Projectkin Live: A Peek at the Speakers’ Corner Queue with Jennifer Jones

Thank you Danine, Jane Chapman, Kathy Stone, Alan H Zeller, Emily Gravelle, Anne’s Family History, The Family Histories Podcast, Alex Daw, Greg WoodhouseNancy Feagans and so many others for joining us live! Along with your generous ❤️s, restacks, and shares, you have helped turn this publication into the supportive community we all want to see. You’re more than welcome to share this to invite friends and family to join us!It was a delight to share this sunny California Sunday with Projectkin member, and now Speakers' Corner producer, Jennifer Jones. Jennifer is the voice behind the publications Tracking Down the Family and her one-place study, Haverfordwest History. You may have seen her gracious “Sunday Snippets” roundups of posts over the last week.I've asked Jennifer to join me today to update us on this fun Speakers' Corner she's been working on. Before we get to that, we talked a little what’s ahead next week and our incredible event last week: Coming soon: Thursday, July 17.On Thursday with Emma Cox joining me from Kent in the UK over Zoom. You'll probably know Emma Cox as a genealogist for her fabulous podcast, Journeys into Genealogy and Substack of the same name or her substack divining into her own family stories. In her Emma Explores series for Projectkin, she takes a thematic view of her stories and shares sources and research strategies with us each month. This month, she'll be talking about the wool trade across the Atlantic between about 1600 and 1800. This period involved everything from piracy on the high seas to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. The event is free.Last Week: Using a Potluck to Spark Family StorytellingIn case you missed it, you can still watch the inspirational talk Cynthia Nims gave about using a Potluck to inspire conversations about family history. You’ll see the recording in our section on Project Recipes. One of the things we touched on was the power of food to evoke conversations about memories. And what better way to circle back to our Speakers’ Corner soapbox? Here’s the original post from a few weeks ago when we laid out plans for a series that would involve the telling of stories. So many of our programs for Projectkin involve the “how” of encouraging you to tell stories, this one is all about the actual stories. As our queue of storytellers has grown Jennifer has been able to put together some delightful combinations of speakers paired by themes while concurrently alternating times for these events between our Pacific and Atlantic time windows (more about that at Projectkin.org/events.) Though she’s booked events out into June 2026, there’s still room in the queue. Why not join us? In our enthusiasm, one thing that slipped by was a reference to the Members’ Map. This simple idea came up during my last Live conversation with Jennifer when I realized that she didn’t have a geographical sense for what regions members are in. A simple map would not only help her in planning, but really help all of us anticipate the scope of other members’ work and perhaps even help put people together so that they can help each other. So, though it’s entirely optional and requires an explicity signup, here’s the start to our Members’ Map: Projectkin.org/members-map. Care to join us and put yourself on the map? A simple form will do it: Projectkin.org/members-map-form. (I try to be predictable. 😉) Finally, a quick reminder about the Substack app: If you’re already a subscriber, consider the app for a comfortable reading experience on tablets and mobile phones. If you have your publication, you’ll appreciate how generous the Substack app is as a referral network. While thinking about that, did you know you can add or update recommendations for others at one convenient link: “your.substack.com/publish/recommendations.” Why not 👉 👈 try it now: Thank you so much for all you do for Projectkin, our members, and everyone in this generous community! Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe