Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 2 November 2025).
1) Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society program on Wednesday, with Pam Vestal presenting "Finding What You Need and Using What You Find."
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday, with five SDGS members discussing their use of DNA research to help find ancestors.
3) Participated in Mondays With Myrt on Monday and discussed writing ancestor stories and family history stories about our own lives.
4) Attended Aryn Youngless' webinar (Klamath Falls Genealogical Society) on "From Research To Novel" on Saturday.
5) Attended Robin McCarthy's class (Santa Barbara Genealogical Society) on Tech Tips on Sunday.
6) Transcribed the 1646 Will of 10th great-grandfather Henry Adams (1583-1646) of Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was another will in secretary hand, but I didn't use Full-Text Search.
7) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
8) 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: 9) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
13) My AncestryDNA now has 50,060 DNA matches (up 43 from 26 October) with 2,127 "close" matches today (up 5), with four new ThruLines. Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,873 DNA matches (up 24 from 26 October) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA and MyHeritageDNA.
14) 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 74,791 profiles (up 16 from last week) and 147,905 source citations (up 3).
16) 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 eyue doctor on Tuesday and got a prescription for new glasses and the DMV form filled out, plus an appointment for cataract evaluation. Attended the church Men's Bible Study on Saturday. Finished reading Zoo by James Patterson and started The Rule of Law by John Lescroart. Watched the World Series off and on. Watched the Charger game on Sunday and they won 27-20 over the Titans, so now 6-3. Listened to the San Diego State Aztecs game on Saturday and they won 24-7 over Wyoming, so they are now 7-1. It was another busy week!
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Randy. My husband, Ron, had cataract surgery in March on both eyes. He is amazed at the difference in his vision. He opted for the distance vision and just wears drug store readers for close up. If you have cataracts, don't hesitate to get them fixed.
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