Monday, August 24, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 23 August 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 23 August 2026). 

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Family Histor Roundtable Meeting with 13 in atrendance on Zoom.  Five of us told a story about one of our grandparents, and I reported on creating a "Memories Book" using an app accessing Family Search Family Tree, how to transcribe an audio or video file, and 20 genealogy hacks that every genealogist should know how to use.

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

3)  Transcribed the 1821 Deed of David Kirby to Humphry Kirby for land in Bristol County, Massachusetts 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: 
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 maternal grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
8)  Housekeeping -- updated my Randy's AI and Genealogy page and added to the AI-assisted story  compendiums. Added a number of the recent Google NotebookLM Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver.

9)  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 75,121 profiles (up 2 from last week)  and 148,091 source citations (up 11).  

10)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,421 DNA matches (up 36 from 16 August) with 2,221  "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 14,834 DNA matches (up 32 from 16  August) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity.  

11) 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 Describe A Day In the Life of Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp in October 1872 in Norfolk County, Ontario with 326 views.  Genea-Musings had about 136,000 page views last week and over 1,510,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

12)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Thursday. Attended the Rohr Engineers luncheon on Thursday and the Rohr Aero/Thermo luncheon on Friday to see former colleagues. Went to the Padres game on Sunday with a group from my financial advisor -- Padres won. Continued reading The Attorney by Steve Martini. Watched the Padres games - they were 4-2 this past week and are 71-60.

NOTE:  I spent about 30 hours on these genealogy activities this week,  learned quite a bit, and had some genealogy fun!

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