Genealogy Consultations with AI
Maybe you can’t 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.
As with a human consultant, you’ll 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.
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.
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’s just another tool.
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.
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.
Pre-order the presentation now.
Release date: 25 September
Price: $15.99
Includes the full presentation, a detailed handout, and a ready-to-use set of prompts you can adapt to your own research problems.
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