Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 23 March 2025).
1) Hosted and moderated the CVGS DNA Interest Group Meeting on Wednesday. I reported on the RootsTech 2025 DNA videos, the future AncestryDNA clustering tool, the updated FamilyTreeeDNA mtDNA haplotree, the DNA Painter "Places" feature, and the i4GG conference in San Dego on 28-30 March.
2) Attended the Mondays With Myrt session on Monday, 17 March. We discussed RootsTech 2025, the new WikiTree graphic interface, Myrt's Paul Froman find, Dan's updated Blurring Tool, and Substack.
3) Transcribed the 1899 Quitclaim deed of Alexander Sovereen and three others giving land to the village of Delhi, Ontario for use as a park. This completes the land records for alexander on FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle John Rich (1822-1870) of Hilperton and Bradford on Avon, 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:
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 Grok 3 and the song lyrics by Claude Sonnet 3.7, and the Suno song MP4, in "The Yeoman's Tale" -- 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'm trying to finish the life stories of my ancestors back through the 2nd great-grandparents and see if I can put them in an eBook of some sort for my descendants and relatives.
9) My AncestryDNA now has 48,744 DNA matches (up 89 from 16 March) with 2070 "close" matches today (up 2), with one new ThruLines. Added Notes to 1 Matches, and added no new DNA match line to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,383 DNA matches (up 20 from 16 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 52,549 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 41).
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 74,331 profiles (up 38 from last week) and 147,403 source citations (up 8). Added more short biographical sketches and source citations 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 one wase a press release. The most viewed post last week was "My Roots and Branches" -- A Family History Poem and Song Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 242 views. Genea-Musings had about 32,200 page views last week and over 254,000 views over the past month.
13) Real life events: Visited Linda several days at her memory care facility and we played Uno. Celebrated our 55th anniversary on Friday at her facility and took a photo. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the dentist on Monday for deep cleaning and checkup - need at least one root canal and 4 crowns. Argghhh. Went to the cardiologist lab for a routine pacemaker checkup - my heart is ticking well. I finished reading Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter and started In Too Deep by Lee Child. My SDSU Aztecs lost to North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament, so finished 21-10. The Padres exhibition games continue and opening day is 27 March..
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