Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 11 May 2025).
1) Hosted and moderated the 14 May board meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group meeting with 19 in attendance on Zoom. We discussed Family Tree Maker 2024 software, the new Ancestry Document Transcription feature, free email genealogy newsletters, Substack genealogy, AI-assisted biographies, and more.
2) Attended Mondays With Myrt on 14 May. We discussed Tony Proctor's free SVG FTG family tree tool, the Ancestry Document Transcription tool, GeneaBloggers site ande Substack, and many lightning round items.
3) Transcribed the 1827 Deed of Josiah Sawtell selling land in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire to Asher Peabody. with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle Joseph H. Oatley (1816-1898) 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 greatgrandfather, John Richman (1788-1867), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by Grok 3, the song lyrics created by Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "Richman's Threads Of Time" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence.
9) Requested the free AI tools to create a sad story about an MPE in "It Could Happen To Me" -- A Sad Family Tree Story. Then followed up with "It Could Happen To Me" Revisited - AI Analyzes Why the Birth Facts Were Hidden.
10) My AncestryDNA now has 49,176 DNA matches (up 75 from 11 May) with 2088 "close" matches today (up 4), with one new ThruLines. Added Notes to 4 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,487 DNA matches (up 28 from 11 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 0).
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 0 from last week) and 147,748 source citations (up 7). Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.
13) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Ask AI (Grok 3 DeepSearch): "Please Tell Me How To Solve a Genealogical Brick Wall Problem For My Hannah Smith" with over 241 views. Genea-Musings had about 62,600 page views last week and over 297,000 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. Daughter Lori and her boys came to visit on Thursday and left on Sunday. They demoed the backyard patio cover, fed the rose bushes, and did other household tasks for me. We went to the Padres game on Saturday night in the drizzle and cool. Finished reading Safe Enough by Lee Child, and started Everything To Lose by Andrew Gross. The Padres season continues and I watched six games this week - they were 2-4 this week (overall 27-18 now).
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