[UPDATED 24-Sept-2025—Added Speaker: Jude Rhodes on October 3rd.]

All About That Place 2025! (AATP25)

In 2024, Projectkin was delighted to join All About That Place, a celebration of one-place studies organized by the Society of Genealogists in collaboration with the Society for One-Place Studies, the British Association for Local History (BALH), and Genealogy Stories. Projectkin’s contribution was to co-sponsor the Pacific edition, a series of five live talks over the 10 days of the program. The idea was to help spread the concept in the Pacific region, so talks were generally related to places across the Americas and in the Pacific region. You’ll find the Projectkin recordings in the Society’s YouTube playlist for AATP24 and in a dedicated page at Projectkin.org/AATP24.

This year, the Society will celebrate one-place studies with a “Mini AATP” focusing on the 162 talks in the archive of the remarkable series on YouTube. They’ll be promoting these with a series of posts in their social media channels:

• YouTube.com/@societyofgenealogists

• Facebook.com/societyofgenealogists

• Instagram.com/sogenealogists

• X.com/SocGenealogists

• LinkedIn.com/company/society-of-genealogists

• BlueSky: sogorg.bsky.social

Projectkin Steps in All About That Place

With the added flexibility of a small organization, Projectkin will help with a series of live talks with seven of the ten speakers from our Pacific Edition of AATP in 2024. These are casual conversations in which the speakers revisit and update their talks with interactive audience chat using the fun interface of Substack Live. You can explore the schedule in your local time zone at Projectkin.org/aatp25-events. Below is a summary:

Karen de Bruyne | Thursday: Sept. 25th

“Atlantic-friendly” time 10 am/1/6 PM PT/ET/BST

• Karen de Bruyne is the genealogist at Not Just Any Family in the UK. She’s a volunteer host for the Society of Genealogists and events co-ordinator for London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society.

  Karen shared her resources and strategies for exploring the vast records of the British East India Company in pursuit of records for a particular Great Uncle Bill.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Sept 25th (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 5:00)

Allison DePrey Singleton | Friday: Sept. 26th

“Atlantic-friendly” time: 10 am/1/6 pm PT/ET/BST

• Allison DePrey Singleton is an accomplished genealogist and genealogy services manager at the Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Indiana, US.

  Allison shared the scale and scope of this extraordinary, world-class research gem and how librarians, records, and resources were available to researchers locally and online.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Sept 26th (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 28:05)

Annette Burke Lyttle | Saturday: Sept. 27th

“Atlantic-friendly” time: 10 am/1/6 pm PT/ET/BST

• Professional genealogist Annette Burke Lyttle, the Heritage Detective, is also a course coordinator for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the British Institute.

  Annette shared fantastic tips for Using Digitized Maps from the Library of Congress to Understand Your Place.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Sept 27th (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 1:11)

Anne Young | Sunday: Sept. 28/29th

“Pacific-friendly” time: 4/7 PT/ET, Sept 29th: 12 noon NZDT, 7/10 am AWST/AEDT

• Anne Young is a dedicated family history researcher with extensive experience researching and writing about her family history. You can find her work at anneyoungau.wordpress.com and on Substack at her publication Anne’s Family History.

  Anne shared the story of Jack and Cecil Young and a memorial in this small Australian community in maps, photographs, and narrative.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Sept 28/29th (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 1:48)

Diane Grant | Monday: Sept. 30th

“Pacific-friendly” time: 4/7 PT/ET, Sept 29th: 12 noon NZDT, 7/10 am AWST/AEDT

• Diane Grant of Diggy's Diaspora is qualified Genealogist and member of the RQG. She’ll be joining us to refresh her story about Bussa's rebellion and its connection to her family's ancestral home at Bayley's Plantation in Barbados. You can review a recording of her related talk for the series "The Door Between" here. In this live conversation, we'll discuss the story and some of her work since then.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Sept 30th (held on Substack Live)

Cynthia Boatright Raleigh | Wednesday: Oct. 1st

“Atlantic-friendly” time: 10 am/1/6 pm PT/ET/BST

• Author, genealogist, and RN, Cynthia Boatright Raleigh, publishes here on Substack at Genealogy Storytelling. Cynthia’s murder mysteries and other stories are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.

  In her 2024 talk, Cynthia shared the story of Eldorado, Illinois, a town in the southeastern portion of the state where her dad was born and lived until the mid-1950s.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Oct. 1st (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 2:18)

artlyn mali'o johnson | Wednesday: Oct. 2nd

“Pacific-friendly” time: 4/7 PT/ET, Sept 29th: 12 noon NZDT, 7/10 am AWST/AEDT

• Medicine maker, herbalist, and genealogist artlyn mali'o johnson publishes at Hush Harbor Rootworks and on Substack at Hush Harbor Rootworks.

  In her 2024 talk, artlyn shared stories about her grandmother's “Healing Garden” in Florida. As a storykeeper of her family, she shares the traditional folkways of her unique ancestral heritage with many lessons and an appreciation for place learned from her grandmother, Naynee.

  • Scheduled AATP25 talk on Oct. 1st (held on Substack Live)

    • Recording of her AATP24 talk (starting at ~ 1:38)

Jude Rhodes | Friday: Oct. 3rd

“Atlantic-friendly” time: 10 am/1/6 pm PT/ET/BST

• Professional genealogist Jude Rhodes of Yorkshire Family History has been a long-time Projectkin member and contributor. She’s also an advisor to the British Association for Local History (BALH) and is representing the organization during the #AATP25 celebration. Jude will joins us for a little “Wash-up Party” where we’ll summarize and close the series.

Recordings for all sessions in the 2025 Projectkin series will be available within a few hours of each program's conclusion at Projectkin.org/AATP25 and on the Society of Genealogists #AATP25 YouTube Playlist.

Collaborating with the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, the British Association for Local History (BALH), and Genealogy Stories has been an honor. I’ve since learned a great deal about One-Place Studies, and am thrilled to support the discipline in any way I can.

Here at Projectkin, we’re all about family history storytelling. The towns, villages, and homes we’ve lived in — some for a century or more — have stories to tell that reflect on the individuals and the community as a whole. I hope you’ll join me in the conversations these delightful speakers and recordings inspire. See you there.