Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 15 February 2026).
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Family History Roundtable meeting on Wednesday with 16 in attendance. We discussed how to organize your genealogy digital files, how to find specific files in your computer files, Substack for writers, and five attendees told their story sbout their education.
2) Attended and was a panelist on Mondays With Myrt, and we discussed Cheri Hudson Passey's book Genealogy In Reverse and going to RootsTech 2026.
3) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
4) Transcribed a mortgage released for Amanuensis Monday in Amanuensis Monday -- 1788 Land Deed of Alexander Robertson to Dirck Lefferts For Land in Ballston, Albany County, New York That George Wakeman Had Mortgaged In 1776.
5) Wrote no ABC Biographies and one Life Memoir, and posted it on Genea-Musings and Substack:
6) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
- David Jackson Carringer’s Life at Age 20 in 1849 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- Ask AI: The Lyle Carringer Family Visits the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition
- Ask AI: Describe Brita Olsdatter's Life At Age 16 in Eimstad, Voss, Norway in 1835
- Ask AI: Describe Edward Hildreth Courting Sophia Newton in 1852 in Northbrough, Massachusetts
7) Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
8) Wrote an AI-assisted family story of my own memories on Genea-Musings and Substack:
9) Tried two of Steve Little's Custom Prompts to Create GPS-Compliant Reports in:
10) Updated my Randy's AI and Genealogy page. 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 test now has 50,863 DNA matches (up 84 from 15 February) with 2,155 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 3), with one new ThruLines. Added Notes to one Match, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,176 DNA matches (up 26 from 15 February) 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 74,920 profiles (up 6 from last week) and 147,967 source citations (up 11).
13) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Using Steve Little's Genealogy Narrative Assistant V3 to Develop a GPS Compliant Narrative Sketch with over 436 views. Genea-Musings had about 318,000 page views last week and over 1,141,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think).
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. Still reading The Widow by John Grisham. Watched selected Winter Olympic events, especially curling. The San Diego State Aztecs basketball team was 0-2 last week, so now are 18-8 on the season.
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