Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 14 December 2025

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 14 December 2025).  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Holiday Celebration luncheon on Wednesday at the Bonita Museum, and had a good time. We talked, ate deli sandwiches, fruit, salads and desserts, played a game of "guess whose baby picture this is," and had our gift exhange. I got a Nathan Dylan Goodwin book that I've already read, so will regift it next year. 

2)  Attended the "Navigating the AI Frontier: AI's Impact on Genealogy" Zoom meeting sponsored by NGS on Wednesday with Steve Little and a panel of AI experts. 

3)  Transcribed the 1690 Mortgage Deed of Shubael  Seaver selling a messuage and land in Roxbury, Mass. to George Clarke for 25 pounds with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4)  Wrote a genealogical sketches of one of my wife Linda's ancestral couples in:

• Genealogical Sketch of the Herman Schaffner (1851-1921) and Mary Ann Paul (1854-1908) Family of San Francisco

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 3 to 9 December 2025
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 4 to 10 December 2025
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 7 to 13 December 2025

6)  Wrote one "ABC Biographies" using my AI-assisted "Ancestor Biography Creation" process,  and one Life Memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:

• ABC Biography of Torger Sjursen Leland (1850-1933) and Anna Ellingsdatter Natvig (1853-1911) Family of Norway, Wisconsin, Montana and California
• Life Memories of Torger Sjursen Leland (1850-1933) in 1932 – A Life Memo

7)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 

• Ask AI: Describe Severt Leland's Life At Age 13 in Deerfield, Wisconsin in 1891
• Ask AI: Describe Edna McKnew's Life At Age 13 in San Francisco, California in 1897
• Ask AI: Describe Torger Sjursen's Life At Age 15 in Deerfield, Wisconsin in 1865

8)  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 Summer of the Chargers."

9)  Wrote an AI-assisted short stories about my parents on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Betty and Fred's Story: Winter 1941/2 ... and Waiting

10)  Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver. 

11)  My AncestryDNA now has 50,262 DNA matches (up 70 from 7 December) with 2,136 "close" matches today (up 5), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.  MyHeritageDNA now has 13,961 DNA matches (up 17 from 7 December) 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 74,841 profiles (up 24 from last week)  and 147,929 source citations (up 4).  

13) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Life Memories of Torger Sjursen Leland (1850-1933) in 1932 – A Life Memoir with over 290 views.  Genea-Musings had about 120,000 page views last week and over 416,000 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.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Attended the CVGS Holiday Celebration luncheon on Wednesday. Still reading The Hop-Picker Murders by Nathan Dylan Goodwin.  My Chargers beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday, and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, so they are now 10-4.   Watched one San Diego State basketball game and they beat Lamar, so they are now 5-3 on the season.

   

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