Monday, October 12, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 11 October 2026

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 11 October 2026). 

1)   Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Zoom on Wednesaday and reported on the newsletter, Research Group meeting and Family History Roundtable meeting. Wrote, edited and emailed the CVGS Newsletter to the contact list.

2) Attended the San Diego Genelaogical Society (SDGS) Program Meeting on Saturday with Jim Jackson presenting two talks. 

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

4)  Transcribed the 1841 Lease of Elizabeth H. Smith from Lucy Butterfield for two rooms in Medfield, Massachusetts 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)  Purchased, downloaded, installed and check out the RootsMagic 12 update.  
 
10)  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 (now 506 videos).

11)  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 75,151 profiles (up 0 from last week)  and 148,183 source citations (up 2).  

12)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,596 DNA matches (up 6 from last week) with 2,229 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 0), with one new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 15,018 DNA matches (up 18 from last week) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity.  

13) Wrote 21 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 26 September to 2 October 2026 with 3,710 views.  Genea-Musings had about 489,000 page views last week and over 1,217,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

14)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday.  Still reading  A Cold Heart by Jonathan Kellerman. Watched the Padres games - they were 1-1 this past week in the playoffs and out of the playoffs.  Watched the San Diego State Aztecs football game asd they lost 66-14, so now 2-4. Watched the Chargers game and they lost 23-17 to the Denver Broncos so now 0-5).

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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