Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 3 August 2025

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 3 August 2025).  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) program on Zoom on Wednesdayt by Lisa Medina on Mexican Genealogy.  

2)  Attended the San Diego Genelaogical Society (SDGS) DNA Interest group meeting on Zoom on Saturday with Colin Whitney presenting DNA Painter 2025.

3)  Transcribed the 1771 Petition of Michael Ruth Requesting a Partition of the land of his intestate father (Peter Ruth) in Berks County, Pennsylvania with over 800 acres and 14 heirs-at-law. I transcribed it myself because FamilySearch Full-Text Search didn't have it and the handwriting was so poor that I thought an AI tool would be of little help..  

4)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for 2nd Great-GrandAunt Eliza (Carringer) Robinson (1827-1914) of Pennsylvania, Iowa, Kansas and Colorado for the 52 Relatives theme.

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 23 to 29 July 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 24 to 30 July 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - 27 July to 2 August 2025

6)  Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process and an AI-assisted memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:

• ABC Biography of #41 Ann (Marshman) Richman (1784-1856) of Hilperton, Wiltshire
  
• ABC Biography of #42 John Rich (1790-1868) of Hilperton, Wiltshire
• Ann (Marshman) Richman's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir

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7)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Ask AI: "Ten Interview Questions to Ask Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) About His Life Experiences, With Answers"
  
  
                                               (image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)
• Ask AI: "Please Describe Norman Seaver's Revolutionary War Service" 

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8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandfather, Daniel Spangler (1781-1851) 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 Sonnet 4, the Suno song link, and the ContentLM podcast link in Daniel's Road"-- A Family History Poem, Song and Podcast Created by Artificial Intelligence  on Genea-Musings and Substack.

                                                 (image created by OpenAI ChatGPT4)

9)  Posted one of the AI-assisted memories of my ancestral home in the home's voice, based on my own memories, on Genea-Musings and Substack - see The Watchful House on 30th Street Remembers: #1 -- Betty's Daily Miracle.

10)  Used Canva to create videos of several AI-assisted ancestor songs from Suno and several of the NotebookLM Podcasts.  Created more videos using Canva and added them to YouTube - see all of them on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.  

11)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,619 DNA matches (up 42 from 27 July) with 2,106 "close" matches today (up 3), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 3 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.  MyHeritageDNA now has 13,690 DNA matches (up 15 from 27 July) 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 74,662 profiles (up 8 from last week)  and 147,831 source citations (up 4).  

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 #41 Ann (Marshman) Richman (1784-1856) of Hilperton, Wiltshire with over 224 views.  Genea-Musings had about 282,000 page views last week and over 831,000 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. Lori and Logan visited until Tuesday and we visited Linda, and went to the Padres game on Monday. Attended the church men's group breakfast on Saturday  morning. Still reading Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter.  The Padres season continues and I watched the six Padres games this week - they were 5-1 this past week (overall 62-50 now).  

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