Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 21 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) DNA Interest Group Meeting on Zoom on  Wednesday.  I reported on the Ancestry ProTools "Enhanced Shared Matches" tool, with props to the Ancestry blog post, Jim Bartlett's posts, and other bloggers' posts; the new RootsMagic 10 DNA matches tool; and attendee discussion of their experiences with the Enhanced Shared Matches tool.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) British Isles Interest Group meeting on Saturday, hosted by Colin Whitney.  He discussed "The Parish Chest," which included a great discussion of the Church of England over the centuries, showed examples, and resources to find these records. 

3)  Attended the Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS) program on Zoom.  Dana Palmer presented "Finding Records Using the Resources on FamilySearch."  Excellent speaker and presentation.

4)  Transcribed the 1702 Will of Ezekiel Bloomfield (1653-1703) of Woodbridge, New Jersey for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my great-grandaunt Mary Ann "Matie" (Smith) (Chenery) (Cramer) Morrill (1866-1922)  for the 52 Relatives theme.

6)  My famous cousin this past week was 7th Cousin 1x Removed Jo Raquel (Tejada) Welch (1940-2023), Famous American Actress.

7)  Had ChatGPT-4o create another AI poem about DNA research and had Suno.com write an AI song about it too - see Genealogy Poem and Song From Artificial Intelligence - "Helix Of Our Souls."

8)  Created narrative reports in RootsMagic 10 for a number of ancestors in New Jersey and added the reports to their Person Notes.  The reports include the info about each person, their spouse, their children, and any earlier research or event notes.  

9)  Changed my FamilyTreeDNA family tree links to my MyHeritage tree, and added notes to some of my known FamilyTreeDNA matches.  Investigated "In Common With" matches and trees of other DNA matches on FTDNA searching for common ancestors without much success.

10)  AncestryDNA now has 46,431 DNA matches (up 78 from 14 July) with 1971 "close" matches for me today, with no new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 2 new Matches, and added no lines of matches to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritageDNA now has 12,678 DNA matches (up 26 from 14 July) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

11)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 51,750  of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).  

12) 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 73,473 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 1), and 147,043 source citations (up 24).  TreeShared no new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  Resolved 252 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 23,614 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

13) Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was MyHeritage Adds Relationship Diagram for Large Family Trees with over 222 views.  Genea-Musings had about 121,000 page views last week and over 348,000 views for the past month.  

14)  Real life:  Visited Linda almost every day at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday.  Attended the Retired Engineers luncheon on Thursday.  Tried to walk at dusk on the block every day - I'm doing better at this!  Finished reading The Secret by Lee Child and Andrew Child.  My Padres went 2-1 this week and are 52-50 on the season - barely in playoff contention - they need a long winning streak and no more long losing streaks.

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