Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 24 May 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 24 May 2026). 

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS)  Family History Roundtable  Meeting on Wednesday.  We discussed the homework ("list ten family history stories that you can tell"), a demonstration of using AI to summarize text, audio, videeo and webinars, and how to downlad a file from the internet as a PDF.  

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 13 to 19 May 2026
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 14 to 20 May 2026
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 17 to 23 May 2026
• Listed new and updated record collections for MyHeritage, Findmypast, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.

3)  Transcribed a land deed for John Underhill with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search in Amanuensis Monday -- 1791 Deed of John Underhill Jr. Selling Land in Rockingham County, New Hampshire To John Quinby.

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

• ABC Biography of the Rudolf and Dorothea (Dinkel) Spangler Family of York, Pennsylvania (1738-1835)
  
  
  
• Life Memoir of Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) of Massachusetts In 1807

5)  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 Devier Smith Family in 1886 in McCook, Nebraska"
  
  
  
• Ask AI: "Describe the Courtship of Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle in Lancashire in the Late 1830s" (Parts 3 to 5)
• Ask AI: "Describe The Courtship and Marriage of James and Hannah (Rich) Richman of Hilperton, Wiltshire in 1845"

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

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Late December 1943 to Early January 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Fred’s Christmas 1943 Letter

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

• Emily and Lyle’s Story: Letters From Boot Camp – Part 3, Weeks 5 and 6, June 1917

8)  Asked Anthropic Claude to write a poem "The Genealogist's Quest" and Suno put it to music, and made a one slide Canva video presentation with the song and posdted it on YouTube - see An AI Poem Set To Music: "The Genealogist's Quest."

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)  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 75,056 profiles (up 8 from last week)  and 148,038 source citations (up 15).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,858 DNA matches (up 38 from 17 May) with 2,198 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 3), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to 10 Matches, and added one new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,496 DNA matches (up 36 from 17 May) for me. 

12) 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 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) of Massachusetts In 1807 with 348 view.  Genea-Musings had about 458,000 page views last week and over 2,432,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

13)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Bought new tires for the car. Continued reading Woman of God by James Patterson. Watched the Indy 500 on Sunday. Watched the Padres games - they were 3-3 this past week and are 31-21 on the season.  

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