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Monday, July 27, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 26 July 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 26 July 2026). 

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

2)  Transcribed the 1793 quitclaim Deed of David and Martha Kirby to John Kirby in Bristol County, Massachusetts for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

3)  Wrote one Life Memoir for an ancestor, and posted it on Genea-Musings and  Substack:
4)  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)  Created another compendium for my AI assisted biographies, memoirs, stories and videos for the Auble/Kemp/Knapp/Sovereen ancestors in:
9)  Housekeeping -- updated my Randy's AI and Genealogy page. Transferred the last two months of AI files to my AI file folders from Downloads.  Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.

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 75,119 profiles (up 12 from last week)  and 148,072 source citations (up 1).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,253 DNA matches (up 93 from 19 July) with 2,214  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 7), with 9 New ThruLines.  Added Notes to 2 Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,746 DNA matches (up 52 from 19 July) for me.  

12) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Ask AI: "Describe 20 AI Use Cases For Genealogists and Family Historians" - Anthropic Claude's Response with 351 views.  Genea-Musings had about 255,000 page views last week and over 637,000 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. Called junk dealer for about 25% of the garage stuff -- almost filled up their truck -- still plenty to sort and trash/donate/save.  Still reading Double Tap by Steve Martini. Watched parts of World Cup games. Watched the Padres games - they were 4-3 this past week and are 53-53.

14)  I greatly enjoy doing this genealogy work every week. It provides me more information about my ancestors and their lives, enhances my knowledge base and analysis capabilities, and keeps me away from doing nothing, dozing off in my recliner, watching TV news and sports, or scrolling on my phone 16 hours a day.  For this past week, I estimate that I worked on genealogy for about 30 to 35 hours (for the record, I did the nothing/dozing/TV/scrolling about 50 to 60 hours).  Sleeping, eating, shopping and visiting take another 60-70 hours each week. 

Just for fun, I asked Google NotebookLM to create a video overview of this post -- here it is (also on my YouTube channel here):  


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