Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 15 December 2024).
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research and DNA Group meeting on Zoom on Wednesday with 14 in attendance. We discussed the MyHeritage OldNews collection, the MyHeritage LiveMemory feature, FamilySearch Full-Text Search, Leah Larkin's post about GEDmatch, artificial intelligence, and David Nowotnik's free DNA tools to tabulate data and create a Leed's chart.
2) Watched two webinars on Family Tree Webinars - I (Think I) Have a DNA Network: Now What? by Diahan Southard, and Lost and Found: Locating Ancestral Origins with FAN Club and DNA by Mary Kircher Roddy.3) Transcribed the 1877 land indenture of Alexander Sovereen to Lemon Gibb Sovereen in Windoham township, Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandUncle Moses Hildreth (1828-1893) of Townsend and Northborough, Massachusetts for the 52 Relatives theme.
5) Requested free AI tools to answer a genealogy research question, and posted answers in Ask AI: "What online tools can be used to perform reverse genealogy and/or descendancy research?" and Ask AI: "Please create a multi-class outline with short descriptions for a 'Beginning Genealogy' class with homework assignments"
(image created on ChatGPT4)
6) Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my paternal 2nd great-grandfather, Henry Arnold White (1824-1885), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. I posted the poem created by ChatGPT4 AI, the song lyrics created by CoPilot AI, and the Suno song MP4, in "Henry White's Story" -- An Ancestor's Story In Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
7) Curated Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 11 to 17 December 2024, Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 12 to 18 December 2024 and Best of the Genea-Blogs - 15 to 21 December 2024 to keep readers updated on the genealogy world.
8) My AncestryDNA now has 47,506 DNA matches (up 52 from 15 December) with 2008 "close" matches today (up 1), with no new ThruLines. I added Notes to 4 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,094 DNA matches (up 14 from 15 December) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
9) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 52,186 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).
10) FamilySearch Records has 3,412 record collections (up 6). FamilySearch Images has over 5.567 billion images (up about 6 million). Full-Text Search now has 3,478 collections (up 247).
11) 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 73,929 profiles (up 11 from last week) and 147,307 source citations (up 2). Added more short biographical sketches to ancestors and edited historical place names for a number of families.
12) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was "Hannah's Song" -- An Ancestor's Story In Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 293 views. Genea-Musings had about 76,600 page views last week and over 515,800 views over the past month.
13) Real life events: Visited Linda several days at her memory care facility and we played Uno. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Attended the CVGS in-person Education Class on Tuesday. I'm still reading Hell's Corner by David Baldacci. My SDSU Aztecs won one basketball game, so now 8-2. My Chargers won this week's game over the Broncos, so now 9-6 on the season.
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