Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 16 February 2025).
1) Hosted and moderated the CVGS Research Group Meeting on Wednesday. I reported on the upcoming RootsTech 2025 conference, Finding Your Roots, MyHertage MyStories feature, Reclaim the Records, two new books, the MyHeritage OldNews indexes, and my own AI work and family stories work. We discussed our best genealogy work over the last month.
2) Transcribed the 1885 Mortgage Discharge of Alexander Sovereen to Calanda Landed Credit Company for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario for Amanuensis Monday.
3) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my 2nd Great-GrandAunt Ann Richman (1818-????) of Hilperton, Wiltshire for the 52 Relatives theme.
4) Curated genealogy-related articles in Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 5 to 11 February 2025, Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 6 to 12 February 2025, and Best of the Genea-Blogs - 9 to 15 February 2025 to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world.
5) Updated my review of FamilySearch Full-Text Search in FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 12 February 2025. Used Full-Text Search to find records for several ancestors, downloaded them, and will use them in future blog posts.
6) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy subjects:
- Ask AI: "Please Create a Summary of the Evidence That Supports a Birth Date of 1839, or 1842, of Devier James Lamphier Smith" And Then "Construct a Proof Argument..."
- Ask AI: "Please Create a Summary Of the Life of Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894) ..." From a RootsMagic Timeline, and then "Include Important Events..."
7) Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics commemorating the life of my 2nd great-grandfather, shoemaker David Auble (1817-1894), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by Grok and the song lyrics by Claude Sonnet 3.5, and the Suno song MP4, in "The Cobbler's Tale" --- A Family History Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
8) My AncestryDNA now has 48,209 DNA matches (up 121 from 9 February) with 2042 "close" matches today (up 6), with 1 new ThruLines. Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match line to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,260 DNA matches (up 16 from 9 February) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
9) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. Matched 52,335 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 31).
10) 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 74,105 profiles (up 31 from last week) and 147,375 source citations (up 18). Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.
11) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was "Abbey's Journey" --- A Family History Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 268 views. Genea-Musings had about 332,000 page views last week and over 554,000 views over the past month. [I don't know what was so popular - perhaps scraping occurred.]
12) Real life events: Visited Linda several days at her memory care facility and we played Uno. Attended the Valentine's Day luncheon at her facility. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the financial advisor on Thursday and we are doing well. Still reading Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter. My SDSU Aztecs were 2-0 in college basketball, so are now 17-6. Watched the Genesis golf tournament in La Jolla off and on.
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