Monday, April 20, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 19 April 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 19 April 2026). 

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Family History Roundtable Meeting on Wednesday. Reported on Family Story Writing Guidelines, publishing your story, recording you voice telling a story, and making a video telling your story.  Several attendees wrote and told a story about their childhood. 

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles Interest Group on Saturday, with Colin Whitney present abouty Scotland History and Research.

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



6)  Wrote one ABC Biography and one Life Memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and   Substack:
7)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 
8)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
9)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
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)  Started adding source citations and Event Notes to RootsMagic for my ancestors from the Amanuensis Monday posts.  I fell behind some time ago and need to catch up.

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 75,027 profiles (up 37 from last week)  and 147,994 source citations (up 13).  

13)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,596 DNA matches (up 55 from 12 April) with 2,189 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 4), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,381 DNA matches (up 18 from 12 April) for me. 

14) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was The Golden Shore -- A Schaffner Family Story: Parts 3 and 4 with  over 296 views.  Genea-Musings had about  358,000 page views last week and over 1,765,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

15)  Celebrated my 20th Blogiversary on 15 April with Today is Genea-Musings 20th Blogiversary! Celebrate with Me!!!

16)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Finished and submitted the income taxes using online TurboTax. Went to the medical center lab for my blood test draw. Still reading The Confession by John Grisham.  Watched the Padres games - they were 5-1 this past week and are 15-7 on the season.

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