MAY 2024 FINDING YOUR IRISH ROOTS

 Our May 1st meeting from 7 - 8 pm at the Hidden Cypress Clubhouse will feature Jim Bowden presenting on "Finding Your Irish Roots".  There was not a video of this presentation nor a handout.

Our next meeting will be in September on the 5th.  

We will be changing our monthly meetings from the first Wednesdays of the month to the first Thursdays of the month at 7 pm at the Hidden Cypress Clubhouse.  Several members had mentioned there were church conflicts on Wednesday nights and we wanted to address that concern.  

Help Sessions will be held through the summer on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights, 6:30 - 8:30 pm as needed.

Keep an eye out for free lectures to be offered this summer.  As always, you are free to utilize several websites within the the Computer Club:  Ancestry Library Edition, Fold 3, Newspapers.com and Irish Roots.  

Have an enjoyable summer!

April 2024 Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy

On April 3rd, the Genealogy SIG watched a pre-approved class taught by Thomas MacEntee and shared by Legacy Family Webinars on "Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy".  

We were not able to share the video link with you, nor the handout, but I took notes and created a handout based on what we heard.

•  Bard is now Gemini. https://gemini.google.com/app
•  There is a free version and an advanced version
• Can upload an article and have it either transcribed or summarized
• Chat GPT/3.5 is free version and run by a non-profit
• The 4.0 version is a paid and much improved
•  Perplexity.ai
• Has sources
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•  Most AI’s use LLM (learning language model)
•  Grammerly can be used to help you compose a written document
• My Heritage Photos – can estimate date, and make face/eyes move
• The 1950 Census transcription was done by AI. Volunteers are now going through and verifying it was done correctly
•  OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is 80% accurate, AI is over
• 90% accurate and constantly improving
• You can ask AI questions like:  
• What was life like in _______________ in __________________year
•  What records can I use to locate an ancestor who arrived at _____________ in ___________ year

•  AI is constantly updating
• Future uses for AI in Genealogy are:
•  DNA Triangulation tools, i.e. Banyan dna
• Ability to convert documents from one language to another
• Source citations
•  Use historical newspapers more efficiently
• Identify ancestors in old photos
• Suggest records to explore to expand your searches

MARCH 2024 Genealogy Afterlife - What do you leave behind?

 On March 6th Lynn Baker presented on "Genealogy Afterlife - What do you leave behind.

For the video presentation click on here:  https://youtu.be/MvmF35XCHbg

For a copy of the handouts, click below:

Digital Afterlife Handout

https://docs.google.com/document/d/102An5Be6BsC4OSUSwX9Qs6JU1XY7Bq--BycY1q_iEeQ/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Assets Checklist

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YKdWZamHeBXLt09WOb1aCgbWgk1le299/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105843865531829270717&rtpof=true&sd=true

Digital Asset List

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y3r7OZ_E3NbR5uFWoDxwhelTpZhCDran/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105843865531829270717&rtpof=true&sd=true

Personal Digital Asset List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oy14PdsGdS4wp_0jTnao-loBkRwxJ2uD/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105843865531829270717&rtpof=true&sd=true