Three new webinars

Join Michael for one or more of these three exciting presentations!

We will focus on a genealogically responsible way of using Perplexity.ai. This site can be your research assistant, and we’ll walk through personal aand practical examples from Michael’s own research

We will not be discussing creating images or fiction in this presentation.

Our focus will be on responsibly using Perplexity as a virtual research helper.

We will look at:

·        What Perplexity is.

·        Genealogy document and problem analysis.

·        Image searching.

·        Transcribing documents and records.

·        The free version of Perplexity



Live on 9 June 2025 at 8:00 pm eastern.

This is an AI chat different from the others—join us and find out! Perplexity includes online sources for information in its responses and is much less likely to make up data or hallucinate. It will give you sources---which will need to be evaluated, but at least you’ll have them. Perplexity is more like AI combined with a search engine.

Registration for the live session is limited!

Options

·        Attend live for $18. Handout included—via Zoom.

·        Pre-order recording and handout for $11 (sale price!)

Live on 11 June 2025 at 8:00 pm eastern.

This session will provide a brief overview of what is on Fold3.com (mainly military records, but will instead focus on how to navigate material on the site and the site itself, how to browse images, how to perform searches, downloading of images, and problem-solving strategies.

Options:

·        Attend live for $18. Handout included—via Zoom.

·        Pre-order recording and handout for $11 (sale price!)

Live on 10 June 2025 at 8:00 pm eastern.

This site allows searchers to perform a variety of searches for individuals who received federal land patents. This session will briefly discuss what federal land patents are and how they were obtained. The bulk of the presentation will focus on how to query the database, what various search options are offered, performing geographic searches, interacting with and downloading images. The session will conclude with a discussion of non-patent images on the site including tract and survey books.

Options:

·        Attend live for $18. Handout included—via Zoom.

·        Pre-order recording and handout for $11 (sale price!)

All presentations are made by Michael John Neill. Michael has been an active genealogical researcher, writer, and lecturer for over thirty years. He has sponsored research trips to Salt Lake City, Ft. Wayne, and RIchmond and gives lectures on a variety of topics.