Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your 2025 "Dear Genea-Santa" Letter

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

(Photo courtesy of footnoteMaven)

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. Here's your chance to sit on Genea-Santa's lap (virtually) and tell him your Christmas genealogy-oriented wish list:

1) Write your 2025 Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue in your ancestral quest.

2) Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook Status  post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

Dear Genea-Santa,

I tried so hard to be a good genea-boy again this year. I  hosted and moderated Zoom meetings with my local society, wrote and edited my society monthly newsletter, wrote over 1080 blog posts, watched and participated in some Zoom webinars, attended RootsTech 2025 virtually, wrote about 25 genealogical sketches, transcribed about 50 probate records or deeds, and helped several friends and colleagues with their research. In addition, I have added more names, facts, notes, and (especially) sources to my database.  I used the Artificial Intelligence tools to create engaging biographies of 60 of my ancestors and a number of Linda's ancestors, and wrote many ancestor stories -- that was great fun!

Thank you for last year's genealogy gift - my T-shirt with my wife and myself on it was great!  The center of the shirt says "Grandpa's Legacy."  The 8 photos on the front of the shirt include all of my descendants - my two daughters and all five grandchildren.  On the back of the shirt is a photo of Linda and me celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary.

Another gift was the inspiration of the "Magic Genie AI" request that resulted in the AI-assisted ABC Biography concept, combining an engaging biography (based on my research) with a family group image, poem, song, audio overview, video overview, infographic, narrated slide show and YouTube video about an ancestor.  Did you have something to do with that?

Was I a bad genea-boy, or maybe you thought I had enough, or you were out of the other things?  I'll ask for some of them again, and add a few more!  I still BELIEVE!!!!! Come on, Santa, all I want for Christmas in 2025 are:

• One of my descendants (out of two daughters and five grandchildren) becomes interested in their ancestry and family history, and wants to share the fun.  
• More visits from my daughters and grandchildren to me and Linda.  Also, more photos of the daughters and grandchildren living their lives.  
• A new Windows 11 laptop and a new Windows 11 desktop computer. 
• A monthly subscription to Google One so that I can make an unlimited number of deep research requests, infographics, video overviews and slide decks every day.
• An AI agent that will create an ABC Biography with one custom prompt to generate all of the elements of the ABC Biography.  
• More ancestor story ideas to write AI-assisted stories about.
• Solid leads on the parents of William Knapp (1775-1856), Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894), Hannah Smith (1768-1827), Sarah Fletcher (1806-b1850), Mary Palmer (1790-1845), Ann Warren (1764-????), Ann Kenyon (1742-1824), Hannah Brown (1725-1774), and the name of the wife  Stephen Feather (1736-1804),  would be welcome too!  
• Good health and wealth for me and my family, all of my genealogy friends and their families, and for your wife, elves and reindeer.  I feel the sands of time are sifting out of my hourglass.

Thank you, Genea-Santa, for listening to my pleas. I will leave a nice personal meat-lovers pizza in the freezer for you (you can heat it in the kitchen microwave), a rosy red apple and some delicious chocolate chip cookies on the fireplace hearth, and some eggnog (in the refrigerator) for you on Christmas Eve just in case you need fortification. You can get a yummy Dove chocolate ice cream bar out of the freezer for dessert if you'd like. Nothing's too good for Genea-Santa - mi casa es su casa!  Please don't let your reindeer trample my solar panels on the roof.

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