during Easter Sunday. Is this a conflict for you? Let us know what you think. 👇
Resources mentioned
I want to follow up on a few links mentioned during the conversation. While discussing platforms and studies, we touched on the work of many projectkin members. Among specific links were…
Jennifer’s sites
- (Substack)
- (Substack)
Jones Family History (on WordPress)
Of challenges, studies & platforms
- ’ currently “A to Z Blogging Challenge” she’s actively posting about (as are many others) on her many sites. Here’s the home for that challenge at the A-to-ZChallenge.com.2
- ’s One-Place Study (Substack)
- ’s One-Place Study using the WeAre.xyz platform: For example, her public pages on the Cutting-Robinson-line
- who writes individual posts and notes here on Substack as well as for a well-known WordPress publication, ChiddicksFamilyTree.com.
- who is so well known for her bi-monthly Mondays with Myrt and Bookclub programs, is now active on Substack with .
- whom many of you already know for long-time Blogger site GeneaMusings.com is now active on Substack too!
Program in January about platforms including both Jane & Jennifer:
Earl Grey Girls
Jennifer’s post for the Projectkin Members’ Corner in 2024:
Famine and the Earl Grey Girl in My Family
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Our guest writer,Jennifer Joneswrites for her publication The Retirement Phase and joins us as part of our first cohort in the Projectkin Members’ Corner. Monthly posts from members celebrate their contributions to family history storytelling — in all its forms. Posts may be written or recorded (audio or video) will be shared for free each month. Explore the entire
The commemoration site for the Earl Grey Girls is called the Irish Famine Memorial. Under “Orphans” you’ll find a drop-down menu with links the to orphans database we talked about.
Wow, that was a lot. Did I miss any? Add notes and more in comments.
See what I did there? I also snuck in a little demo of the trick I mentioned to Jennifer for appearing to embed external content in Substack without actually embedding it. Here’s how that works:
I pulled up the target URL (https://Projectkin.org/lafayette), then went to the Facebook Developers’ Preview Debug page (you have to be logged into Facebook to use it, then went to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and…
pasted my link. The tool gives you a “preview” of how your page will appear on Facebook.
⮕ This tool simply reveals the HTML standards-based metadata for your web page.
I grabbed a screenshot and pasted it into this article. Like it? 👉 👈
CamelCase makes it easier to read, but did you know that capitalization doesn’t matter in domain names but it can matter for text after the “/”. (Sometimes called the slug. Go figure!) I didn’t know this until just a few years ago; perhaps it’s news to you, too.
