Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 8 March 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 1 March 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board Meeting on Wednesday and reported on the newsletter, Research Group and Family History Roundtable meetings. Wrote, edited and published the March 2026 edition of the CVGS newsletter.

2)  Attended RootsTech 2026 online over three days, and summarized my activities in:

• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2026 - Day 1 (Thursday, 5 March) Activities

• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2026 - Day 2 (Friday, 6 March) Activities
• Randy (Not) at RootsTech 2026 - Day 3 (Saturday, 7 March) Activities

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 25 February to 3 March 2026
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 26 February t o 4 March 2026
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 1 to 7 March 2026

4)  Transcribed a land record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1801 Mortgage Indenture of George and Sarah Wakeman Selling Land in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to Aaron Applegate for $296.

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

• ABC Biography of the Joseph Champlin (1757-1850) and Nancy Kenyon (1765-1833) Family of Rhode Island
  
  
  
• Life Memoir of John Peter Brocke (1826-1891) of Nebraska in 1890

6)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 

• Ask AI: Describe the Life of Henry Arnold White At Age 16 in 1840 in East Killingly, Connecticut
• Ask AI: "Describe Joseph Champlin's Revolutionary War Military Service"
• Ask AI: Describe the Courtship and Marriage of Norman Seaver and Sarah Read in 1755 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

6)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Betty and Fred's Story: February to April 1943

8)  Wrote an AI-assisted family story of my own memories on Genea-Musings and   Substack: 

• Randy's Memories: A Summer In Scandinavia - Part 2: Norway Adventures

9)  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. 

10)  Tried the new Scribe AI  tool on MyHeritage to transcribe, translate, describe and analyze a record or photograph in Trying Out the MyHeritage Scribe AI Tool To Transcribe, Translate, Interpret and Describe An Italian Birth Record.  It worked great!

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,065 DNA matches (up 202 from 1 March) with 2,163 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 8), with three new ThruLines.  Added Notes to three Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic.    MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,241 DNA matches (up 65 from 1 March) 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 74,947 profiles (up 18 from last week)  and 147,973 source citations (up 2).  

13) Wrote 26 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: "Describe Joseph Champlin's Revolutionary War Military Service" with over 370 views.  Genea-Musings had about  292,000 page views last week and over 1,508,000 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. Ran the lawn mower through the hip-high backyard grass/weeds and trimmed the periphery, whew (they grew since last summer)! Had two crowns installed on Thursday by the dentist. Attended the Men's Bible Study on Saturday -- we started a Hebrews study book. Still reading Shock Wave by John Sandford.  The San Diego State Aztecs basketball team was 1-1 last week, so now are 20-10 on the season.   

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