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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Feb 2024
There’s been a lot of talk the last year or so about the use of Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy. I’ve basically taken a laissez faire wait-and-see attitude towards it. Most of the applications of AI for genealogy are designed to save you time, maybe by drafting out a biography for you or doing image ...
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Continuing Education 2023 - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Dec 2023
Last January, 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 for 2022 quite interesting and last January I posted what I had done. Below is my Continuing Education ...
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Testing Out MyHeritage’s New AI Biographer - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023
My previous post ran through MyHeritage’s new AI Record Finder tool. Now I’m going to try out the other tool MyHeritage released today. You can find their blog post describing the AI Biographer here: Introducing AI Biographer™: Create a Wikipedia-like biography for any ancestor using AI, enriched with ...
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A Quick Attempt of MyHeritage’s New AI Record Finder - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023
You may not have heard of this yet, but MyHeritage has just launched their new AI Record Finder. I got the email from them about it earlier today. Rather than me describe it, you can read about it on MyHeritage’s blog post: Introducing AI Record Finder™, the World’s First AI Chat-Based Search Engine ...
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Ranking Genealogy Websites - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Nov 2023
Here’s a fun activity. Jarrett Ross, the @GeneaVlogger today posted a video where he ranks Genealogy Websites. He uses an interesting site I’ve never seen before called Tiermaker to do this. The site lets you drag and drop genealogy website logos into tiers that can mean whatever you want. The site ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by iowa toni - 25 Nov 2023
Yes. I agree. I've exhausted the matches with any sort of tree beyond 1 person which is like no tree at all. I have not continued my subscription anywhere because I am not finding anything useful. Few people know who their great grandparents were. Those who do have already been examined. After 15 or so years I ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by thebookbloke - 22 Nov 2023
DNA has been/is fun but the payoff for me has been fairly small.
Y-chromosome tests back in 2008 or so showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that my late dad's father really was his father. There had been a small question mark over that. Autosomal tests of cousins, uncles, aunts etc, with various companies, all ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2023
Maybe it isn’t for you, but it likely is for me. I’m not talking about using DNA to find close family members, e.g. if you are adopted or don’t know who a grandparent is. That’s still a big thing. And I’m not talking about forensic genealogy used for finding killers and solving cold cases. That is ...
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023
Bob:
Personally, I would prefer a 25 year old standard that is used by 98% of the intended audience, than an "updated" standard that obviously doesn't have enough advantages to be able to attract more than a handful of developers to implement after more than 2 years.
So something's not working.
If ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog comment by linda - 25 Nov 2023