Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 5 July 2026).
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group Meeting. I reported on The new Genealogy Asistant version, the new GEDMatch website, genealogy subscription websites, advanced education opportunities, and Steve Little's Genealogical Research Assistant, plus some of my own work. We reviewed the MyHeritage website, and then discussed the progress we made in the past month.
2) Participated in Barbara Tien's Stories250 webinar, and discussed my story about Norman Seaver's return home from the Lexington Alarm in 1775.
3) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
- Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 1 to 7 July 2026
- Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 2 to 8 July 2026
- Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 5 to 11 July 2026
- Listed new and updated record collections for MyHeritage, Findmypast, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.
4) Transcribed the 1818 Deed of Jacob, Elizabeth and John Row to Jonathan Potter in Hunterdon County, New Jersey for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.
5) Wrote one Life Memoir for an ancestor, and posted it on Genea-Musings and Substack:
6) Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack:
- Ask AI: "Describe the Life of the Thomas Dill Family in 1805 in Eastham, Massachusetts"
- Ask AI: "Describe the Life of Abigail Vaux (1844-1931) in Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1858"
- Ask AI: "Describe a Day In the Life of Zachariah and Hannah (Sawtell) Hildreth in October 1834"
- Ask AI: "Describe the Life of the Paul Schaffner Family of San Francisco in 1926"
7) Requested ChatGPT5 to write a poem and song lyrics in The Genealogist's ABCs - An AI-assisted ChatGPT Poem and Song Just another tune for my initial genea-music album.
8) Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
9) Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
10) 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.
11) 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:
12) Used the Genealogical Research Assistant in Google Gemini 3 and an Anthropic Claude Skill to describe and analyze an ancestor's death certificate accordingt to the Genealogical Proof Standard in Using Steve Little's Genealogical Research Assistant (V. 8.5.1c) To Evaluate a Death Certificate.
13) 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 75,107 profiles (up 10 from last week) and 148,070 source citations (up 7).
14) My AncestryDNA test now has 52,150 DNA matches (up 41 from 5 July) with 2,205 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 2), with no New ThruLines. Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,670 DNA matches (up 18 from 5 Julyne) for me.
15) 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 Amanuensis Monday -- 1830 Deed of Mary Row to Jacob Row for Land in Hunterdon County, New Jersey with 357 views. Genea-Musings had about 96,500 page views last week and over 1,102,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think).
16) Real life events: Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility. Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Attended the church Men's Group breakfast on Saturday. Finished reading Fatal by John Lescroart and started Double Tap by Steve Martini. Watched some of the 250th anniversary celebrations and World Cup games. Watched the Padres games - they were 4-3 this past week and are 48-48 on the season at the All-Star break.
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