Monday, January 13, 2025

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 12 January 2025

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending 12 January 2025).  

1)  Attended the CVGS Board meting on Wednesday, and reported on the Research Group, DNA Interest Group and Newsletter.  Wrote, edited, published and emailed the January 2025 edition of the monthly Family History Gazette newsletter.

2)  Watched two Family Tree Webinars - Genealogy Meets AI: Panel Discussion hosted by Geoff Rasmussen and Lost and Found: Locating Ancestral Origins with FAN Club and DNA by Mary Kircher Roddy.

3)  Attended Mondays With Myrt on 6 January, and contributed discussion about the future AI tools that could be used in genealogy research.

4)  Transcribed the 1885 Mortgage Indenture of Alexander and Elizabeth Sovereen  for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme. 

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandUncle Aurelius Brigham (1830-1878) of Sterling, Massachusetts for the 52 Relatives theme.

6) Curated genealogy-related articles in Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 1 to 7 January 2025, Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 2 to 8 January 2025, and Best of the Genea-Blogs - 5 to 11 January 2025 to keep readers updated on the genealogy world.


8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my paternal 2nd great-grandmother, Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834-1923), 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  "Sophia's Story" -- An Ancestor's Story In Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.


9)  My AncestryDNA now has 47,705 DNA matches (up 84 from 5 January) with 2017 "close" matches today (up 7), with three new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 3 Matches, and added 3 new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 13,151 DNA matches (up 16 from 5  January) 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 52,239 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 1).  

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 74,005 profiles (up 9 from last week) and 147,335 source citations (up 7).  Added more short biographical sketches to ancestors and edited historical place names for a number of families. 

12) Wrote 24 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which four were a press release. The most viewed post last week was "The Craftsman's Tale" -- An Ancestor's Story In Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 287 views.  Genea-Musings had about 67,700 page views last week and over 243,000 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.  I finished reading A Devil Is Waiting by Jack Higgins and started Killing Floor by Lee Child.  My SDSU Aztecs were 1-1 in basketball, so now 10-4.  My Chargers lost this AFC playoff week's game to the Houston Texans, and are out of the playoffs (so 11-7 on the season).

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