More AI for Genealogy

with Michael John Neill

of Genealogy Tip of the Day

Some of you wanted more about AI

So we're bringing it

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In response to requests from attendees, we’re having a follow-up to our recent webinar on using AI for genealogy. We will build on that session in this new presentation on 17 November 2024 at 7:30 pm central time (order a recording if you can’t attend live).

We will cover:

• More detailed prompt suggestions and a discussion of using AI chat for genealogy problem-solving and analysis—while keeping in mind the limitations of AI.
• Non-English examples of transcription and translation.
• Short case studies based on actual documents and transcriptions.

As always, our presentation will be practical and easy-to-follow. We assume you already know basic genealogy terminology and methodology. Enhancing  sound genealogy practices is our prime directive, not being easily impressed by every new bit of shiny technology.

Detailed handout included so listeners can focus on understanding and not on taking notes. 

Listening and Viewing Options:

• live on 17 November 2024 at 7:30 pm central time
• pre-order a recording to delivered after presentation

Live attendees should have their attendants link by 15 November 2024.

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Using AI’s ChatGPT for Genealogy (Responsibly)

There'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.

We'll avoid the hype and leave that to others!

with Michael John Neill

We’ll 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.

There’s more to using AI than simply having it generate a family history. That’s not what will we do in this presentation.

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.

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.

We will see how to formulate questions to have the Chatbot perform mundane tedious tasks, create summaries and tables, serve as an online genealogical assistant, and more.

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.

We’ll show numerous examples of prompts and ChatGPT conversations.

• Order a recording of the presentation and handout for $18--intro price!