{"id":29054,"date":"2013-10-10T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29054"},"modified":"2013-10-10T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:25:05","slug":"kicking-up-the-past-fundraiser-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29054","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Up the Past Fundraiser Starts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicago-area teacher and genealogist announces a project to &#8220;crowd-fund&#8221; a television documentary based on submitted family history stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/kickingupthepast\/kicking-up-the-past\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kickin-Up-the-Past-250pw.jpg\" alt=\"Kickin-Up-the-Past-250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29055\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genealogist Madonna Davis announced that she has received approval of her creative project to  &#8220;crowd-fund&#8221; a television documentary based on submitted family history stories from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">Kickstarter.com<\/a>. The fund-raising project launched today, Thursday, October 10th and will run for 42 days seeking to raise enough funds to produce a quality genealogical journey of a submitted family story &#8211; the production will feature discovery, exploration, truth and dramatic historical reenactment!<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with how funding on Kickstarter works, projects are submitted for review and approval, if granted &#8212; a project goal is set and the project published for very limited time 30-50 days.  Project backers who support the project can select rewards that they wish to receive.  The important thing to note is that this is an &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; proposition &#8212; projects that fall short of their funding goal fail &#8212; and the money is returned to the donors.  Project creator Madonna Davis said,  &#8220;It is  vital this project be shared widely with supporters so we can reach our goal by the deadline&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in this history-making project can visit: >>>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.KickingUpthePast.com\">www.KickingUpthePast.com<\/a> for details on the project, launch and campaign updates, preview reward levels, and access additional information on how to participate in this history making event.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago-area teacher and genealogist announces a project to &#8220;crowd-fund&#8221; a television documentary based on submitted family history stories. Genealogist Madonna Davis announced that she has received approval of her creative project to &#8220;crowd-fund&#8221; a television documentary based on submitted family <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29054\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Kicking Up the Past Fundraiser Starts Today<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29057,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions\/29057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}