Ancestor Bios: The "ABC" Process with Randy Seaver Presentation

 I had some genealogy fun on 12 June presenting my "Ancestor Biography Creation" Process in a Zoom meeting hosted on Substack by Barbara at Projectkin on her publication.

Barbara Tien is a wonderful host, and she has summarized the presentation and provided the syllabus for the talk in her Substack post titled Special » Ancestor Bios: The “ABC” Process with Randy Seaver.

It is also on the Projectkin YouTube channel (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp8ml7l-k_4):

Substack has become a writer's haven over the years providing a relatively simple blog layout for writers to post their work, for free or for paid subscribers.  

Along with many other genealogists and family historians, I have started using Substack to share my family stories (both with and without artificial intelligence assistance).  My Substack publication is  https://substack.com/@geneaholic.  

Most of my Substack posts are from my posts here on Genea-Musings.  I am not re-posting everything from Genea-Musings as a "Substack Post"because every Post is sent to every subscriber after it is written.  I'm trying to limit myself to "stories" and one Post a day so as to not inundate my subscribers email boxes with non-story articles.  Posts on Substack can embed audio clips and video clip.  A "Substack Note" can be used to highlight news, comment on Posts, etc.  Readers can chat with writers in the Chat section.  

There is a different set of genealogists, family historians, and writers on Substack who I am becoming familiar with, and they with me.  It's been fun!  The "Genealogy/Family History Writer World" is a lot bigger than Blogger, or Wordpress, or other social media.

Thank you to Barbara Tien at Projectkin for encouraging me to do this presentation and for hosting it.  I haven't done many presentations recently, so I was a bit rusty, but I think it said what I wanted to pass along to the viewers.  

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My Interview on Projectkin and the Upcoming Zoom Meeting About ABC Biographies

 I was honored by Barbara Tien (Barbara on Projectkin) with an interview on Substack Live on Sunday, 8 June.  I used my iPhone to connect with Barbara to make the video, and Barbara then puts it on YouTube.  

Barbara showed and reviewed the above video in her Substack post Projectkin Live: This week—“ABC” Ancestor Bios with Randy Seaver.

You can also watch it on YouTube at Projectkin Live: This week—“ABC” Ancestor Bios with Randy Seaver.

I tried to explain without showing any screens how I'm using AI assistance to create Ancestor Biographies of my ancestors.  An example of the ABC Biography result is in ABC Biography of #20 James Richman/Richmond (1821-1912) of Wiltshire and New England.

On Thursday, 12 June, at 10 a.m. Pacific (11 a.m. Mountain, noon Central, 1 p.m. Eastern) Barbara will host a special Zoom meeting where I can provide a more organized description and demonstration of what I'm doing to create an engaging life history, a poem, a song, an audio overview, and even social history and historical fiction for a specific ancestor.  

You can register to watch this event on Barbara's event page on Substack - see   https://tockify.com/eventscalendar/detail/92/1749747600000?startms=1748761200000 for more information. 

Register here for your free Zoom link to the event.

The video of this event will also be on Barbara's YouTube channel and on my channel too after the event. 

Barbara's event description includes:

As we explore family history, many of us have started to take advantage of the latest technologies. LLMs, facial recognition, and other AI tools help us research the facts and then turn what we learn into biographies, sketches, or profiles of each ancestor. How we use these pieces in our projects will vary, but they're foundational to genealogy. 

Randy Seaver, a retired aerospace engineer and genealogist, has developed a structured method for simplifying the creation of ancestor biographies by leveraging AI tools. During this program, Randy will share the recipe for his “ABC Process.” 

You can read more of his posts about the process and his vision for it in his post, “Using Artificial Intelligence In the Ancestor Biography Creation (ABC) Process” for GeneaMusings. 

This program is free, but please register here to get your personalized Zoom link. 

In recent months, Randy has become active on Substack as @Geneaholic, but he is likely best known for GeneaMusings.com, where he has been posting on Blogger since 2006.

Everyone is welcome. Link details will be emailed to you with your registration confirmation.

I'm having great genealogy fun getting into good trouble.

Thank you to Barbara for her expertise in leading and organizing  Projectkin and hosting the Substack Live and Zoom videos. 

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