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MyHeritage’s Record Matches and Discovery Settings - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 days ago
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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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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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 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 ...
Using AI Bots for Programming - Blog comment by lkessler - 4 days ago