This AI SIG session is worth watching if you have ever felt stuck between a genealogy puzzle and not knowing what to do next. Instead of treating AI like a magic answer machine, the meeting shows how to use it
20260304 – AI SIG Meeting Handout
The AI Special Interest Group empowers NWSGS members to confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their genealogical practice through collaborative exploration and shared learning. We investigate both general-purpose AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity) and genealogy-focused applications (Transkribus, FamilySearch Labs),
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20251206 – Dawn Carlile – Using FamilySearch’s Newest Full Text Options V2
If you haven’t used the Full-Text Search tools at FamilySearch, you are missing out on records about your ancestors. No longer in the experimental stage, it can be used on many of the record images on FamilySearch, saving researchers many
20251206 – Dawn Carlile – Using FamilySearch’s Newest Full Text Options
If you haven’t used the Full-Text Search tools at FamilySearch, you are missing out on records about your ancestors. No longer in the experimental stage, it can be used on many of the record images on FamilySearch, saving researchers many
20250405 Lisa Alzo – No Easy Button: Using Immersion Genealogy to Understand Your Ancestors
Presentation Description: Family history is so much more than just names, dates, and places, or boxes, lines, and charts. For 21st century genealogists, it is easy to limit our research to the documents or other facts we find online, or
20250301 – Paul Milner – Pre 1837 British and Irish Research
Presentation Description: The beginning of Civil Registration in England on 01 July 1837, together with the first national census which recorded individual names in 1841, greatly simplifies how one searches for information about ancestors in England. Prior to 1837, it
20250201 – Rick Sayre – Researching Washington D.C. Records and Resources from Home
Presentation Description: Learn how to effectively access key genealogical resources located in the Washington, DC area. Key repositories increasingly offer extensive online access to key genealogical information found in their holdings. Discussion will include the Library of Congress, the DAR,
A guide to creating the perfect prompt
One of the most widely used prompt engineering cheat sheets. In this article, I will provide a short intro to each chapter in the cheat sheet along with prompt snippets for each example. Now that SOTA LLMs can answer increasingly
20250104 – Dr. Blaine Bettinger – 10 Generative AI Prompts Every Genealogist Needs to Know
Presentation Description: The “prompt” is perhaps the most important aspect of generative artificial intelligence (AI). The prompt is how we direct AI tools to give us the output we desire. However, forming these prompts can be challenging and is rarely