Monday, June 30, 2025

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 29 June 2025

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 29 June 2025).  

1)  Attended the 25 June Annual Picnic of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society in-person with 14 in attendance.  We had a fun time discussing healthy problems, life experiences and genealogy while enjoying barbecue hamburgers and brats with side dishes and desserts, and played two  genealogy-oriented games.  The Newsletter Editor forgot to take photographs.  

2)  Transcribed the 1785 Bond and Guardianship Declaration for Moses Smith of Walpole in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate records with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

3)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle Benedict Oatley (1825-1891) of New England for the 52 Relatives theme.

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

5)  Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process and an AI-assisted memoir in:

7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my great-grandparents - "Austin and Della Life Stories - Part 4: Second Chances" - AI-Assisted Historical Fiction.

8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd great-grandmother,  Miranda (Wade) White (1804-1850) and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics.  Posted the poem created by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, the song lyrics created by X Grok 3, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "Miranda's Loves" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence.


                                               (image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)

9)  Posted some of my life memories on Genea-Musings and Substack - see 

Monday Memories: My High School Years, 1958-1961.


10)  Updated about twenty 52 Ancestors genealogical sketches to include family data and recent research and to standardize them.  There are many more left to do.

11)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,406 DNA matches (up 30 from 22 June) with 2,098 "close" matches today (up 1), with 3 new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 4 Matches, and added one new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 13,619 DNA matches (up 25 from 22 June) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

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 74,632 profiles (up 31 from last week) and 147,788 source citations (up 3).  

13) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was ABC Biography of #28 David Auble (1817-1894) of New Jersey and Indiana with over 284 views.  Genea-Musings had about 404,000 page views last week and over 1,024,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear). 

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.  Went to the CVGS Annual Picnic and saw friends and colleagues. The new TV came on Monday and I installed it.  Still reading The Exchange by John Grisham.  The Padres season continues and I watched six games this week - they were 3-3 this week (overall 45-38 now).  

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