Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Wednesday. Reported on the CVGS Newsletter, Research Group and DNA Interest Group. Wrote, edited and published thye October 2024 edition of the "Family History Gazette" newsletter.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group on Saturday in a Zoom meeting with Colin Whitney. He presented "Ancestry 2024."
3) Transcribed the 1878 Mortgage Indenture of James to London Loan Company of Canada for Land in Fredericksburg, Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my Great-GrandUncle Alfred Edward Franklin Kemp (1880-1953) of Ontario and California for the 52 Relatives theme.
5) Wrote FamilySearch Full-Text Search Is a Genealogy Goldmine to highlight the steady increase in FamilySearch Full-Text Search transcribed and sourced images. The "Smith" results are over 25 million, and the "Seaver" results are over 129,000.
7) Requested five AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics my grandmother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962) and had Suno.com create a song. I posted the poem and song created by Meta AI in "Bessie's Symphony of Love" - A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
8) Requested five AI tools to answer a genealogy research question, and posted it in Ask AI: "What are the best methods and resources to find an ancestor's maiden surname when you know the names of her spouse(s) and children?"
8) Explored the new Google NotebookLM AI tool that can summarize and analyze a text document and produce a "Paper to Podcast" audio file. Wrote Google's NotebookLM Can Summarize Large Text Files Using AI - My First Notebook and Exploring the Google NotebookLM AI Tool - Chat and Notebook Guide (with Audio Overview) - Updated!. The link to the Audio Overview of my talk with Lisa Louise Cooke is in https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/10/exploring-google-notebooklm-ai-tool.html.
9) Collected all of my posts using Artificial Intelligence in a new Genea-Musings page - "Artificial intelligence Posts."
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. Also continued editing place names in RootsMagic to reflect historical place names rather than current place names. There are a lot more to do!
11) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 52,051 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 12).
12) 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 73,744 profiles (up 6 from last week) and 147,239 source citations (up 2).
13) AncestryDNA now has 47,016 DNA matches (up 43 from 29 September) with 1987 "close" matches for me today, with 1 new ThruLines. I added Notes to 1 new Match, and added 1 new lines of a match to my RootsMagic tree. MyHeritageDNA now has 12,906 DNA matches (up 27 from 29 September) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
14) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was FamilySearch Full-Text Search Is a Genealogy Goldmine with over 420 views. Genea-Musings had about 259,000 page views last week and over 1,022,000 views for the past month.
15) 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. Saw the dermatologist again on Thursday and she excised another basal cell carcinoma. Went to the church men's Bible study on Saturday morning. Started reading The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman. My Padres won two games against Atlanta, and split two games wiyj the Dodgers in the National League playoffs.
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