<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">Need to </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">unsubscribe</a><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:georgia,serif">?</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** Intro Price on Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant--Consult Yourself</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** Intro Price Ending on Metes and Bounds with AI</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align:initial;background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">** Recorded Webinars</font></span></div><div><br></div><br><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large;font-weight:700;text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap">Using AI as a Genealogy Consultant</span></div><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:center;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><u><b>Our approach is to always use AI responsibly and practically a</b></u></i><font color="#000000"><i><font size="4"><b>s your own genealogy consultant.</b></font></i></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maybe you can\u2019t afford a consultant for your own research or you have too many genealogy problems to hire help with every one. AI can serve as your own genealogy research consultant. </span></p><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As with a human consultant, you\u2019ll need to do the initial work on your ancestor, gather what you have, and familiarize yourself with basic sources in the area. There is no guarantee that AI will solve your problem. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But using AI as your personal research consultant can help. Not by doing the research for you, or inventing ancestors that never existed, but by doing what a good consultant actually does: looking at what you have, summarizing it, discussing it, and giving you ideas on where to look next or to help you see things in a different way. It may even tell you where you need to go to improve your research skills. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After using AI, you still may decide to use a human consultant. The work you did with AI will help you prepare to get the most from that advice from a real person and to make the best use of your time and money should that be necessary. We acknowledge in this presentation and approach that AI does not know everything, is not perfect, and cannot solve every problem. It\u2019s just another tool. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You'll see how to frame a research problem so AI gives you something useful instead of something vague. You'll learn to recognize when it's guessing, because it will, and how to catch hallucinations and how to use AI in a discerning fashion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The goal isn't to replace your judgment. It's to give you a thinking partner available at two in the morning when you finally realize you need to get outside your own mind on a certain ancestral problem. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3SJCPREXK5EUC" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pre-order the presentation now.</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Release date:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 25 September</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Price:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> $15.99</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Includes the full presentation, a detailed handout, and a ready-to-use set of prompts you can adapt to your own research problems.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><br></p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i>Metes and Bounds have you confused?</i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><i>If you missed the early-bird price there's still time.</i></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><span id="m_-413652262297171154m_-112295856351205830m_-7592508208758820861m_-5731527410213922142m_2443303823353368425m_349543576948851678m_5330640086014531507m_6499408055550427473m_-5361775229994898281m_1564474532372072231m_-7180068898874562806m_-2572807263328178486m_-626108274527302353gmail-docs-internal-guid-eed63b96-7fff-82a5-6136-a9aea8fe7d9f"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Using AI for Metes and Bounds Deed Analysis--to be released 18 September</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">-------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">A completely new presentation!</font></div><div>and there's still time to get it at the introductory price</div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Using AI for Metes and Bounds Deed Analysis</i></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_msvf9x2o0" alt="image.png" width="478" height="127" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do deeds with metes and bounds descriptions give you headaches? You are not alone. We will see how to use AI to help with drawing properties, analyzing deed transactions, noticing patterns, and more. Our presentation is easy-to-follow, down-to-earth, and practical. This presentation is not about how to find land records. We will assume you already know how to do that.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_msvf9x2r1" alt="image.png" width="313" height="288" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics covered will include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Using AI to work with metes and bounds descriptions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Manual versus AI transcriptions</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fitting parcels together</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Viewing acquisitions and sales over time</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Creating ownership chronologies</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants are encouraged to send Michael a limited number of questions after they have viewed the presentation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Revised release date is 18 September 2026. </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WZ7W2VTNUFRM6" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pre-order price $21</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Post-release price $27.00. Handout included which will include commentary and prompts that were used. The presentation is approximately an hour long and can be viewed more than once.. </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WZ7W2VTNUFRM6" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Order yours today</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Don\u2019t wait as we tend to forget.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Michael: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael John Neill has actively researched his genealogy since the early 1980s. He has given genealogy lectures at a variety of national and small conferences since the 1990s. Michael has a master\u2019s degree in mathematics and taught mathematics at a community college for thirty years. He has led research trips to the FamilySearch Library for over twenty years. </span></p></font></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";background-color:transparent">--------------------</span></p><div><font color="#46707f" face="georgia, serif" size="4">Webinars</font></div><div><font color="#46707f" face="Open Sans"><span style="font-size:16px">--------------------</span></font></div><div><font color="#46707f" face="Open Sans"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ready-to-Go Webinars from Michael\u2013download immediate:</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(23,37,42);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/creating-childrens-stories-from-genealogy-information/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Creating Children\u2019s Stories from Genealogy Events</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/creating-families-from-pre-1850-census-records/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Creating Families from pre-1850 Census Records</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/deedmapper-intro-and-more-deedmapper-webinars/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">DeedMapper webinars</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/19/using-the-familysearch-catalog-webinar/" target="_blank">FamilySearch Catalog</a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/rooting-around-for-farmers-and-tenants-and-laborers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Farming Ancestor webinars\u2013landowner and non-landowner versions</span></a></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a 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