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 Wednesday with 23 attendees. I reported on the AI summarization feature on Full-Text Search, the MyHerita sunset of AI Record Finder, the new AI videos on Family Tree Webinars, a summary of tasks that AI can perform, and my own recent work with AI.
2) Created a relatively short presentation for CVGS on the RootsMagic genealogy software program for presentation this Tuesday at the CVGS Education Meeting.
3) Participated in Mondays With Myrt last Monday (12 August), and we discussed Goldie May, played Who's In My Line, Full-Text Search AI summarization, and SOB genealogists.
4) Transcribed the 1764 Will and 1766 Codicil of Samuel Wakeman (1693-1771) of Fairfield, Connecticut Colony for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
5) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my Great-Grandaunt Katherine "Kate" Auble (1851-1940) of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa for the 52 Relatives theme.
6) My famous cousin this past week was 10th Cousin Mickey Mantle (1931-1995), the Famous Baseball Player.
7) Requested MS CoPilot and Claude to create a poem about the sweep of American history and had Suno.com create a song. I posted them in "American Tapestry" - Genealogy Poems and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
8) Requested CoPilot, Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini to transcribe the 1775 will of Hepsebeth Hammant (1699-1791), a court clerk's copy. Only CoPilot and Claude would do it for free. I then compared my own transcription and those of CoPilot and Claude using AI to identify the differences in Comparison of a Handwritten Document Transcription With Two Artificial Intelligence Transcriptions.
9) Requested Claude AI to analyze an heirloom photograph and tell me what he (it? they?) saw. Had an extended chat about it. See Analyzing and Summarizing a Family Photograph Using Artificial Intelligence.
10) Created more short narrative reports in RootsMagic 10 for more ancestors in New England and added the reports to their Person Notes. The reports include the info about each person, their spouse, their children, research notes, and sources.
11) Continued the process of converting present-day place names (e.g., "Massachusetts, United States") in my RootsMagic database to historical place names (e.g. "Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America") for many profiles in colonial times. I did this for nother 200 profiles, and have tens of thousands of profiles left to do. I may never finish this task!
12) AncestryDNA now has 46,660 DNA matches (up 57 from 12 August) with 1978 "close" matches for me today, with two new ThruLines. I added Notes to 5 new Matches, and added two lines of a match to my RootsMagic tree. MyHeritageDNA now has 12,757 DNA matches (up 14 from 12 August) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
13) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 51,879 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 31).
14) 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 73,617 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 38), and 147,109 source citations (up 17). TreeShared 197 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree. Resolved 219 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 27,653 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.
15) Wrote 18 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Analyzing and Summarizing a Family Photograph Using Artificial Intelligence with over 238 views. Genea-Musings had about 228,000 page views last week and over 828,000 views for the past month.
16) Real life: Visited Linda almost every day at her memory care facility. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Tried to walk at dusk on the block every day. Went to my family practice doctor on Friday - blood pressure is lower! Linda's doctor visited her and she is fine. Finished reading Blindside by James Patterson and started reading Daniel Silva's The Collector. Watched some of the Olympics on TV. My Padres went 4-2 this week and are 70-55 on the season - and are in playoff contention.
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1 comment:
Randy, do you ever sleep?
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