Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting on Wednesday with 33 attendees. Jay Fonkert presented "Official, But Wrong: Evaluating the Reliability of Records."
2) Edited and revised my "Top 10 Genealogy Search Tips" presentation for next week's Temecula Valley Genealogical Society's program metting.
3) Participated in Mondays With Myrt last Monday (26 August), and we discussed One-Place studies, land patents and cash entry purchases, Cite-builder, and having AI transcribe a will and compare it to a true transcription,
4) Transcribed the 1873 Indenture of Duncan Bell to James Abraham Kemp for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
5) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my Great-Grandaunt Cora A. Auble (1860-1876) of New Jersey and Indiana for the 52 Relatives theme.
6) My famous cousin this past week was 8th Cousin 1x Removed Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), the Famous Astronaut.
7) Requested Perplexity AI to create a poem about my father Frederick Walton Seaver and had Suno.com create a song. I posted them in "Frederick's Life Journey" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
8) Requested four AI tools to answer a question in Ask AI: "How I Can Use Autosomal DNA Ethnicity and DNA Match Results In My Genealogy Research?"
9) Searched FamilySearch Full-Text Search for land deeds of my 2nd great-grandfather, James Abraham Kemp in Norfolk county, Ontario - see Canadian Probate and Homestead (Land!) Records Are Searchable on FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
10) Created more short narrative reports in RootsMagic 10 for more ancestors in New England and New Jersey 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) AncestryDNA now has 46,799 DNA matches (up 65 from 26 August) with 1982 "close" matches for me today, with no new ThruLines. I added Notes to 3 new Matches, and added no new lines of a match to my RootsMagic tree. MyHeritageDNA now has 12,800 DNA matches (up 30 from 26 August) for me. I now have 22 Theories of Family Relativity and added one new line to RootsMasgic. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
12) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 51,919 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 46).
13) 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 73,608 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 14), and 147,176 source citations (up 48). TreeShared 204 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree. Resolved 180 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 31,075 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.
14) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 24 to 30 August 2024 with over 351 views. Genea-Musings had about 248,000 page views last week and over 982,000 views for the past month.
15) 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 reading Crashers by Dana Haynes. My Padres went 4-3 this week and are 78-61 on the season - and are in playoff contention. Watched San Diego State's football game - they beat Texas AM Commerce 45-14.
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