Janis Parkison Rodriguez, President & Acting Program Director of the ROOTS Users Group of Arlington, Virginia (Arlington RUG) sent out a notice about an upcoming meeting of the group that should interest genealogists who want to try out the latest and greatest technology when it comes to genealogy research. The meeting will get into using AI applications to help you with your research. Their past presentations/meetings are viewable on their website.
Note: you do NOT have to be a member to attend, Zoom info at the bottom of the post.
Session Information:
- 9:00 – ~10:15 Session I – Janis Rodriguez & Steve Ulrich host
- “Leftovers from September’s Artificial Intelligence sessions: More Personal Experiences Exploring AI Applications to Family History”
- and … Your Experiences using AI for Family History
We will finish up with some more of personal experiences we did not get to at the September meeting. Also, we hope that some of our attendees will be willing to share their experiences, too. Andrew Redfern presented a challenge to us. (See below and October’s Newsletter) We challenge you to accept one of these homework assignments and then share or discuss your results at Saturday’s meeting.
The challenge mentioned above is this:
1. Sign up for aa account with Chat GPT, Claude, etc.
2. Write a biography using research you have collated about an ancestor
3. Create a table of some information relating to a group of ancestors e.g. birth dates, location, etc.
4. Create a timeline of an ancestor from a passage you’ve written about your ancestor
5. Extract data from a newspaper article such as names, places and relationships
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7201264284?pwd=WUF6TmFoSlJoWkViWG9Dd1BHUmJxQT09&omn=83710071569
Meeting ID: 720 126 4284
Passcode: 789198912
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