Monday, December 8, 2025

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 7 December 2025

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 7 December 2025).  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board meeting on Wednesday, and reported on the newsletter, the Research group and Family History Roundtable group.  Wrote, edited, and delivered via email the December 2025 issue of the CVGS newsletter.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genelaogical Society DNA Interest Group on Saturday, with Colin Whitney and three others presenting their recent successes..

3)  Transcribed the 1690 Deed of Shubael and Hannah Seaver selling ten acres of land in Roxbury, Mass. to Robert Thompson for 30 pounds with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:

5)  Wrote one "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process,  and two Life Memoirs, 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: 
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 - in The Watchful House on 30th Street Remembers: "Randy's Flying Adventure."

8)  Wrote an AI-assisted short stories about my parents 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)  Wrote two genealogical sketches of my wife Linda's ancestral couples in:
11)  My AncestryDNA now has 50,192 DNA matches (up 30 from 30 November) with 2,131 "close" matches today (up 2), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 4 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.  MyHeritageDNA now has 13,944 DNA matches (up 9 from 30 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 74,817 profiles (up 3 from last week)  and 147,925 source citations (up 3).  

13) Wrote 26 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Google NotebookLM Slide Deck Narrated Video for Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver with over 485 views.  Genea-Musings had about 60,200 page views last week and over 377,000 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. Our pastor and deeacon visited Linda's facility and served us communion. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Attended the church Men's Bible Study on Saturday for breakfast. Finished reading The Whisperer by John Grisham and started The Hop-Picker Murders by Nathan Dylan Goodwin.  My Chargers will play Philadelphia Eagles on Monday, so they are still 8-4.   Watched one San Diego State basketball game and they beat Utah Valley University, so they are now 4-3 on the season.
   
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