A stack of things to do
Introducing the readers of my online research journal to my Substack
https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/a-stack-of-things-to-do/
Recently I joined a new publishing platform called 'Substack', connecting there with its community of genealogists. I am still finding my way around, trying, for one thing, to understand the Substack difference between 'posts' and 'notes'.
Barbara at Projectkin gave a brief presentation about Substack for the genealogy community. See:
'Substack' is monetised, with its promoters taking 10% of paid newsletter subscriptions sold through the site. You can subscribe for free to my substack at:
My purpose in writing about family history is to share what I discover. I have no interest in being paid; all my posts will be available to subscribers for nothing.
Apart from the 10% share in revenue there is no charge for using the Substack platform, and it makes no money from advertising: the platform will remain officially ad-free.
Substack's layout is clean and modern and very easy to use. There are limited options for customizing your Substack site. The focus is on content, not presentation.
I don’t think that I will be moving away from my present WordPress journal, which is a website and a blog. Substack, by contrast, is built on email newsletters
An author with the handle Burk, writes “For many bloggers, the best solution is to use Substack alongside their own website.” He suggests “Publish full articles on your blog, then share summaries or excerpts in your Substack newsletter driving readers to the blog to read more.”
I am enjoying reading contributions by genealogy writers at Substack. Barbara at Projectkin is very welcoming and “facilitates a community of family historians”. I have found her posts about the site very useful.
As part of the forum, she hosts regular sessions with Kathy Stone, a photo organiser, on how to handle your collections of photographs. I will be applying Kathy’s advice to my own photograph collection.
‘Mightier Acorns’ has suggested we should concentrate on “tracing and documenting all 16 great-grandparents”. A number of members of the family history community at Substack have taken up the challenge. I will too.
Some bloggers I follow have made their way to Substack. These include Jennifer Jones, Alex Daw, Carole McCulloch, and Jill Ball.
I look forward to reading the work of these and other family historians on the Substack site.
Later this month the Projectkin Forum will be hosting a Pacific Edition of 'All About That Place', joining the online international event hosted by the UK Society of Genealogists and the Society of One Place Studies which focuses on place-based research. I will be speaking on 5/6 October: My topic is “Homebush, a gold mining hamlet in central Victoria, Australia, which was divided on how its contribution to the WW1 war effort should be commemorated.”
You can register for the talk at: https://www.facebook.com/events/8994647237218087/
Oh, my goodness, thank you for kind words for Projectkin.org and MissionGenealogy.Substack.com. I can see you’re going to be an incredibly generous contributor to the family history and genealogy community on Substack.
Because she was away on a brief vacation in the wilderness, you haven’t yet had the chance to meet my partner in MissionGenealogy, @Robin Stewart. As you’ll soon see, she’s the North Star in all of this. She keeps us centered and focused on values like Trust, Kindness, and Candor.
Again, welcome. 🤗