Video Presentation for the Sjur Torgersen and Brita Olsdatter Leland Family of Norway and Wisconsin

 After writing the ABC Biography of the Sjur Torgersen Leland (1804-1889) and Brita Olsdatter (1818-1895) Family of Voss, Norway and Dane County, Wisconsin, I used the Slide Deck created by AI Google NotebookLM to create a Google Slides presentation with narration by Google Vids to summarize their lives.  I added a front slide, an Infographic slide, and a back slide to the NotebookLM Slide Deck to create this video presentation.

Here is the Infographic created by Google NotebookLM for this family: 

Here is the Slide Show for the Sjur Torgersen and Britga Olsdatter Leland Family of Massachusetts:

Sjur Torgersen and Brita Olsdatter Leland are my wife Linda's 2nd great-grandparents. They are her earliest immigrant ancestors from Norway.

The narrated slide show presentation is only 3 minutes and 45 seconds long, yet it describes their lives and achievements succinctly.  There may be minor spelling or content errors on the slides, and the AI tool doesn't do maps perfectly.  I expect that later versions of this tool will be better, and can use my voice for the narration.

Creating this video presentation from the Google NotebookLM Slide Deck, including creating the front and back pages, takes only about 30 minutes of time.  The user needs to master the entire process of creating the genealogical sketch, creating the engaging biography, using Google NotebookLM to create the the slide deck, and creating the narrated slide show presentation using Google Slides and Google Vids.  

This type of video presentation is ideal, in my opinion, for interesting my extended family (daughters, grandchildren, brothers, cousins, etc.) in the lives of their ancestors. It is visual, narrated, and relatively short yet covers all of the important factors in their ancestors lives.

I will add this narrated video presentation to the ABC Biography blog post and also to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver).

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Links to my blog posts about using Artificial Intelligence are on my Randy's AI and Genealogy page. Links to AI information and articles about Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy by other genealogists are on my AI and Genealogy Compendium page.

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