Monday, January 26, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 25 January 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 25 January 2026).  Just like that, 2026 is 5% over.

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Family History Roundtable meeting on Wednesday on Zoom. Reported on and discussed how to create a family history book (free or paid) and showed my current effort on MyStories, how to find historical events and social history material for your stories, and speech to text transcription.  The homework was to tell a story about your favorite ancestor.  I discussed Isaac Buck and showed my narrated slide show biography.  Gail and Jeff described their favorite ancestors in slide shows.

2)  Attended Mondays With Myrt as a panelist on Monday, and we discussed Vivid-Pix Memory Station, Liv's funeral photograph, RootsTech, and reliability of Ancestry and FamilySearch record transcriptions.

3)  Took my first look at the RootsTech 2026 classes and selected about 30 to view online when the time comes.

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



7)  Wrote  two ABC Biographies, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:
0)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
10)  Wrote an AI-assisted family story from the Watchful House on Genea-Musings and   Substack: The Watchful House on 30th Street Remembers: "The Rock and Roll Years."

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

12)  My AncestryDNA test now has 50,544 DNA matches (up 78 from 18 January) with 2,147 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 3), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to one Match, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.    MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,071 DNA matches (up 26 from 18 January) for me. 

13)  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 74,873 profiles (up 4 from last week - I found some duplicates)  and 147,941 source citations (up 2).  

14) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was ABC Biography of United Empire Loyalist John Kemp (1723-1795) and His Wife Anna (Van Vorst) Kemp (1732-1789) of New York and Upper Canada with over 380 views.  Genea-Musings had about 147,000 page views last week and over 454,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear). 

15)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Met Tami and her family in Carlsbad on Monday for lunch and exchanged Christmas gifts.  Continued  reading 23-1/2 Lies by James Patterson. Watched the College Football championshiop game and the NFL playoff games. The San Diego State Aztecs basketball team were 1-1 last week, so now are 14-5 on the season.
   
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