Following on from All About That Place 2025: Days 1 to 5, let’s now conclude our summary of #AATP25.
The second half of this year’s ‘Mini-AATP’ followed the pattern of the first, with a theme for each day matching those chosen for the full-scale 2024 event, and opportunities to look back at last year’s videos on those themes on the Society of Genealogists’ YouTube channel.
Project Kin continued live-streaming (and recording) interviews with some of its AATP Pacific Edition speakers from 2024 and concluded by chatting with Jude Rhodes on the subject of Learning About Local History – do take a look! We also continued releasing videos each day.
Our aim was to add at least one video per day to our public YouTube channel, tying in with the AATP themes. Given the short space of time we had to prepare and post videos this was quite a challenge, but thanks to our amazing members, and hard work by our wizard Webmaster, we did really well.
Our Day 8 video was not a new one, nor was it a short one like the others. With the kind permission of Kim Baldacchino we released the recording of her presentation at our 2021 conference, Connecting our way to a bigger picture, as part of our public YouTube offering (an excellent one to watch, or indeed watch again!).
For Day 9, we went off-topic – Steve Pickthall mixed old(ish) with new to create All about the Society for One-Place Studies. This combines two existing short talks (introducing one-place studies and the Society) with a gallery of OPS profile pages from our website. The music accompanying the slide show is Winding Lanes, a piece composed and recorded for us by one-placer (for Longstock) and musician David Barton.
Here are the daily themes for All About That Place 2025 Days 6 to 10, with links to the relevant SoG YouTube playlists from 2024 and to our own videos:
Day 6: Innovation
Day 7: Politics and Rights
Day 8: Tools
Day 9: Collections and Archives
Day 10: Sharing Your Findings
All of the Society videos released during #AATP25, and listed in the two parts of this blog post, can be found on a YouTube playlist created for the event.
Before wrapping up this review of ‘part 2’ of All About That Place 2025, I want to return to the last new video added our playlist – Sharing your findings. In her look at the various options for sharing the wonders of our one-place studies, Liz Craig includes a summary of the ways in which the Society for One-Place Studies can help members. Hopefully you will already be aware of most of them. One, however, stands out as being a very recent addition to the list and may be new to you: video blogging, or vlogging!
We have been issuing prompts for blogging and posting on social media about one-place studies since 2021. If you are interested in recording short videos about your study (the place, your methodology, or both), check out our library of prompts for ideas and inspiration on topics to vlog about in any given month. Prompts for November, for example, began with ‘In Wartime’ (#OnePlaceInWartime) in 2021, followed by Memorials, Heraldry, Charities, and – in November 2025 – Disabilities.
So, #AATP25 may have been a scaled down version of the full event, with an emphasis on what has gone before, but it has also generated new material – and ideas for ongoing one-place study activity.
All About That Place will return in its normal format next year, with the Society of Genealogists promising that it will be even bigger and better. We are already looking forward to #AATP26!
Steve Jackson
Social Media Coordinator and One-Placer for Waters Upton, Fawsley and Marton Hall
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