From Paper To People Podcast
Hi all! I am inching my way toward new podcast episodes, but in the meantime, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. You’ll find all of my podcast episodes, with captioned for the hearing impaired. If you find a video that ISN’T captioned, let me know and you’ll get a surprise from my Zazzle shop! My … Read More “YouTube: Please Subscribe!” »
It’s July 4th, and I’m feeling reflective about what patriotism means to me. I’m discussing my Patriot ancestors, the 29 (or so) men who participated in, or supported, the American Revolution. What I’ve found is that patriotism isn’t as simple as it seems. Please join me. Hey everybody, and welcome to episode 406 of From … Read More “PODCAST Ep 406: My DAR Patriots, July 4th and Me” »
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I cannot believe my sheer luck in getting the opportunity to interview Michael W Twitty! Well, luck and a year of trying. The man is BUSY. In 2017, Michael published a watershed book called The Cooking Gene. It’s an amazing work of research – into folklore, into genealogy, into history, and deeper into his career of … Read More “PODCAST Ep 401: Promo – An Interview with Michael W Twitty” »
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This is the soundtrack of the YouTube video I released on June 10th, combined with some further explanations and discourse in reference to Reparational Genealogy. It contains challenges to White American genealogists to use social media platforms to start to publicize the facts about their slaveholding ancestors. For those White American genealogists whose ancestors didn’t … Read More “PODCAST Episode 307: The Conversation in Specifics – Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, Too (with transcript)” »
This is about what I’m doing right now in Reparational Genealogy, what you can do, and how you can help me help others. As white genealogists, we have a better opportunity than any in history to get honest about how we and our ancestors benefited from black chattel slavery in the United States. We have … Read More “Black Lives Matter in Genealogy, too – let’s do the work, my white genealogy family (YouTube video)” »
Are your kids bored with homeschooling yet? How about some good, old-fashioned Home Ec! Were you required to take Home Economics in order to graduate? I may be dating myself, but I was. We had to learn how to cook, and one of the best lessons was making candy. My mom had it even better … Read More “PODCAST Episode 305: Family Cookbook – Keep it Sweet for COVID (with recipes)” »
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Well, the landscape has changed a lot since my last episode! I hope that you are well, healthy and stocked and sheltering safely, not worrying about your kin. Today I have some comfort food recipes from my mother and grandmother. We’re starting with an apple cake with cream cheese frosting (because on sick days, we … Read More “PODCAST Episode 304: Family Cookbook – Comfort Foods for COVID (with recipes)” »
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This episode is both a video and the soundtrack of that video. Normally, my videos are for Patreon subscribers only, but I thought that this quick little how-to about verifying qualifying patriots for the Daughters of the American Revolution, cleaning up their profiles in Ancestry, and using pixlr.com to make each one a unique profile … Read More “PODCAST Episode 303 with VIDEO: George P Penn – A Little Weekend Hygienealogy (captioned in English)” »
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You can watch this video with captions in English, so it’s full accessible to English-speakers! It’s about a new feature of FamilySearch’s Family Tree app, called My Contributions. It allows you to track a number of metrics on a year-by-year basis. It’s helping me to see what I’ve done so far in the one-word family … Read More “VIDEO – How to use “My Contributions” in the FamilySearch Family Tree app (captioned in English)” »
