Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 14 July 2024

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.  

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group Meeting on Zoom on  Wednesday.  I reported on the RootsMagic 10, Ancestry ProTools, using task lists in RootsMagic, using ChatGPT-4o to create a research plan and poems, also Suno.com to create songs, and then attendees discussed their research over the past month.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) program meeting on Saturday, with Thomas MacEntee the speaker on "The 15 Habits of Highly Frugal Genealogists" and "AI and Genealogy: Trouble Ahead??"

3)  Watched two Family Tree Webinar videos - "10 Reasons Why MyHeritage is a Genealogist’s Best Friend" by Melissa Barker, and "Where Fact Meets Fiction: behind the scenes of a genealogical crime mystery" by Nathan Dylan Goodwin.

4)  Transcribed the 1710 Property Distribution of John Wakeman (1660-1709) of Fairfield, Connecticut for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my great-granduncle Devier David Smith (1863-1920) for the 52 Relatives theme.

6)  My famous cousin this past week was 8th Cousin 1x Removed William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), the American Orator and Politician.

7)  Had ChatGPT-4o create another AI poem about genealogy research and Suno.com write an AI song about it too - see Another Genealogy Poem and Song From Artificial intelligence - FAMILY ROOTS."

8)  AncestryDNA now has 46,353 DNA matches (up 34 from 7 July) with 1969 "close" matches for me today, with 3 new ThruLines (1 was wrong).  I added Notes to 5 new Matches, and added 4 lines of matches to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritageDNA now has 12,652 DNA matches (up 22 from 30 June) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

9)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 51,746  of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 20).  

10) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 73,472 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 42), and 147,019 source citations (up 19).  TreeShared 151 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  Resolved 180 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 22,943 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

11) Wrote 16 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Favorite Genealogy-Related YouTube Channels with over 127 views.  Genea-Musings had about 104,000 page views last week and over 270,000 views for the past month.  

12)  Real life:  Visited Linda every day at her memory care facility.  Finished Desert Star by Michael Connelly and started The Secret by Lee Child and andrew Child.  My Padres went 1-4 this week and are 50-49 on the season - barely in playoff contention.

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