Monday, June 15, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 14 June 2026

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 14 June 2026). 

1)  Moderated and hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS)  Research Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom.  We discussed AI tools on Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch; Homestead records; new books; the America250 celebration online; using Relative Finder; and reviewed the Ancestry.com website features.

2)  Attened the San Diego Genealogical Society program meeting and Ice Cream Social in-person and had a good time. Christine Cohen presente3d programsw on Cemetery websites and Divorce records. The ice cream sundae was pretty good!

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

4)  Transcribed a 1798 Mortgage Deed of Philip Row to William Abbott in Hunterdon County, New Jersey for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

5)  Wrote no ABC Biographies and two Life Memoir, and posted them on Genea-Musings and   Substack:
7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
8)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
9)  Wriote Can an AI Browser Agent Create an NEHG Register-Style Family History Report From Research Notes? to test out the capability.

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)  Compiled all of my AI-assisted material into a blog post for the research and writing I've done for my wife's Schaffner family lines back through 2nd great-grandparents in:
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 75,090 profiles (up 4 from last week)  and 148,058 source citations (up 6).  

13)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,017 DNA matches (up 40 from 7 June) with 2,201  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 2), with one New ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,576 DNA matches (up 33 from 7 June) for me.  

14) Wrote 23 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 Philip Jacob König of York, Pennsylvania, a Revolutionary War Soldier, in 1791 with 351 views.  Genea-Musings had about 496,000 page views last week and over 2,548,000 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 church on Sunday to celebrate the 70th anniversary -- saw lots of friends. Finished reading The Wall by John Lescroart, and started reading Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman. . Watched the Padres games - they were 4-2 this past week and are 37-33 on the season.  

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