{"id":30136,"date":"2025-11-04T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=30136"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:46:03","slug":"current-webinars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/current-webinars\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Webinars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">More AI for Genealogy<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com\/cart\/add?product_id=241832&amp;method_id=264116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Order recording<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to requests from attendees, we\u2019re having a follow-up to our recent webinar on using AI for genealogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More detailed prompt suggestions and a discussion of using AI chat for genealogy problem-solving and analysis\u2014while keeping in mind the limitations of AI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Non-English example of transcription and translation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Short case studies based on actual documents and transcriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, our presentation will be practical and easy-to-follow. We assume you already know basic genealogy terminology and methodology. Enhancing&nbsp;sound genealogy practices is our prime directive, not being easily impressed by every new bit of shiny technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Handout included so listeners can focus on understanding and not on taking notes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com\/cart\/add?product_id=241832&amp;method_id=264116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Order now for immediate download<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Using AI\u2019s ChatGPT for Genealogy (Responsibly)<\/strong> <\/span>&nbsp; <br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>There&#8217;s a lot of fun and learning you can do without every creating made up stories. AI is one tool that can really help with your research. &nbsp; We&#8217;ll avoid the hype and leave that to others! &nbsp; <br><br>We\u2019ll use chatbotapp.ai. We will focus on responsibly and creatively using ChatGPT for genealogy with a focus on sound genealogy methodology. Our presentation will be practical, down-to-earth, and usable. &nbsp; There\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>more&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>to using AI than simply having it generate a family history. That\u2019s not what will we do in this presentation. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will look at a variety of ways to use the chatbot to interact with: transcriptions of individual records, groups and sets of transcribed records, PDF scans of records (typed and handwritten) biographies, other genealogical records as time allows. &nbsp; &nbsp; We will focus on using the Chatbot as a research assistant and virtual colleague and not a glorified Google search by an effective creation of questions and by actually interacting with the Chatbot instead of reacting to it. &nbsp; We will see how to&nbsp;<strong>formulate questions<\/strong>&nbsp;to have the Chatbot&nbsp;<strong>perform mundane tedious tasks<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>create summaries<\/strong>&nbsp;and tables,&nbsp;<strong>serve as an online genealogical assistant<\/strong>, and more. &nbsp; The Chatbot will transcribe documents and while imperfect, discussions can be had with the Chatbot to improve the transcription. We will not be discussing using a Chatbot to automatically create a family history or create histories. Our focus will be on using the Chatbot for assistance with other genealogical tasks. &nbsp; We\u2019ll show numerous examples of prompts and ChatGPT conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com\/cart\/add?product_id=241638&amp;method_id=263870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Order a recording of the presentation and handout for $18<\/strong><\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Full-Text Search at FamilySearch <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>comments:<br> <strong>&#8220;really enjoyed the presentation&#8221;<\/strong> &nbsp; <br><strong>&#8220;shouldn&#8217;t have been searching<\/strong> <strong>when you were talking&#8221;<\/strong> &nbsp; <br><br><strong>Learn clever search techniques!<\/strong> &nbsp; <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><br>We&#8217;re excited to offer this&nbsp;<strong><em>completely new (September 2025) and revised presentation<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;on the full-text searching at&nbsp;<em>FamilySearch<\/em>. We&#8217;ve redesigned our presentation as this functionality continues to change. And&#8230;we&#8217;re adding an extensive handout complete with forms to help you find more people.<br><br>Your purchase includes:<br><strong>A two-hour presentation<\/strong>&nbsp;you can view as often as you want.<br><strong>Extensive<\/strong>&nbsp;handout with charts and forms to help organize your searches. Charts and forms sent as separate files you can edit and customize and not as a locked PDF you have to re-create yourself as a new document.<br>What we will be doing:<br><strong>Determining what is in Full-Text Search\u2014<\/strong>what you can access at home and what you will have to be in a FamilySearch facility or affiliate to access.<br><strong>Seeing How AI transcriptions are different<\/strong>\u2014they aren\u2019t like the transcriptions made by humans. That can change your approach.<br><strong>Remembering that Full-Text means every word<\/strong>\u2014approaches need to differ as we aren\u2019t looking up a name in an index any more.<br><strong>Determining who<\/strong>&nbsp;is in the record. We aren\u2019t just searching for the main person like we did with traditional indexes. We\u2019ll discuss how to determine who could be mentioned in a record.<br><strong>Determining how to search.<\/strong>&nbsp;There are a variety of ways to search and filter results. We\u2019ll see how each one works to help determine the best strategy.<br><strong>Creating search strategies<\/strong>\u2014how full-text search changes your approach and why just dumping terms in search boxes is not always effective.<br><strong>Determing what you found.&nbsp;<\/strong>The interface does not make this clear. We will show you how to get beyond the confusion.<br><strong>Problem-solving<\/strong>\u2014what to do when you cannot find something you want.<br><strong>Demonstrating practical new examples<\/strong>\u2014completely new people and families from our previous presentations.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com\/cart\/add?product_id=246272&amp;method_id=268990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Order today for immediate download for only $40.<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More AI for Genealogy Order recording In response to requests from attendees, we\u2019re having a follow-up to our recent webinar on using AI for genealogy. We will cover: As always, our presentation will be practical and easy-to-follow. We assume you already know basic genealogy terminology and methodology. 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