Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 5 October 2025

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 5 October 2025).  

1)  Attended the monthly Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Wednesday, and reported on the newsletter, Research Group and Family History Roundtable. Wrote, edited, and publishede the October 2025 CVGS Newsletter via email to the members.  

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday.  Colin Whitney reviewed the MyHeritage website features.

3)  Transcribed the 1756 will of my 8th great-grandmother Jane (Willis) Hall of Sutton, Massachusetts.  It names her daughter, my 7th great-grandmother, Jane (Hall) Rice.  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 24 to 30 September 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 25 September to 1 Occtober 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - 28 September to 4 October 2025

5)  Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process, and two Life Memory posts, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:

• ABC Biography of #59 Sarah (Cutter) Knapp (1785-1878) of New Jersey

  
• ABC Biography of #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) of Massachusetts
• Frederick Walton Seaver's Life Memories - An AI-Assisted Memoir
• Sarah (Cutter) Knapp'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: "What Was Life Like for Frederick Seaver in 1890 at Age 13 in Leominster, Massachusetts?"

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: "Betty Artistic Renaissance."

8)  Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics and a podcast about my 3rd great-grandmother, Sarah (Fletcher) Kemp (1802-1850) 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 audio and video overview links in "Sarah'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)  My AncestryDNA now has 49,936 DNA matches (up 20 from 28 September) with 2,118 "close" matches today (up 3), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.  MyHeritageDNA now has 13,803 DNA matches (up 12 from 28 September) 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 74,757 profiles (up 25 from last week)  and 147,879 source citations (up 2).  

12) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was The Watchful House on 30th Street Remembers: Betty's Artistic Renaissance  with over 238 views.  Genea-Musings had about 152,000 page views last week and over 1,174,000 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. Still reading The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter.  The Padres lost thier playoff series to the Cubs 2 games to one. Watched the Charger games on Sunday and they lost, so are now 3-2 on the season.

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