Monday, June 1, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 31 May 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 31 May 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS)  General Meeting on Wednesday.  Tina Beaird presented "Grandma Nellie’s Scrapbook: Identifying and Interpreting Historic Photographs."

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

3)  Transcribed a land deed for John Underhill with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search in Amanuensis Monday -- 1801 Deed of John Underhill Selling Land in Rckingham County, New Hampshire To Mary Brown.

4)  Wrote one Life Memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and   Substack:
5)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 
6)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
8)  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. 

9)  Spent more time capturing Amanuensis Monday post sources and text to my RootsMagic profiles. I'm working my way back in time -- now back to February 2025.  There are plenty more to capture. 

10)  Received an "Award of Merit" from the National Genelaogical Society conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  I wasn't there but they mailed the framed certificate.  Thank you, NGS and colleagues.

11)  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 75,069 profiles (up 13 from last week)  and 148,049 source citations (up 11).  

12)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,528 DNA matches (up 70 from 24 May) with 2,191 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1), with three new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,533 DNA matches (up 37 from 24 May) for me. 

13) 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 Ask AI: "Describe Rudolf Spangler's Revolutionary War Military Service"  with 319 views.  Genea-Musings had about 633,000 page views last week and over 2,266,000 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. Finished reading Woman of God by James Patterson and started The Wall by John Lescroart. Watched the Padres games - they were 1-53 this past week (ouch!) and are 32-26 on the season.  

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