Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 2 February 2025).
1) Attended the CVGS General Meeting on Wednesday with about 50 in attendance. Teresa Steinkamp McMillin was the speaker on Naturalization Records.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Study Group meeting on Saturday, led by Colin Whitney. Kathleen Fernandes presented an Overview of DNA tools and techniques.
3) Went through the RootsTech 2025 Schedule and selected the Online classes I want to watch during and after RootsTech. I added about 40 classes to "My Schedule."
4) Transcribed the 1893 Mortgage Indenture of Aleander and Elizabeth Sovereen to Dent Dalton for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario for the Amanuensis Monday theme.
- Describe and analyze a historical photograph using Mark Thompson's photo analyzer in Ask AI: "Please Describe and Analyze This Photo of a San Diego Family and Home."
- Experimented to find a useful and free audio-to-text transcription service in Ask AI: NotebookLM Podcast and Podcast Transcription of "Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894) Life Story" Did several more audio-to-text transcriptions to exhaust my January credits.
- Experimented with DeepSeek and the Perplexity R1 in Ask Reasoning AI: Using Perplexity's Sonar-Reasoning To Ask "What Technology Improvements In Genealogy ... Are Expected In the Next 5 Years?"
- Created several more Google NotebookLM Audio Overviews and text summaries based on ancestor genealogical sketches.
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