Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 23 to 29 July 2026

  Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight some of the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across my desktop since the last issue.




1) Upcoming Conferences and Institutes:

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view seminars, conferences and institutes.

*  FEEFHS Annual Conference ($$, In-person, in Salt Lake City) -- 5 to 7 August 2026.

*  Pennsylvania's Genealogy Event "PaGE" 2026 Conference ($$, Virtual) -- 6 to 8 August 2026.

*  5th Annual East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference ($$, In-person + Recordings, Boston, Mass.) -- 21 to 23 August 2026.

*  2026 New York State Family History Conference ($$, In-person, Virtual, New York City) -- 18 to19 September 2026.

*  2026 Heritage Books Genealogical Conference & Cruise with Angie Bush, Blaine Bettinger, and Craig Scott ($$, In-person, Cruise from Miami, Florida) -- 6 to 17 November 2026.

2 ) Upcoming Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view seminars, webinars and classes.

* FamilySearch MonthlyWebinars (Free)

* RootsTech 2019-2026 On-Demand Sessions (Free) 

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 29 July, 11 a.m.:  Mastering Mid-Atlantic Research: Resources and Methodologies for ICAPGen Accreditation by Alice Childs.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 5 August, 12 a.m.:  Why Did They Leave? Motivations for leaving 19th Century Britain by Jenny Joyce.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 5 August, 7:15 a.m.:  Introduction to New Hampshire Genealogy by Robert Weir.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 5 August, 8:30 a.m.: Uncovering Pre-1900 New England Church Records by Bonnie Wade Mucia.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 5 August, 9:45 a.m.: Mining Your Ancestry: Coal Mining Records at Federal & State Levels by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Wednesday, 5 August, 11 a.m.:  Forgotten Records: U.S. Treasury Records by Craig R. Scott.

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar -- Friday, 7 August, 11 a.m.:  Essential Skills for New Genealogists 4 of 12: Read All About It! Newspapers, Periodicals by Dave Mc Donald.

3) Recent Podcasts:

* Ancestors and Algorithms:  Ep. 48: Also Known As - French Canadian Genealogy, Quebec Dit Names & AI Tools




*  Hittin' the Bricks With Kathleen:  Books, Blogs and B.S. (Better Sources)


4) Recent YouTube Videos:








*  Denyse Allen • Chronicle Makers:  The Records Are Not the Reason You Don't Have a Story

*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings - Family History Hound:  Was He Guilty or Framed






*  Jennifer Holik  - Ancestral Souls Wisdom School: New Series! What Genealogists Need to Know about WWI and WWII Research
*  Jennifer Holik  - Ancestral Souls Wisdom School: Verify Newspapers, Family Stories, and Online Resources with military records.


*  Randy Seaver, Geneaholic:  Randy's Genealogy Week Ending 26 July 2026


*  Trace Your New England Roots:  Genealogy Communities Are Sometimes Broken | Here's Why



5) Did you miss the last post in this series -- Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 16 to 22 July 2026?

Read past Genealogy Education Bytes here.

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NOTE: If I missed an upcoming conference or webinar, or a useful podcast or video, in this time period, please let me know in a comment or an email.

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Life Memoir of Charles Auble (1849-1916) Told To His Daughter In Early 1916 In San Diego

I wrote an AI-assisted ABC biography for  my great-grandfather Charles Auble in ABC Biography of #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916) of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and California based on my genealogical research over 38 years. 

I wondered what Charles Auble might have told his daughter Emily in a life memoir in 1916.

(AI Google NotebookLM Infographic for Charles Auble's life memoir)

1)  I requested Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 to "Please write a life memoir for Charles Auble based on the attached biography, as he might tell his daughter in early 1916."

2)  The AI Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 memoir (edited for accuracy and completeness) is: 

A Father's Words to His Daughter

A Memoir of Charles Auble, as He Might Have Told It to Emily

Emily, come sit with your old father a while. My side aches something fierce today, and the doctor says I should rest, but resting gives a man too much time to think. And when I think, I think about you, and about the years that brought us here—me in this chair, you nearly seventeen and grown into such a fine young woman.

I don't know how much I've ever told you about where I came from. A man gets busy with living and forgets sometimes to look back and share it. So let me tell you now, while I have the chance.

Where I Began

I was born on the last day of October in 1849, in Newark, New Jersey. Your grandfather David was a shoemaker there—had his own little shop, made a decent living with his hands the way I later made mine with a paintbrush. Your grandmother Sarah kept our house and raised us children, and there were plenty of us. I had an older brother, William, and an older sister, Fannie, and then after me came Kate, and Anna, and Cora. Six of us Auble children, all told, growing up in that house in Newark.

I don't remember so much of those very early years—what child remembers being one or two years old? But I remember being older, maybe ten or eleven, walking those Newark streets, the smell of the leather from your grandfather's shop, the sound of the city around us. Newark was a fine place to be a boy, though I didn't know any different at the time. A boy never does.

The Move West

When I was about fifteen, your grandfather decided we should move to Indiana—to Terre Haute, out in Vigo County. This was 1864, if you can believe it, right in the thick of the war between the states. I remember the day we left Newark like it was yesterday, though it's been over fifty years now. Leaving everything I'd known, saying goodbye to friends I thought I'd never see again—and I never did, not most of them.

Terre Haute was different from Newark—smaller, newer, full of its own kind of promise. Your grandfather kept at his shoemaking there, and the rest of us found our way. That's where I learned to be a painter, Emily. Not the fine art kind, mind you, though I always did have a good eye for color and line. House painting—decorating, they called it later on, when I got fancier about naming my trade. I learned to mix colors properly, to lay a clean line, to make a plain wall into something a family could be proud of.

I was young when I started that trade—maybe nineteen or twenty—and by the time the 1870 census man came round, I was already calling myself a painter by occupation. Your grandfather's family, we all stayed together in Terre Haute for years. I lived with my parents even into my thirties, if you can believe such a thing. Different times, then. A young man wasn't in such a hurry to strike out alone.

Chicago and a New Start

But eventually, Emily, a man gets restless. I watched my sisters stay near home, watched the years pass in that same house on Chestnut Street, and something in me wanted more. So sometime before 1888—I was already approaching forty by then, though I wasn't always so honest about that number, as you well know—I picked myself up and moved to Chicago.

That was a big city, my girl. Bigger than anything I'd known. I had to make my own way there, find my own lodging, prove myself in my trade all over again. I lived at different addresses over the years—on Madison Street, then Monroe Street, moving as my circumstances changed. I joined the Painters' Union there, and that brotherhood meant something to me. Still does. Those men stood by each other, helped each other find work, looked out for each other's families. That's part of why the union has always mattered so much to me, Emily. A man alone is just a man. But men together, watching out for one another—that's a kind of family too.

Meeting Your Mother

Now here's the best part of my story, and I want you to hear it proper, because your mother deserves to have this told right.

I met Georgianna Kemp—your mother, though we always called her Georgia—while I was in Chicago. She'd come down from Ontario, up in Canada, a few years before to stay with her married sister, and she was unlike anyone I'd ever known. Bright, and quick, and not the least bit impressed by an old bachelor's clumsy attempts at charm.

I was already what most folks would call too old to be courting—I won't tell you my exact age at the time, some things a man keeps to himself even with his own daughter—but I set my mind to winning her over anyway. I wrote her poems, Emily. Terrible poems, probably, though she was kind enough never to say so. I brought her flowers whenever I could afford them. I made a nuisance of myself, I expect, but eventually it worked.

We were married on the nineteenth of June, in 1898, up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Methodist ceremony, proper witnesses, the whole affair done right. And Emily, I want you to know—marrying your mother is the best thing I ever did in this life. Whatever else I've managed or failed to manage, that decision I got exactly right.

Your Arrival

And then, less than fourteen months after we married, you came along. August of 1899, in Chicago. My daughter. My only child.

I was no longer a young man when you were born, Emily—though you didn't know that at the time, and I confess I did my best to keep it that way for longer than I probably should have. But holding you those first few days, I understood something I hadn't before. A man can build things with his hands his whole life—can paint a hundred houses, decorate a hundred rooms—but nothing he builds matters as much as the family he makes. You were the finest thing I ever helped create, and I don't just mean that as a father's sentiment. I mean it as plain truth.

We lived at various places in Chicago while you were growing—on West Adams Street when you were just a baby, then later on 76th Street. Your uncle Franklin Kemp lived with us for a time too, when he was young and finding his own way, same as I once had to.

Coming to San Diego

When you were about twelve, we made the decision to come out here to San Diego. Your mother's brothers, James and Franklin, had already settled here, and I think we both wanted to be nearer to family, and perhaps I wanted a change of scenery in my later years, the way I'd wanted one when I left Terre Haute for Chicago all those years before.

This city has been good to us, Emily. The work has been steady—there's always a house that needs painting, a room that needs decorating, especially in a city growing as fast as San Diego. I set up my studio right in the basement of our house on 14th Street, and I've taken real pride in the work I've done here. When you see that sign out front—"Painting" and "Decorating"—that's not just advertising, Emily. That's fifty years of learning a trade and doing it well.

What I Want You to Know

I won't pretend to you that I've been a perfect man, Emily. I've had my faults—you're old enough now to have seen some of them yourself. I've enjoyed my drink more than I probably should have, more than was always good for your mother's peace of mind or my own health. I've been vain about my age in ways that seem foolish to me now, lying about the years to your mother when I should have simply trusted her to love me as I was. Pride is a strange thing—it makes a man do foolish things to protect an image that doesn't matter nearly as much as he thinks it does.

But I've tried to be a good husband to your mother, and a good father to you. I've tried to work hard and do honest work with my hands. I've tried to be a good brother to the men in my union, standing with them the way they've stood with me.

If I could give you anything, Emily, it would be this: work hard at whatever trade or calling you find, whether that's a trade like mine or something entirely different, as I know the world is changing faster than an old man like me can keep track of. Love the people in your life without holding back, the way I've tried to love your mother and you, even with all my faults. And don't be afraid to leave what's familiar when something in you says it's time for a new chapter—I left Newark, then Terre Haute, then Chicago, and each time it felt like losing something, but each time it also led me somewhere I needed to be. Eventually, it led me to San Diego, to this house, to you.

You're growing into such a fine young woman, Emily. Smart, and capable, and kind—kinder than your old father deserves, probably, given how much I've had to be forgiven for over the years. Whatever happens to me, whatever the future holds, I want you to know that watching you grow up has been the great privilege of my life. Better than any house I ever painted, any wall I ever decorated. You are my finest work, and I mean that with everything in me.

Take care of your mother, whatever comes. She's stronger than either of us give her credit for, I think, and she loves you more than life itself. The two of you together—well, there's nothing you can't face, as long as you have each other.

And know this, Emily: wherever I am, whatever comes next for this old painter, I'll always be proud of you. Always.

Now, help your old father up from this chair, would you? This talking has tired me out more than a full day's painting used to. But I'm glad we had this time together, my girl. Gladder than you know.

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Note: Charles Auble passed away on March 23, 1916, several months after suffering a fall. This imagined memoir represents one way of envisioning what he might have shared with his daughter Emily, drawing on the documented facts of his life while imagining the reflective, personal voice he might have used to pass on his story before his death. The actual conversations between Charles and Emily, if any such reflective conversations took place, are not recorded in the historical record.

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3)  The Video Overview of Charles Auble's life memoir, created by the Google NotebookLM AI tool, is below and on my YouTube channel:       

4)  I edited the Claude memoir text to correct minor inconsistencies and errors. Every large language model (LLM) AI tool writes descriptive text much better than I can write. The AI tools are very perceptive, insightful and inspiring, creating engaging text in seconds, including local and national historical events and social history detail when requested.

5)  This is historical fiction, based on my own genealogical research and family records. It is what Charles Auble might have told his daughter in 1916.  

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Copyright (c) 2026, Randall J. Seaver

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Grandparents Betty and Fred Seaver With Our Daughters in 1980 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #926

  This is a priceless (to me) image in my computer file folders from the Seaver family collection:


This photograph includes my father, Frederick W, Seaver (age 68), my mother, Betty V. (Carringer) Seaver (age 61), my daughters Lori (age 6) and Tami (age 3), and two persons in the background (probably my brother Stan and his girlfriend).  The photograph was taken in the summer of 1980 at my brother Stan's home in Santee, California (a suburb of San Diego).

I have only a few photographs of my daughters with both of their paternal grandparents.  

This event is part of my family history!!

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 22 to 28 July 2026

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news  items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    


1)  Genealogy and Family History News Articles:







*  How to Preserve Old Maps [Family Tree Magazine]


2)  DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:



*  Family Tree Magazine: August 2026 [Anglo-Celtic Connections]

4)  Genealogy Software/Mobile Apps


*  Ancestor Map Builder 2.0 [Jason Duncan]

5)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:







6)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 15 to 21 July 2026.


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Ask AI: 20 Record Types That Genealogists Should Search For

I wondered what records I might be missing out on in my research, so I decided to ask the OpenAI ChatGPT5 AI tool.  My prompt was:  "Please define and provide a description of 20 record types that every genealogist should search for when researching each ancestor or relative."

(Gemini Notebook Infographic - 20 record types for genealogists)

The OpenAI ChatGPT5 response was:

No single ancestor will appear in every type of record, but experienced genealogists develop a habit of searching for the same broad set of records for each person. Even a record that is not found can be valuable evidence, helping establish where a person was not living or suggesting that records were lost or never created.

The Record Types:

Here are 20 of the most important record types that every genealogist should search for.

1. Birth Records -- Birth certificates, registrations, delayed birth records, and birth returns often provide the person's full name, date and place of birth, parents' names, occupations, residence, and informant. These are among the strongest records for establishing parent-child relationships.

2. Baptism or Christening Records -- Church records may predate civil registration and often identify parents, sponsors (who may be relatives), parish of residence, and occasionally grandparents. Particularly valuable before civil birth records existed.
3. Marriage Records -- Marriage licenses, certificates, bonds, banns, and church registers identify spouses, ages, residences, occupations, parents, previous marriages, witnesses, and officiants. Witnesses frequently reveal extended family members.

4. Divorce Records -- Divorce petitions, decrees, and court files can reveal marriage details, children, residences, financial circumstances, and family disputes. These often contain extensive testimony unavailable elsewhere.

5. Death Records -- Death certificates provide death date and place, cause of death, burial information, parents' names, spouse, occupation, residence, and informant. Accuracy depends upon the informant's knowledge.

6. Burial, Cemetery, and Funeral Records -- Gravestones, cemetery registers, plot purchases, sexton records, and funeral home files often identify family members buried together, military service, religious affiliation, and next of kin.

7. Census Records -- Population schedules provide names, ages, occupations, birthplaces, immigration status, relationships, education, and property ownership. Comparing multiple census years documents family movement and changes over time.

8. Probate Records -- Wills, estate administrations, inventories, guardianships, and distributions identify heirs, spouses, children, siblings, property, and family relationships. Probate records often provide the strongest direct evidence of family connections.

9. Land and Property Records -- Deeds, mortgages, land patents, grants, and tax maps document residence, property ownership, neighbors, migration, and family transfers. Family members often bought or sold land to one another.

10. Tax Records -- Annual tax rolls can place an ancestor in a location between census years, estimate wealth, identify land ownership, and help distinguish men of the same name. They are especially valuable where census records are missing.

11. Military Records -- Draft registrations, service records, pension files, bounty land applications, and discharge papers may include birth information, family members, physical descriptions, residences, and affidavits from relatives and neighbors.

12. Immigration and Naturalization Records -- Passenger lists, border crossings, passport applications, declarations of intention, and naturalization petitions document migration, birthplace, family members, previous residence, and arrival information.

13. City Directories -- Published annually in many cities, directories identify residences, occupations, employers, spouses, and business advertisements. They help track families between census years and reveal when individuals moved or died.

14. Newspapers -- Obituaries, marriage announcements, birth notices, legal notices, business advertisements, social columns, and local news often provide details unavailable in official records and add personality to an ancestor's life story.

15. Church Records -- Membership rolls, confirmations, communions, marriages, funerals, transfers, and meeting minutes often identify families over many years and reveal religious affiliations and community involvement.

16. School Records -- Attendance registers, report cards, yearbooks, alumni directories, commencement programs, and school newspapers document education, residences, extracurricular activities, and photographs.

17. Court Records -- Civil lawsuits, criminal proceedings, guardianships, adoptions, apprenticeships, and other court actions often contain detailed testimony, relationships, financial information, and residence data.

18. Employment and Occupational Records -- Personnel files, company newsletters, pension records, union records, professional licenses, and business directories document careers, promotions, addresses, education, and retirement.

19. Family Records -- Family Bibles, letters, diaries, journals, photographs, scrapbooks, autograph books, memoirs, recipe books, and oral histories provide personal details, relationships, traditions, and events often found nowhere else.

20. Published Genealogies and Local Histories -- County histories, town histories, family genealogies, biographical compilations, and historical society publications can provide clues, context, and references to original sources. They should always be verified with primary records.

Why Search All Twenty?

Every record type answers different genealogical questions:

  • Who? Birth, baptism, marriage, probate, and family records identify relationships.

  • When? Vital records, census schedules, and newspapers establish timelines.

  • Where? Land, tax, census, city directories, and church records document residences and migration.

  • What? Military, employment, school, and court records reveal occupations, education, and life events.

  • Why? Probate, divorce, newspapers, court records, and personal papers explain the circumstances behind family decisions and significant events.

A Practical Research Strategy

For every direct ancestor or close relative, create a checklist of these twenty record categories. As you research each person, record:

  • Whether you searched for each record type.

  • Where you searched (repositories and websites).

  • What you found—or did not find.

  • The source citation for every record examined.

  • Ideas for future research when records are missing.

Summary

This systematic approach helps ensure that no major source category is overlooked. It also aligns well with the principles of the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) by encouraging a reasonably exhaustive search, careful source citation, thorough analysis, and soundly reasoned conclusions. For genealogists working on complex family lines, this checklist often becomes the backbone of an effective research log and greatly increases the likelihood of discovering new evidence.

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After I wrote and edited the list above, I asked ChatGPT5 to describe more record types, and it gave me 40 more, including:

21. Coroner's Records -- Explain accidental, suspicious, or unexpected deaths.

22. Hospital Records -- May document illnesses, births, surgeries, and residences.

23. Asylum Records -- Mental health institutions often kept extensive admission records.

24. Poorhouse and Almshouse Records -- Identify indigent family members and their circumstances.

25. Orphanage Records -- Document children placed in institutions or foster care.

26. Adoption Records -- May identify birth families where legally available.

27. Guardianship Records -- Identify minor children and family relationships after a parent's death.

28. Apprenticeship Records -- Name parents, masters, occupations, and contract terms.

29. Indentured Servant Contracts -- Trace early immigrants and labor arrangements.

30. Prison Records -- Include photographs, physical descriptions, and family contacts.

31. Coroner's Inquests -- Provide witness testimony and detailed accounts of deaths.

32. Voter Registration Lists -- Place adults at specific locations between censuses.

33. Poll Tax Lists -- Identify eligible voters and taxpayers.

34. Jury Lists -- Demonstrate citizenship and residence.

35. Court Minute Books -- Reveal lawsuits, licenses, debts, and civic activities.

36. Chancery Records -- Often preserve multi-generational inheritance disputes.

37. Bankruptcy Records -- Document financial hardship and assets.

38. Business Licenses -- Identify merchants, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs.

39. Professional Licenses -- Physicians, lawyers, teachers, and other professionals.

40. Occupational Guild Records -- Valuable in many European countries.

41. Union Membership Records -- Employment history and pension information.

42. Pension Records (Civilian) -- Railroad, government, and company retirement records.

43. Social Security Applications -- Parents, birthplaces, employment, and name changes.

44. Veterans Administration Records -- Military-related medical and benefit records.

45. Passport Applications -- Birth details, photographs, and foreign travel.

46. Consular Records -- Americans living overseas.

47. Alien Registration Records -- Non-citizens living in the United States.

48. Homestead Records -- Land claims and improvements.

49. Mining Claims -- Western ancestors involved in mining.

50. Timber and Grazing Permits -- Federal land use records.

51. Railroad Employment Records -- One of the largest employers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

52. Maritime Records -- Merchant seamen, fishermen, and ship officers.

53. Ship Crew Lists -- Employment aboard vessels.

54. Fishing Licenses -- Coastal communities.

55. Plantation Records Enslaved persons, laborers, and landowners.

56. Plantation Journals -- Daily operations and family references.

57. Slave Schedules -- Federal census schedules before emancipation.

58. Freedmen's Bureau Records -- Essential for African American research after the Civil War.

59. Freedman's Bank Records -- Often identify multiple generations of families.

60. Manumission Records -- Documentation of emancipation before the Civil War.

For experienced researchers like you, maintaining a research checklist of 60–100 record types can be invaluable. As you work through each ancestor in your RootsMagic database, you can systematically record which categories have been searched, where they were searched, what was found, and what remains to be investigated. This kind of comprehensive checklist supports thorough, repeatable research and is an excellent foundation for meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard while ensuring no major source category is overlooked.

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A Google Gemini Notebook Video Overview of the Top 20 is below and on my YouTube channel:

That is a fairly succinct Top 20 list and set of descriptions.  I have pursued most of those records but not school records, court records, or employment records to any degree.  

The list of 40 more record types is more esoteric and specialized. I've used some of them, like Social Security Applications, Voter Registrations, Passport Applications, and Homestead records, mainly because they appear in Record Hints and Searches.

What other record types can you think of? 

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Links to my blog posts about using Artificial Intelligence are on my Randy's AI and Genealogy page.  Links to AI information and articles about Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy by other genealogists are on my AI and Genealogy Compendium page.

Copyright (c) 2026, Randall J. Seaver


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