Monday, January 19, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 18 January 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 18 January 2026).  Just like that, 2026 is 5% over.

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group meeting on Zoom. Reported on RootsTech 2026, Finding Your Roots, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, Nathan Goodwin's new book, Ancestry AI Stories, FamilySearch SimpleSearch, MyHeritage Traits, new books, and more.  Also showed how turning the NotebookLM Slide Deck into Google Slides into a narrated Google Vids slide show works. 

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


4)  Wrote two Life Memoirs and two ABC Biographies, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
6)  Wrote an AI-assisted short stories about my parents romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
7)  Started a compendium of my America 250 blog posts in My America 250 Minutes Compendium - Posts About My Revolutionary War Ancestors.

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

9)  My AncestryDNA test now has 50,466 DNA matches (up 38 from 11 January) with 2,144 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1), with one new ThruLines.  Added Notes to one Match, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.    MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,045 DNA matches (up 21 from 11 January) for me. 

10)  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 74,869 profiles (down 7 from last week - I found some duplicates)  and 147,939 source citations (up 5).  

11) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Ancestry.com Has a New Full-Text Search and Transcription Feature with over 564 views.  Genea-Musings had about 137,000 page views last week and over 375,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear). 

12)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Had two basal cell carcinomas on my face removed on Monday. Daughter Lori visited Thursday to Sunday, helping me with clutter, yard and cooking. Finished reading Sins of the Fathers by J.A. Vance, and continued  reading 23-1/2 Lies by James Patterson again. Watched the NFL playoff games. The San Diego State Aztecs basketball team won two games, so now 13-4 on the season.
   
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