Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 1 December 2024).
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting on Wednesday. Cheri Hudson Passey presented "How to Use the FamilySearch Catalog" and we elected new CVGS Officers for 2025-2026.
2) Participated in Mondays With Myrt on Monday, 25 November. Jill Morelli presented her RootsMagic research notes and analysis process. I discussed the Google NotebookLM AI tool.
3) Transcribed the 1893 Deed of James A. and Melissa Kemp to Henry Dickeson for Land in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandAunt Clarissa (Hildreth) Baldwin (1820-1852) of Townsend, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire for the 52 Relatives theme.
5) Updated the Artificial Intelligence Compendium by adding more links to AI tools, custom prompts, useful websites, useful videos, useful blog posts, and my own posts.
6) Requested free AI tools to answer a genealogy research question, and posted answers in Ask AI "What Skills Are Necessary For a Professional Genealogist To Use in Genealogical Research?" and Ask AI: "Suggest Novel Ways that Could Be Used To Research Genealogy and Family History and Tell Stories Of Ancestors and Relatives?"
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7) Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my paternal 2nd great-grandmother, Lucretia (Smith) Seaver (1828-1884) and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. I posted the poem created by ChatGPT4 AI, the song lyrics created by Claude AI, and the Suno song MP4, in "Lucretia's Quiet Grace" -- An Ancestor's Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence. Also wrote a Thanksgiving poem in Randy's Thanksliving Day.
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(image created by ChatGPT4)
8) Posted Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 20 to 26 November 2024, Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 21 to 27 November 2024, and Best of the Genea-Blogs - 24 to 30 November 2024 to keep readers updated on the genealogy world.
9) My AncestryDNA now has 47,375 DNA matches (up 36 from 24 November) with 2004 "close" matches today (up 1), with no new ThruLines. I added Notes to 1 Match, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,048 DNA matches (up 16 from 24 November) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
10) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 52,173 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).
11) FamilySearch Records has 3,389 record collections (up 1). FamilySearch Images has over 5.584 billion images (up about 61 million). Full-Text Search now has 2,267 collections (up 160) with 696.8 million images (up 149.1 million) transcribed and sourced. Full-Text Search has 228,912 "+seaver" results (up 59,611).
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 73,895 profiles (up 0 from last week) and 147,294 source citations (up 0).
13) 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 "Juliet's Legacy of Love" -- An Ancestor's Genealogy Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 258 views. Genea-Musings had about 216,000 page views last week and over 892,000 views over the past month.
14) Visited my daughter and two grandsons in Santa Cruz this past week (Tuesday to Saturday) to celebrate Thanksgiving and to visit the three grandcats. Both grandsons live away from home now - one in Portland and one in Nebraska, so it was fun to hear about their lives.
15) Real life events: Visited Linda several days at her memory care facility and we played Uno. Went to the grocery store on Monday. Finished reading The Innocent by David Baldacci, read 23-1/2 by James Patterson on the road trip, and started You've Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan.
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