Unlock your family history with the power of AI! Michael John Neill’s presentation, “Genealogy Problem-Solving with Notebook,” provides a comprehensive guide to using Google’s free NotebookLM platform to revolutionize your research.The presentation is down-to-earth, practical, and…not full of AI hype and exaggeration. This session explores how genealogists can upload up to 50 diverse sources—including PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and even audio files—to create a centralized research hub . Neill demonstrates practical applications such as analyzing 1860 census enumerations to identify family structures and migration paths, as well as synthesizing complex War of 1812 bounty land files . Participants will learn to generate high-quality outputs like family history monographs, infographics, and interactive slide decks directly from their documents. Beyond technical setup, the presentation emphasizes responsible AI use. Neill offers […]
In your quest to find genealogical information, artifacts, photographs, and the like have you reached out to living relatives? Or has your search concentrated on what is online–either in databases or trees of other researchers? You may think you have no relatives, but if you are looking for pictures or the like from your third great-grandparents, chances are that you are not the only descendant that couple has. Any of them could have information. And while it may be impractical to reach out to all of them, reaching out to some with the simple question “do you or anyone in your family have old pictures?” may be worth the effort. Everything is not online. Your may have a relative with undigitized photos just waiting to be discovered.
It’s always important to analyze genealogical information as you find it…instead of waiting until you have that big pile stacked with “exciting” discoveries. It can be easy to get caught up in the excitement and sometimes overlook other discoveries or make mistakes along the way. Taking time to analyze helps to reduce the chance of making those errors. That’s one of the things we talk about in “Is Your Process the Problem?” Analyzing and comparing as we find is one of the best ways to prevent heading into an incorrect lineage, connecting people to incorrect spouses, or making other errors. Don’t wait to analyze what you’ve found.
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