Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 6 July 2025).
1) Attended the 2 July board meeting of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society. Reported on the Newsletter, Research Group and DNA Interest Group. Wrote, edited and published via email the July 2025 edition of the CVGS Newsletter.
2) Transcribed the 1785 Inventory of the estate of 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 Jonathan Oatley Jr (1828-1884) 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:
- ABC Biography of #31 Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp (1840-1874) of Ontario
- ABC Biography of #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) of Massachusetts
- Abigail A. (Vaux) Smith's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir
6) Requested free AI tools to tell me about this genealogy and family history subjects:
(image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)
7) Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my great-grandparents - "Austin and Della Life Stories - Part 5: Roots and Branches" - AI-Assisted Historical Fiction.
8) Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandfather, Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) and had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by X Grok 3, the song lyrics created by Anthropic Claude 4, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in "Jonathan's Faith" -- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence on Genea-Musings and Substack.
(image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)
Also posted AI-Assisted Poems Recounting the Revolutionary War Service of Martin Carringer (1758-1835) for the Fourth of July.
9) Posted some of my life memories on Genea-Musings and Substack - see
Monday Memories: The Kennedy Assassination in 1963.10) Updated about ten 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 49,447 DNA matches (up 41 from 29 June) with 2,098 "close" matches today (up 0), with no new ThruLines. Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,630 DNA matches (up 11 from 29 June) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
12) Used the free period for OldNews.com to search for newspaper articles about my ancestors. Found quite a few in New England. OldNews has Leominster, Putnam, and many other towns.
13) 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 74,647 profiles (up 15 from last week) and 147,794 source citations (up 6).
14) Wrote 24 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was ABC Biography of #31 Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp (1840-1874) of Ontario with over 365 views. Genea-Musings had about 182,000 page views last week and over 1,192,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear).
15) 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 church Fourth of July picnic on Friday and the men's Bible Study breakfast on Saturday. Finished reading The Exchange by John Grisham and started Soft Target by Stephen Hunter. The Padres season continues and I watched six games this week - they were 3-3 this past week (overall 48-41 now).
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