Monday, June 2, 2025

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 1 June 2025

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 1 June 2025).  

1)  Attended the 28 May General Meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society with 30 in attendance on Zoom.  Kate Penney Howard presented "Adoption and DNA."

2)  Participated in the 26 May Mondays With Myrt webinar on Streamyard.  The panelists discussed Memorial Day posts (I mentioned my Asahel Read historical fiction story), Tony Ptroctor's STG-FTG program, and Dan's research trip to Pennsylvania. 

3)  Transcribed the 1798 Deed of Josiah Sawtell Selling Land in Middlesex County, Massachusetts to Zabdiel Adams with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandAunt Nancy E. (Oatley) Edson (1818-1892) 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 AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process in:
8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd greatgrandfather,  John Rich (1790-1868), and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics.  Posted the poem created by Gemini 2.5 Flash, the song lyrics created by Claude Sonnet 4, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "John Rich's Legacy" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence.
                                           (AI image of 1850 hand loom weaver in Wiltshire)

9)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,244 DNA matches (up 36 from 25 May) with 2091 "close" matches today (up 3), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 13,542 DNA matches (up 11 from 25 May) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

10)  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 147,760 source citations (up 6).  Added more short biographical sketches and source citations to ancestors, and edited historical place names for a number of families.  

11) 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 ABC Biography of #20 James Richman/Richmond (1821-1912) of Wiltshire and New England with over 399 views.  Genea-Musings had about 95,800 page views last week and over 367,000 views over the past month. 

12)  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.  Visited the dentist on Tuesday to check on my extracted tooth hole.  Finished reading Everything To Lose by Andrew Gross, and started G-Man by Stephen Hunter.  The Padres season continues and I watched six games this week - they were 4-2 this week (overall 33-24 now). 

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