Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 30 March 2025).
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society General Meeting on Wednesday. Sara Cochran presented "Who Needed It Anyway? - the 1890 U.S. Census."
2) Virtually attended the AI Day at the i4GG conference on Friday with Steve Little and Mark Thompson providing six presentations. Interesting, especially the new image creation capabilities at OpenAI and Google Gemini.
3) Transcribed the 1856 Article of Agreement Between William Knapp and Martin Myers for Land in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle Jesse Rich (1822-1871) of Hilperton, Wiltshire for the 52 Relatives theme.
5) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
6) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy subjects:
- Ask Google Gemini Deep Research AI: "Provide a Family History of John Nicholas Brocke (1853-1938)"
- Ask Claude AI: "Please Create a Dialogue Between Rebecca Carringer and Her Family About Surviving the Tornado"
7) Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd greatgrandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by Claude 3.7 Sonnet and the song lyrics by Grok 3, and the Suno song MP4, in "Abigail's Thread" -- A Family History Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence.
8) Added more ancestor Notebooks to the Google NotebookLM AI tool, captured the audio overviews, and used TurboScribe (free for 3 transcriptions a day) to render the podcasts into text. I finished my 2nd great-grandparents notebooks and have 10 podcast transcriptions still to do. Also, I added the Claude biographies to a word processing file through the second great-grandparents. I have started doing Notebooks and Claude biographies on the 3rd great-grandparents now.
9) My AncestryDNA now has 48,771 DNA matches (up 27 from 23 March) with 2071 "close" matches today (up 1), with two new ThruLines (both wrong IMHO). Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,392 DNA matches (up 9 from 23 March) 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 52,563 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 14).
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 74,344 profiles (up 13 from last week) and 147,415 source citations (up 14). Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.
12) Wrote 19 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was "The Yeoman's Tale" -- A Family History Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 326 views. Genea-Musings had about 39,600 page views last week and over 199,000 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. Went to the dermatologist on Monday and she did a biopsy on the tip of my nose - it's a basal cell carcinoma so I have another minor surgerey scheduled. My desktop computer keyboard stopped working on Friday so I bought a new keyboard on Saturday and things are back to normal. I'm still reading In Too Deep by Lee Child. The Padres season started and they were 3-0 this week.
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