Monday, October 26, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 25 October 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 25 October 2026). 

1)   Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Family History Roundtable Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday. I reported on Family History Month activities and projects, the Scribe AI tool, MyStories audiobooks, AI webinars, and Muse.ai for photo animation. Several attendees told stories or made presentations about their hobbies.

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

3)  Transcribed the 1761 Deed of Benjamin Wing buying land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts from Samuel Wait 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 Notebook Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver (now 520 videos).

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 75,161 profiles (up 0 from last week)  and 148,189 source citations (up 1).  

10)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,703 DNA matches (up 48 from last week) with 2,232 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 1), with 1 new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 15,048 DNA matches (up 16 from last week) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity; Linda jas 17,042 matches.

11) 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 over 2,860 more views.  Genea-Musings had about 448,000 page views last week and over 1,969,000 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 Friday. Went to the health center for my lab tests. Daughter Lori came to visit on Wednesday nd returned home on Sunday. She helped me around the house, we went out to dinner one night, and went to Huntington Beach on Saturday to see daughter Tami's family. I'm still reading Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson.  

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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