Monday, July 6, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 5 July 2026

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 5 July 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Bopard Meeting and reported on the Newsletter, Research Grtoup and Family History Roundtable.  Wrote, edited and published the July 2026 edition of the CVGS Newsletter.

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

3)  Transcribed the 1830 Deed of Mary Row to Jacob Row in Hunterdon County, New Jersey for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4)  Wrote one Life Memoir for an ancestor, 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: 
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)  Updated my Randy's AI and Genealogy page. Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos 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  my Seaver collateral\family lines 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 75,097 profiles (up 7 from last week)  and 148,063 source citations (up 1).  

12)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,109 DNA matches (up 12 from 28 June) with 2,203  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 0), with no New ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,652 DNA matches (up 28 from 28 June) 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 Emily and Lyle’s Story: Emily’s Birthday Gift, August 1917 (Part 2)  with 420 views.  Genea-Musings had about 108,000 page views last week and over 1,579,000 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. Had 4 fun days with grandson Logan (age 20) who flew in on Friday and left on Tuesday. Still reading Fatal by John Lescroart. Watched some of the 250th anniversary celebrations and World Cup games. Watched the Padres games - they were 1-6 this past week and are 44-45 on the season.  

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