Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 6 September 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 10-page CVGS Newsletter on Sunday.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) DNA SIG meeting on Zoom on Saturday, with Colin Whitney presenting "Genetic Communities and Ethnicity."
3) Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:
- Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 26 August to 1 September 2026
- Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 27 August to 2 September 2026
- Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 30 August to 5 September 2026
- Listed new and updated record collections for MyHeritage, Findmypast, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.
4) Transcribed the 1745 Deed of Benjamin Wing selling land in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts to Job Case 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:
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 Notebook 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 75,124 profiles (up 3 from last week) and 148,118 source citations (up 3).
11) My AncestryDNA test now has 52,467 DNA matches (up 11 from 30 August) with 2,222 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 0), with no new ThruLines. Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 14,899 DNA matches (up 35 from 30 August) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity.
12) 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 A Day In the Life of the Benjamin Seaver Family in Westminster, Massachusetts in 1800 with 252 views. Genea-Musings had about 102,000 page views last week and over 1,001,000 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 root canal doctor -- two to do soon. Still reading Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman. Watched the Padres games - they were 3-3 this past week and are 75-68.
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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