Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your Genealogy Highlights For the Last Month?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  1) What genealogy fun have you had this past month?  What is your genealogy research highlight of the past month?  It could be attending or watching a webinar or local genealogy society meeting,  it could be finding a new ancestor, or it could be reading a new genealogy book, or anything else that you have enjoyed.

23)  Share your January genealogy fun in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post.  Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.

Here's mine:

The most genealogy FUN every day is asking AI Anthropic Claude and other LLMs to tell me a story, based on my genealogical research, or "a day in the life" or a "life memoir" about an ancestor or ancestral couple, and then getting an audio overview, a video overview, an infographic and a slide deck using Google NotebookLM.  It never disappoints me, and the insight, perspective and engagement.  For some of my "series" like the "Betty and Fred" series or the "Watchful House" series, I always receive new thoughts and feelings that I would never think of in my engineer-head.  I'm gradually getting enough stories to put together short books for each ancestral couple back to at least 2nd great-grandparents. 

I think the genealogy research highlight in January 2026 was to find information about my 6th cousin George Wakeman (1740-1815) using FamilySearch Full-Text Search - I found deeds in Albany County, New York and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania before he went to Ashtabula County, Ohio.  The last three Amanuensis Monday posts have featured George's deeds and mortgages. I also found out that this bad boy defaulted on a mortgage in Albany Countyafter the Revolutionary War.

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