Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 22 September 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 20 attendees.  I reported on the ECGG, 23and Me Lawsuit, Updated MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity, several new DNA videos, and my own AI questions concerning DNA matches.

2)  Attended the CVGS Education Meeting on Tuesday led by Karen Smith - we watched a video and discussed where and how to build a family tree.

3)  Attended most of the San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles Interest Group meeting with Colin Whitney, who reviewed several new and different UK/Ireland databases.

4)  Participated in Mondays With Myrt last Monday (16 September), and we discussed Storytelling, played Who's in my Line, and using AI to find a person's grandmother.

5)  Posted my recent interview with Lisa Louise Cooke on the Family Tree Magazine podcast in My Interview With Lisa Louise Cooke and Family Tree Magazine.

6)  Transcribed the 1877 Mortgage Indenture of  James A. and Melissa Kemp to Canada Landed Credit Company for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

7)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my Great-Grandaunt Melvina Marylis (Kemp) Trembley (1866-1929) of Ontario  for the 52 Relatives theme.

8)  Requested ChatGPT-4o AI to create a poem about my great-grandmother, Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944),  and had Suno.com create a song.  I posted them in "Della's Life Journey" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.

9)  Requested four AI tools to answer research questions in Ask AI: "What Information Would You Provide To Novice Genealogists To Help Build Their Family Tree?" and Ask AI: "What Can You Tell Me About the Life and Family of Gregory Stone (1592-1672)?"

10)  Found another AI agent - GenSpark -  to create narratives in Another Artificial Intelligence Agent - GenSpark: I Asked "What is the future of genealogy and family history research?"

11)  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.  

12)  Continued editing place names in RootsMagic (and then to Ancestry Member Tree) to reflect historical place names rather than current place names.  There are a lot more to do!

13)  AncestryDNA now has 46,945 DNA matches (up 35 from 16 September) with 1986 "close" matches for me today, with 2 new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 2 new Matches, and added 2 new lines of a  match to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritageDNA now has 12,847 DNA matches (up 1 from 16 September) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

14)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 51,984  of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 22).  

15) 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 73,689 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 17), and 147,226 source citations (up 6).    TreeShared 149 new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  Resolved 179 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 32,803 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

16) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was "Emily's Loves" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 280 views.  Genea-Musings had about 204,000 page views last week and over 985,000 views for the past month.  

17)  Real life:  Visited Linda almost every day at her memory care facility and we played Uno.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday.  Finished reading Hunting Time by Jeffrey Deaver and am reading The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver.  My Padres went 5-1 this week and are 90-66 on the season - and are in playoff contention.  Watched the Chargers game and they lost to the Steelers 20-10 on Sunday.

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