Monday, June 22, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 21 June 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 21 June 2026). 

1)  Moderated and hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS)  Family History Roundtable  Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom.  We heard three family stories about family life, discussed how to find fasmily photographs online or in-person, how to create a Canva presentation with text, images and audio, and future program ideas. 

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

3)  Transcribed a 1815 Mortgage Deed of Philip and Mary Row to Elizabeth Barnet in Hunterdon County, New Jersey for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4)  Wrote no ABC Biographies and one Life Memoir, and posted it 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)  Compiled all of my AI-assisted material into a blog post for the research and writing I've done for my several of my family groups in:
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 75,090 profiles (up 0 from last week)  and 148,060 source citations (up 2).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,059 DNA matches (up 42 from 14 June) with 2,202  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1), with no New ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,616 DNA matches (up 40 from 14 June) for me.  

12) 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 Amanuensis Monday -- 1798 Mortgage Deed of Philip Row to William Abbott in Hunterdon County, New Jersey with 337 views.  Genea-Musings had about 460,000 page views last week and over 2,568,000 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. Went to the CVGS Education class on Tuesday. Still reading Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman. . Watched the Padres games - they were 2-4 this past week and are 39-37 on the season.  

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