Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 10 November 2024

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 3 November 2024).  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Wednesday and reported on the Research Group, the DNA Interest Group and the Newsletter.  Wrote, edited and published the Family History Gazette monthly CVGS newsletter on Sunday.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society Program Meeting on Saturday.  Jennifer Roodzant presented two programs on "Rising from the Ashes: Strategies from Overcoming Record Loss" and "Untangling the Knot: Separating Men with the Same Name."

3)  Participated in Mondays With Myrt on Monday, 4 November.  The panel discussed the Genealogy Assistant with guest Dan Maloney, Scottish research and the 1939 UK Register on Findmypast.

4)  Transcribed the 1885 Land Deed of James A. Kemp and Melissa Kemp to Margaret Havens for Land in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandUncle Aaron Hildreth (1811-1884) of Townsend, Massachusetts for the 52 Relatives theme.

6)  Requested six free AI tools to answer a genealogy research question, and posted answers in Ask AI: "How Did They Use Animal Horns To Make Combs and Other Hair Ornaments?" and Ask AI: "Describe the Work of a Husbandman, a Yeoman, a Farmer, and a Gentleman In 1750-1800 Worcester County, Mass."

7)  Used Steve Little's custom ChatGPT Prompt for "Steve's Speculator" to identify, describe, analyze, summarize, hypothesize, extrapolate and speculate about a document, record or file in Stephen Little's "Steve's Speculator" AI Prompt and Analysis: The Ontario Kemp Bible Pages.

8)  Had ChatGPT4 transcribe an Italian marriage record and had Google Translate translate the record - see Transcribing and Translating an Italian Marriage Record Using ChatGPT4 and Google.

9)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my great-grandmother, Hattie Louisa (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920)  and had Suno.com create a song.  I posted the poem created by ChatGPT4 AI, the song lyrics created by Claude AI, and the Suno song MP4 in  "The Redhead Beauty of Lancaster Street" -- An Ancestor's Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.

10)  AncestryDNA now has 47,240 DNA matches (up 59 from 3 November) with 1996 "close" matches for me today, with one new ThruLine (which was wrong).  I added Notes to 5 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 12,991 DNA matches (up 1 from 3 November) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

11)  Created more short narrative reports in RootsMagic 10 for ancestors in New England and added the reports to their Person Notes.  The reports include the info about each person, their parents, their spouse(s), their children, short evemt notes, and sources.  Also continued editing place names in RootsMagic to reflect historical place names rather than current place names.  There are many more to do!  

12)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 52,143 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 13).  FamilySearch Records has 3,390 record collections (up 2).  FamilySearch Images has 5.495 billion images (up about 12 million).  Full-Text Search has 1,322 collections (up 103) with 391.8 million pages (up 5.8 million) transcribed and sourced.  Full-Text Search has 141,220 "+seaver" results (no change).  

13)  Searched for more records of several ancestral families on Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage, downloaded record images, and added research notes, events and sources to RootsMagic profiles.  My RootsMagic family tree now has 73,853 profiles (up 10 from last week) and 147,277 source citations (up 9).

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 "The Combmaker's Tale" -- A Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 325 views.  Genea-Musings had about 187,000 page views last week and over 977,000 views over the past month.  

15)  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.  Started thinking about Christmas and new Year tasks.  Finished reading The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, and started Guilty Wives by James Patterson and David Ellis.  Watched the  SDSU Aztecs game on Friday (they lost, so now 3-6) and the Chargers game on Sunday (they won, so now 6-3).

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