Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 25 August 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 Wednesday with 23 attendees.  I reported on the Ask Ancestry AI feature, the DNA Academy Webinar Series, MyHeritage's collaboration with FamilyTreeDNA, anmd Roberta Estes FamilyTreeDNA book, plus reviewing MyHeritage DNA Tols.  The dscussion question was "What DNA challenges have you worked on this summer?"

2)  Made a 30 minute presentation for the CVGS Education Meeting on Tuesday on the RootsMagic genealogy software program.  Also answered questions about name, date and place standards for family tree data entry.

3)  Participated in Mondays With Myrt last Monday (19 August), and we discussed Goldie May, NARA in New York City closing, mindmapping with Scapple, and more.

4)  Transcribed the 1668 Will of John Fisher (1634-1668) of Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my Great-Grandaunt Anna Mattison (Auble) Buntin (1859-1917) of New Jersey, Indiana, and Illinois for the 52 Relatives theme.

6)  My famous cousin this past week was 4th Cousin 8x Removed Roger Sherman (1721-1793), the Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

7)  Requested Perplexity AI to create a poem about my grnadfather Lyle Carringer and had Suno.com create a song.  I posted them in "Lyle's San Diego Dreams" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.

8)  Created 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.  Wrote about it in Improving My Family Tree Profiles - Historical Place Names and Narrative Sketches.

9)  AncestryDNA now has 46,734 DNA matches (up 74 from 19 August) with 1982 "close" matches for me today, with no new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 10 new Matches, and added no new lines of a  match to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritageDNA now has 12,770 DNA matches (up 13 from 19 August) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

10)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 51,873  of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).  

11)  Worked on the Ancestry ProTools Tree Checker to find duplicate persons in my Ancestry Member Tree and merged about 70 persons.  Some of them were duplicates in RootsMagic also, so I merged them too.  

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 73,594 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (down 23), and 147,128 source citations (up 19).    TreeShared  258 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  Resolved 264 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 30,109 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

13) Wrote 16 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Comparison of a Handwritten Document Transcription With Two Artificial Intelligence Transcriptions with over 241 views.  Genea-Musings had about 209,000 page views last week and over 913,000 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. Tried to walk at dusk on the block every day.   Started and finished reading Daniel Silva's The Collector. My Padres went 4-3 this week and are 74-58 on the season - and are in playoff contention.

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