Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 23 November 2025).
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Familyt History Roundtable Group on Wednesday. We discussed guidelines for organizing genealogy and family history research, guidelines for writing a family story or ancestor story, and How to write a biography for an ancestor, plus the homework of "write a short story about "Where I'm From."
2) Transcribed the 1692 Deed of Shubael and Hannah Seaver selling woodland in Roxbury, Mass. to John Davis for 9 pounds with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
3) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
4) Wrote two "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
5) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
- Using Steve's Research Assistant v6.0 to Assess a Death Certificate ... and More
- Shubael Seaver's Life Memories in 1729 - An AI-Assisted Memoir
- Ask AI: Describe the Fire at Robert Seaver's House in Sudbury in 1748
- Robert Seaver's Life Memories in 1683 - An AI-Assisted Memoir
6) 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 - in The Watchful House on 30th Street Remembers: "The Walls That Heard Everything."
7) Wrote an AI-assisted short stories about my parents on Genea-Musings and Substack:
8) Experiemented with the Google NotebookLM Historical biography, Infographic, and Slide Show features in Google NotebookLM Biography, Infographic and Slide Show for Elijah Pickrell McKnew and Jane (Whittle) McKnew.
9) Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.
10) Continued working on my wife's ancestral family genealogical sketches. Wrote Genealogical Sketch of the Elijah Pickrell McKnew and Jane (Whittle) McKnew Family of San Francisco, California.
11) My AncestryDNA now has 50,127 DNA matches (up 16 from 16 November) with 2,129 "close" matches today (up 0), with one new ThruLines. Added Notes to 3 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA now has 13,912 DNA matches (up 12 from 16 November) for me.
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 74,813 profiles (up 13 from last week) and 147,922 source citations (up 8).
13) Wrote 25 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Shubael Seaver's Life Memories in 1729 - An AI-Assisted Memoir with over 284 views. Genea-Musings had about 83,000 page views last week and over 702,000 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 walked around the facility and the patio. Linbda's wheelchair fractured so i bought a new one and it was delivered on Tuesday. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the dentist on Friday for cleaning. Finished reading The Rule of Law by John Lescroart and started Whispering by John Grisham. No Charger game this week so they are now 7-4. Watched the San Diego State Aztecs game on Saturday and they won 25-3 over San Jose State, so they are now 9-2. Watched the San Diego State basketball game on Wednesday and they lost to Troy 109-108, so are now 2-1 on the season.
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