Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 20 October 2024

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 20 October 2024).  

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) DNA Interest Group Meeting on Wednesday with 17 in attendance.  We discussed the AncestryDNA ethnicity update, the AncestryDNA matches graphic interface, the Genealogy Assistant Chrome extension, the 23andMe debacle, and The Hollywood Strangler book.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles Interest Group meeting on Zoom on Saturday.  Colin Whitney presented "Researching the British isles with Ancestry and FamilySearch."

3)  Participated in Mondays With Myrt on Monday, 14 October.  We discussed FamilySearch Full-Text Search, the Evidence Explained QuickLessons, and making a list of them using AI, NARA documents, and The Hollywood Strangler book.

4)  Transcribed the 1894 Mortgage Discharge of  John Wyatt to James A. Kemp for Land in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandAunt Lucinda (Seaver) Bruce (1821-1899) of Massachusetts for the 52 Relatives theme.

6)  Requested six AI tools to answer two genealogy research questions, and posted answers in "What Are the Best 'Substitute Records' For Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates For a Person In the 19th Century?" and  "Suggest Areas an Intermediate Genealogist Could Expand To Better Perform Genealogy Research and Tell Family Stories."

7)  Requested six AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics my great-grandmother, Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952) and had Suno.com create a song.  I posted the poem created by Meta AI,  the song lyrics created by Perplexity AI, and the Suno song in  "Georgianna's Journey" -- - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.

8)  AncestryDNA now has 47,091 DNA matches (up 36 from 13 October) with 1991 "close" matches for me today, with no new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 3 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 12,952 DNA matches (up 25 from 13 October) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

9)  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.  Also continued editing place names in RootsMagic to reflect historical place names rather than current place names.  There are a lot more to do!

10)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 52,084 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).  

11)  Searched for more records of several ancestral families on Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage, and added research notes, events and sources to RootsMagic profiles.  My RootsMagic family tree now has 73,781 profiles (up 8 from last week) and 147,243 source citations (up 2).

12) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was "Frederick's Labors and Loves" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 300 views.  Genea-Musings had about 233,000 page views last week and over 1,060,000 views for the past month.  

13)  Real life events:  Visited Linda almost every day at her memory care facility and we played Uno.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday.  Attended the Rohr engineer's lunch on Thursday.  Took the car in for maintenance on Friday.  Finished reading The Hollywood Strangler by Nathan Dylan Goodwin and am still reading The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman.  

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