Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 19 July 2026

 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) Family History Roundtable Meeting on Zoom. I reported on creating and exporting a GEDCOM File, how to save and preserve your family history, participation in Stories250, and four of us told stories about our mothers. 

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

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 8 to 14 July 2026
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 9 to 15 July 2026
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 12 to 18 July 2026
• Listed new and updated record collections for MyHeritage, Findmypast, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.

3)  Transcribed the 1846 Deed of Cornelius and Mary Feather to Joshua Russell in Mercer County, Pennsylvania 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:

• Life Memoir of Dorothea (Dinkel) Spangler of York, Pennsylvania in 1834
  

5)  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 Rudolf Spangler Family in 1788 in York, Pennsylvania"
• Ask AI: "Describe Sarah Knapp’s Life at Age 14 in Newton, New Jersey in 1832"
• Ask AI: "Describe A Day In the Life of Daughter Clarissa and Son James Hildreth in October 1834"
• Ask AI: "Describe the Life of the Henry White Family in 1874 in East Killingly, Connecticut"

6)  Requested ChatGPT5 to describe a process to save and preserve my genealogy work in:

• Ask AI: "How Can I Pass On My Genealogy Research?" – ChatGPT5 Response
  

7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Ed’s Family Visits Chula Vista, July 1944 (Part 1)

8)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Emily and Lyle’s Story: Lyle’s 26th Birthday Party in 1917 (Part 2)

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)  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 0 from last week)  and 148,071 source citations (up 1).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,160 DNA matches (up 10 from 12 July) with 2,207  "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 14,694 DNA matches (up 24 from 12 Julyne) 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 Life Memoir of Dorothea (Dinkel) Spangler of York, Pennsylvania in 1834 with 315 views.  Genea-Musings had about 91,800 page views last week and over 661,000 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.Lori and Lucas arrived on Thursday night and left Sundsay afternoon -- we had fun and got some decluttering done.  Still reading Double Tap by Steve Martini. Watched the basweball All-Star game and parts of World Cup games. Watched the Padres games - they were 1-2 this past week and are 49-50.

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