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Replacing My Photo Management/Organizing Tools - Blog comment by elguinioul - 15 Jan 2025
Hello .
Thanks for you article.
I did about the same …
Tried digikam for some times, then tried Mylio and stayed on it for a while, the main reason was : much more user friendly than Digikam and by extension much more usable.
But… I recently replaced my computer and then the « mylio ...
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Continuing Education 2024 - Blog entry by lkessler - 1 Jan 2025
A few years ago, the Association of Professional Genealogists @APGgenealogy started requiring that members report at least 12 hours of Continuing Education each year. I found the task of listing my CE time quite interesting and have posted them each year. Below is my Continuing Education activity list ...
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Programmers Solve Problems Like Genealogists Do - Blog entry by lkessler - 8 Dec 2024
I’m working hard on Behold to get Version 0.99.1 Beta released. It will include GEDCOM export which I think will make it a valuable tool for many genealogists. It has been taking longer to finish the GEDCOM export than I had hoped, partly because of opportunities to work on my own genealogy (which I don’t ...
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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by lkessler - 16 Nov 2024
Thank you, Dana, for reposting your comment on my blog post. Dana originally made this comment on the Facebook group: Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) when I referred to this blog post.
This was my response to Dana:
Hi Dana. I took a SLIG course on reading Russian documents a few years ago, and ...
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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog comment by genealogy with dana leeds - 16 Nov 2024
Do you read Russian and could you verify this? As we all know, AIs hallucinate, so we need to be careful. 🙂
I tried the same document with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and the results were similar, though! I also found these notes it gave me interesting:
A few notes about the translation:
✔️The Russian has ...
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Success at Transcribing Russian Handwriting with AI! - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Nov 2024
Back in February, I wrote Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting?. I tried the tool Transkribus which looked promising, but did not do well at all. I forgot all about this until I started working with my sister’s niece Kim on my sister’s husband’s genealogy. Kim successfully used the ...
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FamilySearch CETs - Blog entry by lkessler - 13 Nov 2024
Here’s something new for those who would like to try it. FamilySearch has for a long time allowed uploads of private trees to its space called Genealogies.Those trees were searchable by others but were not editable. To update them, you had to upload a new tree. Quietly, FamilySearch has started a new ...
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RootsTech Day 1 - Blog comment by easygenogram - 24 Oct 2024
It sounds like you had a fantastic experience at the conference, connecting with key figures in the genealogy community and learning about the latest tools and updates! If you're interested in taking your family history research to the next level, I highly recommend checking out Qwoach’s EasyGenogram Tool. ...
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What’s Your CC7? - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Sep 2024
If you’re not a recent user of WikiTree, you might not be familiar with the term CC7. It stands for Connection Count at 7 Degrees. One “Degree” at WikiTree is defined to be a connection to a parent, sibling, child or spouse. Your connections up to 7 degrees are your shortest path to any other person. ...
Replacing My Photo Management/Organizing Tools - Blog comment by lkessler - 15 Jan 2025