Education Resources

News concerning education materials from Soul Assets and other sources, including updates on presentation events and links to the presentations.


Common Hobbies over family generations
It’s magic when family hobbies span generations – it gives you a sense of belonging. In this article I’ll share a mini project idea that you can use with the Family Knowledge Process to present and honour family interests for generations to come. A majority of families can find interests spanning […]

Family Hobbies Across Generations


1950s 35mm slide film
My second post on Grampa’s slides months after my first post; yes I did say that dealing with 35mm slides takes time.   A lot has happened since May 2016 but I made time last week to scan the first box of Grampa’s 35mm slide collection. Using the 5 step […]

Grampa’s 1950s Time Capsule #2



Sorting by printrun keeps family events grouped by film batch and time
As I’ve aged I’ve discovered my mind delivers memories like a poker dealer, shuffling them around into different seasons and years. So when it comes to sorting out your own family photos I’ve found, if the photos not dated, I can shuffle the events better than any poker dealer on […]

Sort Photos by Print Run: Turn Them Over


Keeping family knowledge of family cars
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Your First Car, Remember?



Family Letters and Documents
Consider the time taken to write and post a letter; you’re keeping family knowledge when you group and scan letters.     Writing a letter can take 15 minutes or longer. If your letters dated and addressed then you have a  GPS time capsule in your hands. Look, I understand the […]

How to KEEP Letters Sent From Friends and Family


Remember When PCs Were Called Stand-alone?
Guess what PCs and laptops can still be stand-alone.   Here are my family knowledge process tips for keeping your memories on digital technology, they are: Buy two portable hard drives of at least One terabyte each to keep scanned images of your mementos – think of the drives as […]

Remember When PCs Were Called Stand-Alone?



Pinterest How to
If you’ve watched TV’s Antiques Roadshow, you’ll understand why I’ve included a separate category called Prized Possessions for the Family Knowledge Process.   In this article I’m sharing another quick method of saving your prized possessions knowledge using Pinterest. The benefits of using the Pinterest method and the Family Knowledge Process […]

How to Use Pinterest to KEEP Family Stories About Prized Possessions


Family Groups
The reason we came up with classifications systems was to give humanity easy ways to learn and pass on important knowledge.   I think knowledge of family events is by far the most enriching part of anyone’s education journey. And in a world of grouping and classification systems I found […]

Your Family Group and Journal Event Infographic



Digital Dreaming on Pinterest
You’ve gotta grab the reader’s attention with interesting headlines. Blogging advice 101.   I’m sorry I’m new to the world of blogging, but I couldn’t help myself with this headline. My year nine photography teacher commented on nice legs by saying “they had a great set of pins”. I think […]

What a Great Set of Pins!


HOME
“You took me to see this house at night, I couldn’t see a damn thing.” Her eyes held a glint of contempt and laughter.   “Yeah I know I know, but I was excited about a house being for sale in my favorite street.” The tone of his reply asked […]

Journal Event Code: HOME



Family Knowledge Transfer
When I think of succession planning for families what comes to mind is the movie: Little Fockers, starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. A Google search on “family succession planning” brought up “family business succession planning”. Oh for Pete’s sake! That’s not what I was after at all. When […]

Oh for Pete’s Sake, or oh for Family Keepsake


Family Mementos, photos, documents, and prized possessions. Over 3000 items ready to scanned.
Do you work in retail? Or maybe you’re a farmer or a nurse. Jobs that serve others have one important task that needs to be performed regularly, a good old fashioned stocktake. My first job was a cadet accountant at the State Railways of N.S.W and I remember the one task […]

Above all else, Take Stock



When it works treasure it
Bazinga! You’ve Gotta Love a Good Classification System I’ve created a new board on Pinterest and this education pin gives you the information on how to make your own Family Group Code. When this code is used in partnership with the six principles of outlined in Digital Dreaming you’ll be able […]

Grouping Systems – Love’m


Memo device ready with questions
I lost one parent in a car accident, and the other was given six months to live. Birth and death events are different for every family in the world. But remember – despite the difference in the events every person within a family can share a gift today. Take the […]

Shy? Ask family questions – you can do it



Family History Presentation
Presentation of the 5 step Family Knowledge Process to Dee Why Family History Group. Thank you to all those who attended the talk on the Family Knowledge Process outlined in Digital Dreaming. Dee Why History Presentation:Presentation on Microsoft OneDrive

Dee Why Family History Group


A knowing family sharing events
The Soul Assets education formula needed to create a knowing family has four items – but the formula won’t work at all without this first important item and that’s YOU. The answer to what is a knowing family has to start with you. After all its you that has the […]

What is the knowing family formula?



Richmond Villa Sydney
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PC FOR GENEALOGY ARCHIVING Saturday 25 July 2015:  Richmond Villa – 120 Kent Street 10.30am-12.30pm GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PC FOR GENEALOGY ARCHIVING Lost In in 2014 showed how storing your ‘stuff’ is a key issue in genealogy today. What do to […]

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