Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 3 May 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 3 May 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting on Wednesday with Thomas MacEntee presenting "The 15 Habits of Frugal Genealogists."  

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday with Kathy Fernandes discussing "Genetic Networks."

3)  Patricipated in the Monday, 27 April Mondays With Myrt program. We discussed the Association of Genealogy Educatiors and Schools (AGES), my ABC Biography process, and using software to write a genealogical proof statement/argument, etc. 

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 22 to 28 April 2026
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 23 to 29 April 2026
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 26 April to 2 May 2026
• Listed new and updated record collections for Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch.

5)  Foiunbd a number of land deeds for John Underhill on FamilySearch Full-Text Search, and transcribed a land record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1801 Deed of John Underhill Buying Land in Cheshire County, New Hampshire From Nathaniel Garland.

6)  Researched and wrote  Genealogical Sketch of the John Underhill (1745-1816) and Hannah Colby (1750-1793) Family of Chester and Plainfield, New Hampshire.

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

• ABC Biography of the John and Hannah (Colby) Underhill Family of New Hampshire (1745-1816)
  
• Life Memoir of Elling Eriksen Natvig (1820-1896) of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin in 1895

8)  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 the Isaac Seaver Family In Leominster, Mass. in 1873" -- Part 1
  
• Ask AI: The U.S. Marine Reserves and Lyle Carringer's Service in 1917-1919
• Ask AI: "Describe Della Smith's Life At Age 14 in 1876 in Kansas"
• Ask AI: "Describe the Life of the David Jackson Carringer Family in 1886 in Boulder, Colorado

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

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Thanksgiving 1943

10)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Emily and Lyle’s Story: The Promise Made

11)  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. 

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 75,032 profiles (up 5 from last week)  and 148,005 source citations (up 9).  Added some land deeds and biographies to some profiles in RootsMagic from Genea-Musings posts.

13)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,726 DNA matches (up 47 from 26 April) with 2,193 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 2), with 4 new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,435 DNA matches (up 35 from 26 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 Life Memoir of Elling Eriksen Natvig (1820-1896) of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin in 1895 with  over 293 views.  Genea-Musings had about 827,000 page views last week and over 2,725,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

15)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the church Men's Group Bible Study breakfast on Saturday. Finished reading The Confession by John Grisham, and started The Waiting by Michael Connelly.  Watched the Padres games - they were 2-4 this past week and are 20-13 on the season.  

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