Monday, June 8, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 7 June 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 7 June 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS)  Board Meeting on Wednesday and reported on the newsletter, Research Group and Family History Roundtable. Wrote, edited and published the June 2026 Newsletter.

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

3)  Transcribed a GLO land patent for Nicholas Brocke with help from MyHeritage Scribe AI in Amanuensis Monday -- Land Patent of Nicholas Brocke of Latah County, Idaho in 1884. 

4)  Wrote one ABC Biography and one Life Memoir, 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)  Wrote an AI-assisted poem and song (using Claude, Suno and Canva) to describe and cdelebrate the lives of my 9th great-grandparents Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver in:
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)  Compiled all of my AI-assisted material into a blog post for the research and writing I've done for my wife's Leland family back through 2nd great-grandparents in:
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 75,086 profiles (up 17 from last week)  and 148,052 source citations (up 3).  

12)  My AncestryDNA test now has 51,977 DNA matches (up 49 from 31 May) with 2,199 XXXX  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1 XX), with three XXX New ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,543 DNA matches (up 10 from 31 May) for me.  

13) 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 Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together -- January and February 1944 with 364 views.  Genea-Musings had about 538,000 page views last week and over 2,468,000 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. Went to the church Men's Bible Study breakfast on Saturday. Still reading The Wall by John Lescroart. Watched the Padres games - they were 1-5 this past week (ouch!) and are 33-31 on the season.  

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1 comment:

Linda Stufflebean said...

I still can't believe how much you accomplish each week! Kudos!

Monday, June 8, 2026 at 12:01:00 PM PDT

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