Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 14 September 2025

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 31 August 2025).  

1)  Hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group Meeting.  Reported on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, MyHeritage Cousin Dinder, Ancestry's handwriting recognition, the Genealogy Assistant extension, Webtember 2025, ECGGC, and Roberta Estes' Mitochondrial DNA post. 

2)  Worked on the presentation for the first CVGS Family History Roundtable, intended to help members deal with capturing and organizing their media and family stories, and passing them on to their descendants.

3)  Transcribed the 1811 Deed of Stephen Cutter Selling Land in Middlesex County, New Jersey to Richard Cutter for $1.  I transcribed it with the help of FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 3 to 9 September 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 4 to 10 September 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - 7 to 13 September 2025

5)  Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process, one AI-assisted ancestor life Q&A, and one life memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:

• ABC Biography of #55 Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux (1815-1882) of New York, Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas

(AI ChatGPT5 image of Vaux family in 1860)

• ABC Biography of #7 Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977) of Illinois and California
  
• Interview Questions And Answers For Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) About His Life Experiences
• Anna (Row) Auble's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir

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

• Ask AI: Dialogue Between Georgianna and Emily Auble On Emily's Wedding Day

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: "Fred's Domain."

8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandfather, William Knapp (1775-1856) 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 audio and video overview links in "William Knapp's Song" -- Family History Poem, Song, Audio Overview and Video Overview Created by Artificial Intelligence on Genea-Musings and Substack.

9)  Added a number of the recent NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.  

10)  Downloaded and installed RootsMagic 11 and tried out the new AI Prompt Builder in RootsMagic 11 Is Here! Trying Out the AI Prompt Builder Feature.

11)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,839 DNA matches (up 31 from 7 September) with 2,112 "close" matches today (up 3), with two new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.  MyHeritageDNA now has 13,760 DNA matches (up 14 from 7 September) 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 74,722 profiles (up 10 from last week)  and 147,867 source citations (up 6).  

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 #55 Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux (1815-1882) of New York, Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas with over 256 views.  Genea-Musings had about 281,000 page views last week and over 1,008,000 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 and catch the beach ball out on the patio. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Attrended the celebration of life for my friend Ben Smith on Saturday. Finished reading Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn and started Battle Mountain by C.J. Box.  The Padres season continues and I watched seven Padres games - they were 4-3 this past week (overall 82-68 now).  

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