It’s been a remarkable month since we launched MissionGenealogy.org. We launched the community with a roundtable meeting about a month ago and haven’t looked back. You welcomed us with open arms and have jumped in to help make this community successful.
With just a few days until our next roundtable on Tuesday… Our next Roundtable discussion is on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 10 AM PT, 1 PM ET, 6 PM BST, 19:00 CET (Free, register for the Zoom link)
Have a suggestion for a topic? Add to this thread 👇
How do YOU think this community might help family historians and genealogists?
What does success look like?
Please share your thoughts here 👇 and let’s get the conversation going! By the way, don’t miss our community recommendations page. (Add your stack, discover others! Explore here)
Done and Dusted, @ancestory, I've just added your recommendations page to MissionGenealogy.org/community. Since your addition completed a "rack" of four, I bumped your rack of four stacks to the top (it's my humble form of rotation.) Anyone else care to have their family history or genealogy substack added to our Community Recommendations page?
I know *I* have already referred new Substackers to it. Until we have a "Tag" for Genealogy at the top of that Home page, this is useful way to discover new substacks. Want to join us? Say the word, drop me a DM. 👋
When I think about the community here, I see such a huge variety of applications of how we all do genealogy. We are a wonderful collection of individual subject matter experts in our various pursuits. Because we are all family historians, some of what we do always overlaps into areas we are less familiar with, whether a new location (I'm looking at you Great Britian), a new program (WikiTree), or set of records.
My vision and hope for the community here on SubStack is that when we hit one of those places in our work, this will be a place to come and post a question or ask for help. Hopefully, someone in our community will have an answer or be able to guide our work in a way that only an insider would know!
We might even want to facilitate some of that knowledge by finding ways to identify ourselves as knowledgeable about particular subjects. We used a similar system at an early tech company I worked for, and because of it, our collaborative efforts were always much better.
Oh... interesting idea! We could do that! A simple Google Form feeding a Google Sheet that's embedded and displayed on a MissionGenealogy web page should do it. I could use the same builder tool as MissionGenealogy.org/community. The challenge will be sorting keywords and essentially building a structure for it, country, technology platform, record type are terrific examples.
Sorry to miss this - Tuesday is my very busy day every week. Still unclear on how I have anything to offer as well as how I'm not particularly enamored of using podcasts/tech items... However, I'm hanging in here re genealogy/family history. :)
Celia, you’re always welcome. Sorry this falls on such a busy day for you. I’m glad you’re a part of Mission: Genealogy. If you ever just want to chat, please DM me anytime in the chat or start one up for the community.
Well, we're delighted to have you as part of the community. You're very welcome to follow along in written forms. These events won't be recorded to preserve the spontaneity of the moment, but we will take notes.
Ah yes, I'm so sorry about that. I can't do much about the curvature of the planet but as we grow with Projectkin's Pacific Edition (Projectkin.org/AATP24, timed just for you at a convenient 11AM or 12 noon in NZST,) maybe we can schedule MissionGenealogy programs then too. We'd just need to muster enough folks. Maybe for our first one we combine roundtable and office hours, how's that?
How does January work for you? Robin, let's compare calendars 😉
Hi there - I am not sure if you saw my chat- I have recommended a number of genealogy and family history stacks. How may our stacks be added to your recommendations page?
Dah! It’s early in my day here in California, I’ll go check. All you need do is ask. (And you have! Finishing up my coffee, it’ll be done in a jiffy.) anyone else?
Done and Dusted, @ancestory, I've just added your recommendations page to MissionGenealogy.org/community. Since your addition completed a "rack" of four, I bumped your rack of four stacks to the top (it's my humble form of rotation.) Anyone else care to have their family history or genealogy substack added to our Community Recommendations page?
I know *I* have already referred new Substackers to it. Until we have a "Tag" for Genealogy at the top of that Home page, this is useful way to discover new substacks. Want to join us? Say the word, drop me a DM. 👋
Barbara, I didn't realize you did that. Thanks!!
YOU were in the inaugural batch. Thank you. It's a great way to find to fellow-travelers on this genealogy journey. 😉
Duh! I remember you talking about that list but forgot all about it! Thanks for the reminder.
Meh, you're just that famous. You forget about all your press. 😉
Haha
When I think about the community here, I see such a huge variety of applications of how we all do genealogy. We are a wonderful collection of individual subject matter experts in our various pursuits. Because we are all family historians, some of what we do always overlaps into areas we are less familiar with, whether a new location (I'm looking at you Great Britian), a new program (WikiTree), or set of records.
My vision and hope for the community here on SubStack is that when we hit one of those places in our work, this will be a place to come and post a question or ask for help. Hopefully, someone in our community will have an answer or be able to guide our work in a way that only an insider would know!
We might even want to facilitate some of that knowledge by finding ways to identify ourselves as knowledgeable about particular subjects. We used a similar system at an early tech company I worked for, and because of it, our collaborative efforts were always much better.
Oh... interesting idea! We could do that! A simple Google Form feeding a Google Sheet that's embedded and displayed on a MissionGenealogy web page should do it. I could use the same builder tool as MissionGenealogy.org/community. The challenge will be sorting keywords and essentially building a structure for it, country, technology platform, record type are terrific examples.
Sorry to miss this - Tuesday is my very busy day every week. Still unclear on how I have anything to offer as well as how I'm not particularly enamored of using podcasts/tech items... However, I'm hanging in here re genealogy/family history. :)
Celia, you’re always welcome. Sorry this falls on such a busy day for you. I’m glad you’re a part of Mission: Genealogy. If you ever just want to chat, please DM me anytime in the chat or start one up for the community.
Well, we're delighted to have you as part of the community. You're very welcome to follow along in written forms. These events won't be recorded to preserve the spontaneity of the moment, but we will take notes.
Would love to join you some time but the timing is problematic for me at 5am NZST ... even more problematic for our AEST friends at 3am.
Ah yes, I'm so sorry about that. I can't do much about the curvature of the planet but as we grow with Projectkin's Pacific Edition (Projectkin.org/AATP24, timed just for you at a convenient 11AM or 12 noon in NZST,) maybe we can schedule MissionGenealogy programs then too. We'd just need to muster enough folks. Maybe for our first one we combine roundtable and office hours, how's that?
How does January work for you? Robin, let's compare calendars 😉
Yes! Let’s make this happen!
Thanks Barbara. Yes with all the time differences, it is always difficult trying to accommodate everyone .
lol, that's why we invented writing. 😉
Robin, Thanks for this. I've been on vacation so now I'm ready for the next one.
Hi there - I am not sure if you saw my chat- I have recommended a number of genealogy and family history stacks. How may our stacks be added to your recommendations page?
Dah! It’s early in my day here in California, I’ll go check. All you need do is ask. (And you have! Finishing up my coffee, it’ll be done in a jiffy.) anyone else?
Missiongenealogy.org/community