Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 31 August 2025).
1) Watched the Legacy Family Tree webinar by Yvette Hoitink "Was Eleanor of Aquitaine My Ancestor? Applying the GPS across 30 Generations." Wow!! Check out this webinar!
2) Transcribed the 1863 Deed of Henry Carringer selling 54 acres of Donation land in Mercer County, Pennsylvania to his son, Cornelius Carringer for $1,000. I transcribed it with the help of FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
3) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
4) Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process and two AI-assisted ancestor life memoirs, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
- ABC Biography of #49 Sarah (Feather) Carringer (1804-1848) of Ohio and Pennsylvania
- ABC Biography of #50 Daniel Spangler (1781-1851) of Pennsylvania and Virginia
(AI ChatGPT5 image of Spangler family in 1840)
5) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
6) Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandmother, Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux (1815-1882) 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 and video overview link in "Mary Ann, Pioneer Woman" -- Family History Poem, Song, Audio Overview and Video Overview Created by Artificial Intelligence on Genea-Musings and Substack.
7) 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: "The Dinner Table Democracy."
8) Used Canva to create videos of several AI-assisted ancestor songs from Suno and several of the NotebookLM Podcasts. Added those, and a number of the NotebookLM Videos, to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.
9) Researched and wrote In Search of the Perfect Genealogical Sketch - Updated! to help researchers find ways to write or improve their genealogical sketches.
10) My AncestryDNA now has 49,790 DNA matches (up 46 from 23 August) with 2,108 "close" matches today (up 2), with one new ThruLines (probably correct). Added Notes to 1 Matchs, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,733 DNA matches (up 17 from 23 August) 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 74,705 profiles (up 29 from last week) and 147,851 source citations (up 1).
12) Wrote 23 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 17 to 23 August 2025 with over 258 views. Genea-Musings had about 226,000 page views last week and over 661,000 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 and catch the beach ball out on the patio. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Finished reading The Enemy Inside by Steve Martini and started Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn. Watched the San Diego State Aztecs football game on Thursday - they may be improved over last year. The Padres season continues and I watched the six Padres games - they were 2-4 this past week (overall 76-61 now).
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