Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 17 November 2024).
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group Meeting on Wednesday. I reported on FamilySearch Full-Text Search additions, Kory Meerink's New York book, the WikiTree symposium, and Artificial Intelligence updates, plus my own research and blogging.
2) Watched several longer YouTube videos, including Ancestry® Pro Tools: Taking Your Family Tree to the Next Level by Crista Cowan, Ask the Experts with Roberta Estes by Diahan Southard, and How Fear and Bullying Are Silencing Genealogists - And How to Make This Stop by Devon Noel Lee. Also listened to Steve's and Mark's Episode 17 of The Family History AI Show podcast.
3) Participated in Mondays With Myrt on Monday, 11 November. The panel discussed Veterans Day remembrances, and panelists and watchers listed their veteran ancestors and relatives, etc.
4) Transcribed the 1886 Mortgage Discharge of London Land Company to James Kemp and Malissa Kemp for Land in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
9) My AncestryDNA now has 47,285 DNA matches (up 45 from 10 November) with 1998 "close" matches today, with 3 new ThruLines. I added Notes to 3 Matches, and added 3 new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,017 DNA matches (up 26 from 10 November) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
10) 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!
11) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 52,164 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 21). FamilySearch Records has 3,388 record collections (down 2). FamilySearch Images has 5.510 billion images (up about 15 million). Full-Text Search now has 1,397 collections (up 75) with 394.4 million pages (up 2.6 million) transcribed and sourced. Full-Text Search has 141,703 "+seaver" results (up 383).
12) Searched for more records of ancestral families on Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage, downloaded record images to my digital file folders, and added research notes, events and sources to RootsMagic profiles. My RootsMagic family tree now has 73,886 profiles (up 33 from last week) and 147,291 source citations (up 14).
14) 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. Called my brother Scott on his birthday and we tried to recall family stories - lots of laughs! Finished reading Guilty Wives by James Patterson and David Ellis. Watched the Chargers game on Sunday (they won, so now 7-3).
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