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Using AI Bots for Programming - Blog comment by trevithick - 24 Mar 2025
I am happy to hear that v2 is still in the works.
I own Office 2021 which you would think would incorporate CoPilot, but it does not. You must use Office 365.
A while back, I was playing with some Python code on my Raspberry Pi, and could not figure it out so I asked ChatGPT to code it for me. After ...
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MyHeritage’s Record Matches and Discovery Settings - Blog entry by lkessler - 23 Mar 2025
One of the best reasons to have your family tree on one of the major online sites MyHeritage, Ancestry or FamilySearch, is because of their record matching systems. They will go out and find records for the individuals in your tree from among the billions of records in their collections and make them available ...
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Using AI Bots for Programming - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Mar 2025
I’m working hard on Version 2 of Behold, and I needed to write some code to strip out HTML from a string. This would be so Behold could display the text embedded in the HTML correctly without formatting. Since I’m a Windows and Office 360 aficionado, I get a version of Microsoft’s AI bot named Copilot ...
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RootsTech 2025 - Blog entry by lkessler - 8 Mar 2025
Over the past 3 days, RootsTech took place in Salt Lake City. RootsTech is the largest annual genealogy conference in the world, with tens of thousands of in person attendees and several million online attendees. I went to RootsTech in person three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2017. In 2018. RootsTech started ...
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GEDCOM Assessment - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Feb 2025
deecee: Unfortunately, Wayback does not save everything.
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GEDCOM Assessment - Blog comment by deecee - 2 Feb 2025
January 2025: the images.zip file (https://gedcomassessment.com/en/images.zip) used with GEDCOM Assessment are not hosted on Wayback.
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Replacing My Photo Management/Organizing Tools - Blog comment by lkessler - 15 Jan 2025
Thank you for your thoughts on the tools you use, elguinioul.
I totally agree with you that the Digikam interface is not the way a modern photo organizing tool should work. Because of that, I have kept looking. I've tried Photools, and most recently Excire.
But for that last couple of months, I've gone ...
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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 ...
Using AI Bots for Programming - Blog comment by lkessler - 6 days ago