Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 22 June 2025

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 22 June 2025).  

1)  Hosted and moderated the 18 June DNA Interest Group Meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society on Zoom with 14 in attendance.  We discussed the new 23andMe bid, Jonny Perl's new Shared DNA tool, uploads at MyHeritage, Diahan Southard's Branch Points post, and the latest DNA Family Tree Webinar.  The discussion was centered on attendees DNA challenges. 

2)  Transcribed the 1779 Deed of Phineas Lambert to Jonathan Forbes in Worcester County, Massachusetts with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

3)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandUncle William Henry Oatley (1824-1899) 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:

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 11 to 17 June 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 12 to 18 June 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 15 to 21 June 2025

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

• ABC Biography of #27 Abigail A. (Vaux) Smith (1844-1931) of New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and California

• ABC Biography of #28 David Auble (1817-1894) of New Jersey and Indiana

• Sophia (Newton) Hildreth's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir

6)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about this genealogy and family history subject:

• Ask AI: "Please Describe a Day in the Life of My 3rd Great-Grandmother, Sarah (Knapp) Auble (1818-1904) in 1885 in Terre Haute, Indiana"

                                                    (image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)

• The Free ChatGPT4 AI Tool Can Sharpen and Colorize Faded and/or Black and White Photographs
  

                                                  (image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)

7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my great-grandparents - "Austin and Della Life Stories - Part 3: Joy and Sorrow" - AI Historical Fiction.

8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem and song lyrics about my 3rd great-grandfather,  Jonathan White (1804-1850) and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics.  Posted the poem created by Claude Sonnet 4, the song lyrics created by X Grok 3, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "Jonathan White's Life" -- 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: Growing Up in the 1960s in San Diego.

10)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,376 DNA matches (up 529 from 15 June) with 2097 "close" matches today (up 0), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 0 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.   MyHeritageDNA now has 13,592 DNA matches (up 14 from 15 June) for me.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

11)  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 74,601 profiles (up 8 from last week) and 147,785 source citations (up 16).  

12) 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 The Free ChatGPT4 AI Tool Can Sharpen and Colorize Faded and/or Black and White Photographs with over 185 views.  Genea-Musings had about 339.000 page views last week and over 875,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear). 

13)  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. Met Tami and two of her kids at Ruby's Diner in Carlsbad for lunch, a walk and photos on Saturday (also got a beautiful Father's Day shirt).  Finished reading G-Man by Stephen Hunter and started The Exchange by John Grisham.  The Padres season continues and I watched seven games this week - they were 3-4 this week (overall 42-35 now).  The family room TV failed and a new one should come on Monday.

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