Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 19 October 2025).
1) Hosted and moderated the monthly Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Family History Roundtable meeting on Wednesday on Zoom. We discussed the formatting of the group, the best practices for handling photographs, guidelines for writing a family history story or book (plus 50 sample questions), the homework for October (writing a 300-word story), and the homework for next month (a story about where you are from). Contact me if you want to be part of this group (randy.seaver@gmail.com).
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles Interest Group meeting on Saturday on Zoom. Colin Whitney presented "Probate Records of the British Isles."3) Transcribed the 1730 land deed of 7th great-grandfather Nathaniel Guild selling land in Walpole, Mass. to Jacob Ellis.
4) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
5) Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process, and one Life Memory post, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
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 Can I Do With a Whole Genome Sequencing File, and What Can It Tell Me?
- Ask AI: "What Was Life Like for Alma Bessie Richmond At Age 10 in 1892 in Putnam, Connecticut?"
- Ask AI: "Please Describe the Life of Sarah (Fletcher) Kemp in 1845 in Prince Edward County, Ontario"
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: Rootie-Toot-Toot - A Cat's Life.
8) Requested free AI tools to create a poem, song lyrics, a podcast and a short video presentation about the life of my 3rd great-grandmother, Elizabeth (Putman) Sovereen (1820-1895). Had Suno.com create a song using the lyrics. Posted the poem created by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, the song lyrics created by X Grok 3, the Suno song link, and the Google NotebookLM audio and video overview links in "Elizabeth'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 Google NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.
10) My AncestryDNA now has 49,990 DNA matches (up 38 from 12 October) with 2,120 "close" matches today (down 1), with no new ThruLines. AncestryDNA updated my ethnicity estimate. Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,834 DNA matches (up 20 from 12 October) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA and MyHeritageDNA.
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 74,763 profiles (up 6 from last week) and 147,899 source citations (up 17).
12) 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 "Ode to Alexander Sovereen" -- Family History Poem, Song, Audio Overview and Video Overview Created by Artificial Intelligence with over 309 views. Genea-Musings had about 160,000 page views last week and over 921,000 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. Went to the Rohr Engineer's lunch on Thursday. Still reading The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter. Watched the baseball playoffs off and on. Watched the Charger game on Sunday and they lost to the Colts 38-24, so are now 4-3 on the season.
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