Monday, January 12, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 11 January 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 11 January 2026).  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board meeting on Zoom and reported on the Research Group, Family History Roundtable and the Newsletter.  Wrote, edited, and pubnlished the CVGS Newsletter on SWunday to the Contact email list. 

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) Seminar on Saturday with Judy G. Russell making four presentations.

3)  Reviewed the four AI presentations on Legacy Family Tree Webinars on Wednesday and downloaded the syllabi.

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


6)  Wrote one Life Memoir and one ABC Biography, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack, in:

7)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 
8)  Posted an AI-assisted story based on my own memories, on Genea-Musings  and   Substack in:
9)  Wrote an AI-assisted short stories about my parents romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
10)  Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos and Slide Shows to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver. 

11)  My AncestryDNA now has 50,428 DNA matches (up 38 from 4 January) with 2,143 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 3), with two new ThruLines (one is probably wrong parents).  Added Notes to two Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.    MyHeritageDNA now has 14,024 DNA matches (up 9 from 4 January) 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 74,876 profiles (up 6 from last week)  and 147,934 source citations (up 2).  

13) Wrote 23 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Ask AI: "Please Summarize Isaac Buck's Revolutionary War Military Service" with over 287 views.  Genea-Musings had about 76,300 page views last week and over 341,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I fear). 

14)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the dentist on Thursday for impressions for the implant tooth. Still reading Sins of the Fathers by J.A. Vance. Watched some of the college football playoffs and bowl games, and the Chargers game on Sunday - they lost to New England and are out of the playoffs. The San Diego State Aztecs basketball team won two games, and I watched, so now 11-4 on the season.
   
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