Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 21 September 2025).
1) Hosted the new monthly Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Family History Roundtable meeting on Zoom. Presented ideas for discussions about saving and digitizing photographs, family papers, genealogical research, writing family stories, and preserving all of that.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) British Isles Interest Group meeting hosted by Colin Whitney, who spoke about the Virtual National Ireland Treasury.
3) Attended the Mondays W\ith Myrt webinar on Monday and helped present the Tree Crossing description.
4) Transcribed the 1817 Deed of Stephen Cutter Buying Land in Middlesex County, New Jersey from Abner Laforge for $700. I transcribed it with the help of FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
5) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
6) 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:
7) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
11) My AncestryDNA now has 49,878 DNA matches (up 39 from 14 September) with 2,115 "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 13,769 DNA matches (up 9 from 14 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 74,729 profiles (up 7 from last week) and 147,875 source citations (up 8).
13) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir with over 215 views. Genea-Musings had about 270,000 page views last week and over 1,154,000 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. Went to the dermatologist on Monday and she took three biopsies. Went to the dentist on Thursday and had the pin for my implant installed. Still reading Battle Mountain by C.J. Box. The Padres season continues and I watched seven Padres games - they were 3-3 this past week (overall 85-71 now). Watched the two Chargers games (Monday and Sunday) and they are now 3-0 on the season.
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