Monday, August 10, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 9 August 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 9 August 2026). 

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Wednesday and reported on the Newsletter, Research Group meeting and Family History Roundtable meeting.  Wrote, edited and published the August 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 1793 quitclaim Deed of David Kirby to John Kirby 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: 
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 maternal grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:
9)  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.

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 0 from last week)  and 148,077 source citations (up 2).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,343 DNA matches (up 35 from 2 August) with 2,220  "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1), with no new ThruLines.  Added Notes to one Match, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,799 DNA matches (up 26 from 2 August) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity.  

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 Emily and Lyle’s Story: Ordinary Days, January and February 1918 with 282 views.  Genea-Musings had about 536,000 page views last week and over 1,328,000 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. Went to the memorial service and church reception on Saturday for my friend Tomi Finch. Still reading Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman. Watched the Padres games - they were 4-3 this past week and are 62-57.

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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