Monday, November 9, 2026

Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 8 November 2026

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 8 November 2026). 

1)   Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday and reported on the Newsletter, Research Group and Family History Roundtable.  Wrote, edited and distributed via email the CVGS Newsletter for November 2026. 

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday, with Kathy Fernandes presenting "What's In a Picture."

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

4)  Transcribed the 1767 Deed of Benjamin Wing buying land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts from Increase Allen for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

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)   MyHeritage introduced GAIA (Genealogy AI Agent) and I wrote about one of my experiences exploring the feature in The MyHeritage GAIA (Genealogy AI Agent) Experience -- Willet LaTourette Parentage and Spouse.  

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 (now 534 videos).

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 75,164 profiles (up 0 from last week)  and 148,200 source citations (up 2).  

11)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,768 DNA matches (up 0 from last week) with 2,235 "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 15,119 DNA matches (up 34 from last week) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity; 

12) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was The MyHeritage GAIA (Genealogy AI Agent) Experience -- Willet LaTourette Parentage and Spouse. with over 349 views.  Genea-Musings had about 984,000 page views last week and over 2,875,000 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. Attended the church Men's Bible Study breakfast on Saturday.  Started reading Still Life by Louise Penny.  I watched the SDSU basketball game on Saturday (they won, now 2-0) and the Chargers game on Sunday (they lost to Houston, now 0-8 -- woeful).  

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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