Today’s livestream was a bit of an experiment on several levels. Many thanks to Linda Teather, Diane Burley, Kyla Bayang, Durrone, Jennifer Jones, Jayne Buchanan, Wendy Scalfaro, Roger Hammons, Gadsby Family History, Jill Swenson, Makis Lefteratos, ZURIA, By Johnny Zuri, Tamara Buzyna Adams, Lin Parker, Country Girl, MamaCarole and really all of you watching this as a recording and for creating such a warm welcome for Andrew Martin of the The Family Histories Podcast today. Your thoughts, comments, and encouragement are the glue that holds this community together. The ❤️s you drop here keep us motivated and give this series a little more visibility. You’re always welcome to create clips from this post to share with fellow travelers on this genealogy journey. Learn more about Projectkin, then join us for more free programs, stories, and encouragement in your inbox. We Experiment, So You Don’t Have To 🤫 Andrew was such a charming and gracious guest to put up with my experiment with our first-ever multi-stream, essentially livestreaming to both Substack and YouTube audiences simultaneously. Other than a brief lip-sync issue on the YouTube side, I think it was a technical success. For Andrew, a highly experienced podcaster, this was his first experience on a livestream. I think you could all see what a pro he is. Thank you so much for giving him a warm welcome. If you’re not familiar with his Family Histories Podcast, you’ll find it on his site, Familyhistoriespodcast.com, all the usual podcasting sites like Spotify, which happens to embed nicely here: Or, Andrew’s profile, still new to Substack: Our wide-ranging conversation followed the kinds of topics that brought us together from the All About That Place series organized by the Society of Genealogists, the registry of the Society for One-Place Studies to his own work as an archivist for a collection in Cambridgeshire. We’ll get to archives, dinosaurs and shirt factories in a moment, but before we do, I wanted to be sure to reference the two AATP talks he highlighted: * Ruth Wilmore’s talk, Birtles Vicarage: More Than Tea and Theology * Jude Rhodes’ talk Changing Places Through Occupation Both talks are still available on the linked Society of Genealogists’ Learning Hub, but only until the end of this week. After that, access to the talks may be limited to gold members of the SoG. If this is new to you, you may also enjoy exploring the wonderful collection of materials in that Learning Hub. Don’t miss the downloadable materials with many of the talks. A True Professional Digging a little further into Andrew’s background, we learned about his work as an archivist in Cambridgeshire, and he shared the range of work he’s done and his perspective on handling and preserving so many physical objects, including the Ophthalmosaurus. As we learned, at the time of its discovery, this was the largest-eyed dinosaur and lived underwater. Yep, we all had to look it up here on Wikipedia, and at Linda Teather’s suggestion, in this prehistoric fandom page, have a good time in there! About Migrations We also talked briefly about our migration stories. This is a favorite topic of mine but is also a key element binding many members of our community together from the European continent, across the British Isles, Canada, the United States, and across the Pacific to New Zealand, Australia, and East Asia. We’re always interested in these stories. Learn more about and join us by sharing your own… The first in our regular series of programs about migration stories is on Thursday this week during our Pacific hour (Friday in Asia/Pacific), featuring Robin R. Foster of GenealogyJustAsk whose Migration Path, “Freedom Seekers,” is already our largest and fastest-growing path yet. I hope you can join us: Like all of our programs, these are free and supported by the generous contributions of our Projectkin Patrons. We share a love for family history and a commitment to helping others see the potential for using these kinds of stories to connect us. Meet our patrons. As always, if you find these materials helpful and think they might help others in your circle, please recommend us. You can do this if you have a publication of your own by tapping this button: Get full access to Projectkin at projectkin.substack.com/subscribe