Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Write a 100-Word Life Sketch of One of Your 2X Great-Grandparents

Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:

 

It's Saturday Night Again - 

Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)   Today's challenge is to "Write a 100-word life sketch of one of your 2X great-grandparents." [NOTE: or another of your ancestors!]

2)  Show us your 100-word life sketch on your own blog post, in a comment here, or on your Facebook page.  Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.

 [thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!] 

Here's mine:

I chose my second great-grandmother, Abigail A. "Abbie" (Vaux) Smith (1844-1931).  I copied my Person Notes in RootsMagic and inserted it in Meta AI along with a Prompt of "Please write a 100-word life story for this person" and it did:

Abigail A. Vaux Smith was born on October 28, 1844, in Aurora, New York, to Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux. She married Devier J. Smith in 1861 in Wisconsin, and they had five children. The family moved frequently, residing in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. After her husband's death in 1894, Abbie moved to San Diego, California, where she lived with her daughter Della's family. Abbie spent her later years in San Diego, owning property and living with her family until her death on September 11, 1931, at age 86, due to breast cancer complications.

I got cheated.  It's only 95 words!  I could add a sentence like "She helped around the home."  Perhaps Meta AI is thinking about the "spoken word" where year and age numbers add more words.  In that case, it's 104 words and I don't need the extra sentence!  Mybe it considers the word count approximate?

Then I got curious - you can ask the AI chatbots almost anything and they will respond.  So I asked for a 200 word life story, and received this:

Abigail "Abbie" A. Vaux Smith was born on October 28, 1844, in Aurora, Erie County, New York, to Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux. Abbie grew up in a close-knit family with her siblings. In 1861, she married Devier J. Smith in Wisconsin, and together they had five children: Della, David, Mary, Matie, and one unnamed child. 

The Smith family relocated frequently, residing in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, where Devier worked as a farmer and livery stable owner. After her husband's death in 1894, Abbie moved to San Diego, California, to join her daughter Della's family. She resided with them for over 35 years.

Abbie owned property in San Diego's City Heights and lived comfortably with her family. She enjoyed time with her grandchildren, particularly Lyle Carringer. Abbie passed away on September 11, 1931, at age 86, due to complications from breast cancer. Her remains were cremated and inurned at Cypress View Mausoleum in San Diego. Abbie's life was marked by love, family, and resilience, leaving a lasting legacy for her descendants.

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