Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 4 May 2025

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 4 May 2025).  

1)  Attened the 30 April meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society on Zoom with Dana Palmer presenting "Where is it? Using Maps in Genealogy Research."

2)  Attended the 3 May San Diego Genealogical Society DNA SIG meeting on Zoom with Colin Whitney presenting "GEDMatch."

3)  Attended the 28 April Mondays With Myrt discussion.  The group discussed Hillary's attendance at the GOONS Conference, Michelle Chubenko on Galicia, my ABC Biography work, SubStack, FamilySearch Genealogies, and Dan's Full-Text Search find. 

4)  Transcribed the 1814 Affidavit attach to the Deed of Jasper Patridge Buying Land from Josiah Pelton in Trumbull County, Ohio with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

5)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandAunt Harriet A. White (1836-????) of New England for the 52 Relatives theme.

6) Curated genealogy-related articles  to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 23 to 29 April 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 24 to 30 April 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - 27 April to 3 May 2025

7)  Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my "Ancestor Biography Creation" peocess in:

• ABC Biography of #13 Abbey Ardelle "Della" (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944) of Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and California
• ABC Biography of #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916) of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and California

8)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy subjects:

• Ask AI:" Please Describe Funeral and Burial Services in 1775 In Rural Massachusetts"
• Ask AI: "What Subjects Were Taught in Schools in the 1850 to 1870 Period?"

7)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd greatgrandfather,  Lambert Brigham (1794-1834), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics.  Posted the poem created by Claude 3.7 and the song lyrics by Grok 3, and the Suno song link, in "Lambert's Legacy" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence.

10)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,029 DNA matches (up 24 from 27 April) with 2082 "close" matches today (up 0), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 13,459 DNA matches (up 12 from 27 April) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

11)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 10 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 52,726 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 39).  

12)  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 74,572 profiles (up 43 from last week) and 147,735 source citations (up 1).  Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.  

13) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was ABC Biography of #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916) of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and California  with over 309 views.  Genea-Musings had about 55,000 page views last week and over 271,000 views over the past month. 

14)  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. Drove to Huntington Beach on Sunday to celebrate Audrey's birthday and see one group of my descendants. Finished reading Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter and started Safe Enough by Lee Child.  The Padres season continues and I watched three games this week- they were 5-0 this week (overall 22-11 now). 

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