Whose Data Is It, Anyway? How Permanent.org Stands Apart
As we celebrate Love Your Data Week, take a moment to reflect on how you’re making informed decisions to preserve and protect your digital legacy.…
February 12, 2025
Steve Szabados’ Writing Your Family History for the Nonwriter
Were your ancestors royalty or members of the working class? Were they rich or barely surviving? Whoever they were, we need to preserve their memory. This program will discuss a…
April 16, 2024
How to Date Old Photographs
Discover how to uncover clues to help determine when a photograph was taken. This class will be held in person as well as virtually via Zoom simultaneously. Registration is required…
April 16, 2024
“How Stories Passed Down Through the Generations Can Help Uncover a Family’s Journey: The Story of B-Papa” by Dara Tolbert Brooks
The Manatee Genealogical Society will host a hybrid meeting and program on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm EST. Our program speaker, Dara Tolbert Brooks, will present…
April 16, 2024
Hidden Information in Old Photographs with Stephen Gill
The talk follows a timeline of photographic history and how it can relate to your own research. We look at examples where looking at details can help put a photo…
April 16, 2024
Kathy’s Corner: Digitizing that collection of inherited family photos
This popular monthly session focuses on a challenge for every family historian: Sorting and digitizing collections of inherited family photos and artifacts. Our speaker, Projectkin member Kathy Stone has decades…
February 28, 2024
Project Recipe: Weaving a Grandmother’s Letters into a Story
Insight from a published author about a book in progress This very special event features Kathryn Graven, acclaimed author of “Memoirs of a Mask Maker” as she discusses a new…
February 28, 2024
Project Clinic: Family History Project Ideas
These very special brainstorming sessions will allow anyone with a story to tell to bring their tale to this open lab to sort through the best way to tell it…
February 28, 2024
Discover Your Past: The Chosen Families Project
Several years ago, genealogist Julian Rebelo created The Chosen Family Project (https://www.julianrebelo.com/blog?offset=1652374506063) out of his passion for collecting orphaned family photographs and documents, whilst trying to reunite them with their…
February 28, 2024
“RootsTech Wash Up Party” with Hilary Blanford
As RootsTech events wrap, let’s compare notes in a “wash up party!” The conference talks, exhibition halls, and special events of RootsTech get everyone in a lather about what’s new,…
February 28, 2024
