Thank you, Kathy Stone, Bill Moore, Lori Olson White, Richard Francis Hogan, Iowa Roots, Dr. Mary M. Marshall, Taneya Koonce, Jane Chapman, Story Carrier, Ryan Shields and all of you who joined us live today. It’s always a delight to feel your warmth and support!

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 as a way to invite friends and family to join us!

Today, as with each of these programs, we focused on highlighting key events for the coming week. This week, I’m excited to describe two programs that build on suggestions and encouragement from all of you, our members.

Kathy’s Corner on Rights & Relatives

I started the recording with this to follow up on my conversation with Kathy Stone during last week’s Substack Live program when we talked about Fair Use and Deborah Carl’s fabulous Tip about Copyright.

This week, on Thursday, Kathy Stone will build on that to talk about copyright in images and tips on strategies to get your extended family members to share the digital photos they have. In fact, over in the Projectkin Subscriber Chat threads, you’ll find the discussion has already started:

It’s a fascinating topic. Join the conversation, then join us on Thursday. It’s free, and the details with timing are here in our calendar:

Jennifer Jones at the Speakers’ Corner

This next one was a special because it’s a sneak about the launch of a whole new series featuring all of you! As I shared in the video, Jennifer Jones will be our Projectkin producer in curating speakers on different topics for a monthly “Speakers’ Corner.” We’ll share the details in a post and on the calendar on Tuesday. Stay tuned for that!

In the meantime, if you already have an idea and would like to join the queue to take the soapbox and speak, share it! Let’s see if we can’t make it work.

* Projectkin.org/speakers-queue

Each event is going to take some curation of topics, people, schedules and international time zones, so I ask your patience. Stay tuned for more.

Oh yes, then there was that observation

While we were chatting up the challenge of negotiating meeting times across international time zones, I mentioned the idea of collecting addresses to put everyone (who wants to) on a global map of membership. I was thrilled to see one arrive already. Give me a month or so, and I should be able to get a little program in place. I know just what to do. These plates are spinning already. But hey, I’m feeling better!

Finally, I’ll let you in on a little secret. If you have a publication, did you know that you can directly see how many new subscribers you have that discovered you through it app. Really. Just go to your publication Stats page with this link:

* your.substack.com/publish/stats/network (Substack will magically redirect that to your own URL).

That shows you the percentage of new subscribers who came to you from each source. For me, over 25% of new subscribers came from the app. That’s eye-popping. How about you?

So… «ehem» I’m always happy to recommend using the app. Who knows what other interesting publications you’ll discover?

Gosh, if you aren’t already a member, let’s take care of that right here: 👇

Meanwhile, stay tuned for next week when we’ll talk about Tuesday’s Q&A session “Office Hours” for Mission: Genealogy. Till then! 👋

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