Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 11 May 2025).
1) Attened the 7 May board meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society on Zoom and discussed the Newsletter, Research group and DNA Interest group. Wrote, edited and published the CVGS Newsletter for May 2025.
2) Attended the 10 May San Diego Genealogical Society program meeting on Zoom. Richard Hill presenting "Finding Your Family with DNA Testing" and "Comparing DNA Ethnicity Estimates."
3) Transcribed the 1826 Deed of Robert and Sarah Jefts Selling Land to Josiah Sawtell in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle John Alfred Oatley (1815-1863) of Rhode Island and Connecticut for the 52 Relatives theme.
5) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
6) Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my "Ancestor Biography Creation" peocess in:
7) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy subjects:
8) Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd greatgrandmother, Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by Grok 3, the song lyrics by Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "Sophia's Seasons" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence.
9) Tried using the new Ancestry AI Document Transcription tool on a colonial handwritten deed, a handwritten will and a colonial vital records page in Trying Out Ancestry.com's New Document Transcription Tool.
10) My AncestryDNA now has 49,101 DNA matches (up 72 from 4 May) with 2084 "close" matches today (up 2), with one new ThruLines. Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,469 DNA matches (up 10 from 4 May) 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 52,731 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 5).
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 74,578 profiles (up 6 from last week) and 147,741 source citations (up 6). Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.
13) Wrote 23 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Trying Out Ancestry.com's New Document Transcription Tool with over 211 views. Genea-Musings had about 125,000 page views last week and over 282,000 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. Still reading Safe Enough by Lee Child. The Padres season continues and I watched six games this week - they were 3-3 this week (overall 25-14 now).
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