Projectkin’s Ride Along with DearMYRTLE

Thank you, Kirstin at Our Growing Family Tree, Jennifer Jones, Linda Teather, Lynda Heines, Felix Rendina, Ruth Stroud, Bill Moore, Lori Olson White, Kathy Stone, Lacie Madison, Becky Hetchler, Kimmy Win, Sheila Breeden and many others for tuning into my live video today with DearMYRTLE!I can’t tell you how much it means to us to see you join us from across the planet. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this global community together. Were you there? Did I miss you? The chat isn’t captured, but your additions can be by dropping them into the comments below.Projectkin programming is offered free with the kind support of our Patrons worldwide. Explore our story and join us 👇.Today’s Tips and TakeawaysThe first takeaway is a tremendous sense of gratitude to our DearMyrtle, and to all of you as members of our shared GeneaBloggers and Projectkin community. You’re amazing. I hope you all appreciate what just happened here. On a shoestring budget, we managed to connect an online community with a few dozen individuals on-site, creating a community larger than any of us. We’ve inspired each other to learn, create, and inspire others. Yeah, there’s still a little “Kum Ba Ya” out there in this complicated world. Today’s conversation included many ideas we will expand on in future events as a collaboration and as individuals. My biggest takeaway was in… * The compelling power of a story. We talked about the example of a heartbeat in the way one story might rise to a stressful point, then conclude with a resolution. One story leads to another. Together, the stories remind us how we’re connected as a group. For context, don’t miss the interviews Myrt was doing on the show floor. You’ll find them at the top left of RideAlongPartners.org/recordings.That storytelling pattern was in full display in my conversation yesterday with Simon from WeAre.xyz. We went from the Japanese tea ceremony to family artifacts and finally the WeAre community, a new feature of their software. And truly, since our session was immediately followed by Kyla & Bill’s Excellent Adventure (in the Ride Along), it seems only appropriate to tuck that link right in here too. You won’t want to miss it: Unloading 🚙 our RideI’m confident now that we’ll do this again, perhaps even a few times before the next RootsTech. One of the elements I thought was important (and want to improve on) is the RideAlongPartners.org website. After this circulates, I’m going to run back and update it with your many additions (including this recording). But keep them coming. In the meantime, I’ll endeavor to continue to update the site through the conclusion of the scheduled meetings for my sister publication, MissionGenealogy, next week. I hope you can join us for a debrief at either of the two times. Please note that this is a simple Zoom meeting and won’t be recorded to encourage candid conversations. I hope that by next year, I’ll have come up with an automation scheme (still cheap or free) that would allow the updates to happen without me, but we’re not quite there yet. From the start, Geneabloggers and Projectkin have shared a passion for family history and storytelling since the beginning. We both see the extraordinary value of pursuing this work with the support and encouragement of a community. So, with RootsTech approaching, it only made sense to do this together. It was an honor to have YOU on this ride-along. Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe