Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 31 August 2025).
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogicalk Society (CVGS) Board Meeting and reported on the Newsletter, Research Group, and plans for the Family History Roundtable. Wrote, edited and published via email the September 2025 edition of the CVGS Newsletter.
3) Was a panelist on the 1 September Mondays With Myrt webinar where we discussed Canada records and genealogical heroes with Claire Brisson-Banks, and also my AI-assisted historical fiction work.
4) Transcribed the 1815 Deed of Philip and Mary Row selling two tracts of land in Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Jonathan Potter for $851. 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 and one AI-assisted ancestor life Q&A, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
(AI ChatGPT5 image of Spangler family in 1840)
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: "Please Describe the Conditions Experienced by Martin Carringer and the 8th Battalion at Valley Forge In 1777-1778"
- Ask AI: "What Was Life Like for Henry Carringer, Age 13, in 1813 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania?"
8) Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandmother, Anna (Row) Auble (1787-1860) 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 "Anna's Song" -- Family History Poem, Song, Audio Overview and Video Overview Created by Artificial Intelligence on Genea-Musings and Substack.
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: "Sunday Morning Sing-Alongs."
10) 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.
11) My AncestryDNA now has 49,808 DNA matches (up 18 from 30 August) with 2,109 "close" matches today (up 1), with no new ThruLines. Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,746 DNA matches (up 13 from 30 August) 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 74,712 profiles (up 7 from last week) and 147,861 source citations (up 10).
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 #51 Elizabeth (King) Spangler (1796-1863) of Pennsylvania and Virginia with over 228 views. Genea-Musings had about 263,000 page views last week and over 774,000 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 church Men's Bible Study on Saturday. Still reading Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn. Watched the Chargers football game on Thursday - they beat Kansas City 27-21 in Brazil. Watched the San Diego State Aztecs football game on Saturday- they lost to Washington State 36-13. The Padres season continues and I watched the six Padres games - they were 2-4 this past week (overall 78-65 now).
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